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Sterling Christian writes exclusively for PC Wholesale. Sterling writes about the use, operation and upgrading of Cisco and Sun Microsystems devices. PC Wholesale carries Cisco Approved memory, Sun original memory, & third-party memory for all Sun and Cisco devices. www.pc-wholesale.com.

What to Know Before Upgrading Your Cisco Router

Expanding the capacity of any high bandwidth network is always an involved process. The actual cost of upgrade hardware and the task of physically installing RAM memory into your Cisco routers' expansion slots is simple enough, but most high-capacity data networks serve production environments which demand fault-tolerance and as near... Read

By: Sterling Christian | 20/09/2008 | Computers

Cisco Memory Types and Their Function

Most Cisco networking hardware, with the exception of the Cisco PIX firewall series, ships with the Cisco Inter-network Operating System, or IOS. IOS hardware includes network routers, switches, and other similar devices. The basic design of most of this hardware controls the types of memory a device is equipped with,... Read

By: Sterling Christian | 20/09/2008 | Computers

Transceivers 101

A transceiver serves two function; it is both a receiver and a transmitter which are combined together to form one unit and operate using the same circuitry. In some cases the circuitry will not be shared; in this case it is called a transmitter-receiver which was originally invented in the... Read

By: Sterling Christian | 20/09/2008 | Computers

Upgrading Your Cisco Memory

Almost all advanced Cisco routers and switches are equipped with the Cisco proprietary operating systems called the IOS (Internetwork Operating System). Cisco PIX firewalls have a special operating system, the PIX Finesse OS. In some versions of the IOS, there is a MIB (Management Information Base) module integrated into the IOS... Read

By: Sterling Christian | 08/09/2008 | Computers