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MikroTik hAP be3 Media Wi-Fi 7 router shown from the front on a white pedestal, angled to show the top vents and MikroTik logo.

MikroTik hAP be³ Media: Wi-Fi 7 Router and Media Hub

Carmen Tosun

Carmen Tosun 6 minute read

Product Review | Product Review | MikroTik | MikroTik

The MikroTik hAP be³ Media is a triple-band Wi-Fi 7 router that also works as a five-port 2.5GbE switch, a container host, local storage and Thread automation hardware. For a home lab, a small...

Cisco 2960-X & 2960-XR Replacement: C9200L and C9200

Cisco 2960-X & 2960-XR Replacement: C9200L and C9200

Ehsan Ghasisin

Ehsan Ghasisin 19 minute read

Comparison | Buying Guide | Expert Picks | Cisco

Cisco's documented replacement for the Cisco Catalyst 2960-X is the Catalyst 9200L, and the replacement for the Catalyst 2960-XR is the modular Catalyst 9200. Those are two different platforms, and most...

MikroTik hAP be lite A42G-HbeP dual-band Wi-Fi 7 access point from Network Devices.

MikroTik hAP be lite (A42G-HbeP) Review

Carmen Tosun

Carmen Tosun 8 minute read

Product Review | News | MikroTik

The MikroTik hAP be lite is a compact dual-band Wi-Fi 7 router and access point running RouterOS v7 at license level 4. If you are refreshing a small office, a branch site, or a fleet of low-density...

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Why AI Training Stalls: A GPU Cluster Troubleshooting Guide

Ehsan Ghasisin

Ehsan Ghasisin 14 minute read

Expert Picks

• AI training stalls are rarely caused by failing GPUs. The accelerators are usually idle, waiting on storage, the network fabric, or a single slow node. • Three symptom patterns cover most cases:...

MikroTik TG-LR82 and TG-LR92 LoRaWAN sensor tags for temperature, humidity, and motion monitoring.

MikroTik TG-LR82 & TG-LR92 LoRaWAN Sensor Tags

Carmen Tosun

Carmen Tosun 7 minute read

Comparison | Buying Guide | Product Review | News | MikroTik

The MikroTik TG-LR82 and TG-LR92 are two new configurable LoRaWAN sensor tags that measure temperature, humidity, and motion, then report that data over long distances to a MikroTik gateway. They are the...

Network Devices Campus Deals banner for K-12 and higher education, with an AXIS bullet camera, Fortinet FortiGate firewall, and Cisco 48-port switch on a desk in a school setting.

Education Network Hardware Deals for Schools | Campus Deals

Carmen Tosun

Carmen Tosun 9 minute read

Buying Guide | How To | Expert Picks

The best way for a school to upgrade before the next semester is to plan around the full campus network, not one device at a time. That means matching your firewalls, PoE switches, wireless access...

Cisco Licensing: DNA, Network Essentials vs. Network Advantage

Cisco Network Essentials vs. Advantage and DNA Licensing Explained

Govind Jha

Govind Jha 8 minute read

Comparison | Software/License/Protocol | Expert Picks | Cisco

On a modern Catalyst switch you are not choosing between four separate licenses. You buy two stacks at once. The perpetual Network license (Network Essentials or Network Advantage) sets the on-box...

GPU cluster networking for on-prem AI: Network Devices 2026 guide banner with a 3D AI processor chip

GPU Cluster Networking for On-Prem AI (2026 Guide)

Ehsan Ghasisin

Ehsan Ghasisin 13 minute read

How To | Expert Picks

GPU cluster networking is the scale-out network that connects GPU servers so distributed AI jobs can exchange gradients, synchronize model updates, access storage, and coordinate workloads across nodes....

MikroTik RB5009 router with a RouterOS v7 cloud and settings icon, illustrating how to run Docker containers on RouterOS v7.

MikroTik Containers: How to Run Docker on RouterOS v7

Humna Ghufran

Humna Ghufran 10 minute read

How To | MikroTik

Running Docker containers on a MikroTik router used to mean adding a Raspberry Pi or a small Linux box next to your rack. RouterOS v7 changed that. You can now deploy pihole, Cloudflare Tunnel, monitoring...

FortiGate 60F firewall paired with UniFi Pro Max switch, illustrating FortiGate UniFi VLAN setup for engineers.

FortiGate + UniFi VLAN Setup: Engineer's Field Guide

Humna Ghufran

Humna Ghufran 12 minute read

How To | Fortinet

If your FortiGate firewall and UniFi switches are not passing VLAN traffic correctly, the problem is almost always one of three things: a native VLAN mismatch on the trunk port, a missing FortiGate...

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