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[Article] You Can’t Spell IoT Without IT: Three Considerations For CIOs As Their Companies Embark On IoT Projects By Subbu Iyer

Otherwise, it's just 'of'.

Article here.

Read the responses in depth at the source, I wanted to talk about;

Legacy WANs weren’t designed for IoT

Yep. Tell a hub that a laptop from 2017 is going to connect to it.

First, why do you have a hub in a working environment?

You've taken baselines - Can your network handle the variety of traffic that might arrive?

Your WAN is going to have to do some serious upgrading depending on what you plan to do.


  • What kind of new end-user devices are you looking to use?
  • What do they do?
  • Let's see your baseline for traffic and compare it with activity these devices have done on another network during a non-peak hour.
You need to plan and be prepared to adjust for unwanted activity, 

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