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Perfect Pairings: A Guide on Choosing the Best Fibre to the Desk Solution

It is well known that Fibre to the Desk (FTTD) offers benefits superior to transmission over copper cabling (A refresher if you need one), and there are many options for enabling FTTD, but there is no...

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Ways to Remotely Access Your Clients Network

It’s a common request in your line of work: A call comes in from your customer requesting help with a network problem. Your team isn’t on-site, so you can’t remote into their network because the...

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Maximizing Artificial Intelligence for Voice Activation and Control

Tips for Maximizing Lantronix SOMs for Battery Management, Password Security and More  By: Victor Gonzalez, Senior Director of Engineering at Lantronix Inc.  The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is...

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Remote Environment Management Helps Reduce Security Costs of On-Site Visitors...

Increase Security, Reduce Footfall, Save Money, Decrease Risk and Increase Customer Satisfaction  According to Research and Markets, the global data center market is expected to grow at a compound...

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Delivering on the Promise of Smart Cities With IoT Technologies

How Lantronix Supported Flock Safety in Creating a Community Safety Solution According to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) October 2020 “FutureScape” report, smart city investment by...

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Transition Networks Now Lantronix

Same People. Same Products. More to Offer. FOX3 Tracker Together, we provide customers and partners with innovative solutions and products to help them realize their network’s full potential. Our...

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Jumpstart Your Embedded Product Design with Lantronix IoT Support for...

By Zeenath Venkata Hastened by the global pandemic, Internet of Things (IoT) cloud computing has become the new normal. As a result, enterprise adoption of Microsoft Azure is exploding. According to...

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Open-Q 610 On-Device AI Demo

By: Russell Fretenburg, Technical Product Manager, Lantronix, Inc. Lantronix recently introduced the Open-Q 610 µSOM and Development Kit, based on the Qualcomm QCS610 system-on-chip (SoC), and this...

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Why IoT and Smart City Technology Will Make It Possible to Sustain Growth...

By: Xavier DupontExcerpt on this blog have been published in the December issue of Network Europe  According to the United Nations, the world’s urban population is expected to double by 2050, reaching...

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Customer Service in the Tech World – The Year Ahead 2022

Lantronix’s Award-Winning Customer Service Delivers Fast, Accurate Solutions  As we look further into 2022 and the trends shaping customer service and the customer experience (CX) in the Tech World,...

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Extending Your Network or Adding Devices Without Re-cabling

Adding wireless access points in existing networks or upgrading security and surveillance networks to incorporate IP cameras can present challenges. Often the precise location where you need service is...

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Net2Edge’s New Home

Welcome to the new home of Net2Edge.com. We are pleased to be joining our friends and colleagues from Transition Networks to offer our customers a better online experience. We hope that along with our...

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Transition Networks PoE Switches with DMS Integrate with Siemens Siveillance™...

The integration of our switches with Device Management System (DMS) into the Siemens Siveillance™ Video Client provides time-saving features for security integrators and network administrators. DMS...

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The ION Media Conversion Platform

The ION Media Conversion Platform integrates copper and different types of fiber to extend networks, optimizes existing infrastructure, and provides simple navigation of connected network interfaces...

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Turning Everyday Street Lights into Smart City Superstars

Cities can leverage existing real estate like lampposts to become the IoT magnet for many city services not offered today.LED street lamps with energy-saving technologySmart street lights may have...

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uLAN Best Practices

Why This New Network is Needed for Smart Buildings The advancements in smart building technology are exciting. Sensors and systems enable processes that deliver more efficient and pleasant working...

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Transition Networks Partners with Verint for Cost-Efficient Security Platform

Transition Networks’ Smart Managed PoE+ Enterprise Switches with built-in Device Management System (DMS) software simplifies security network maintenance and management. When integrated with Verint’s...

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What is PoE Lighting?

It’s time for your lighting to do more than switch on or off. Did you know your building lighting can provide benefits beyond just light? Smart lighting use Power over Ethernet (PoE) to operate...

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Transition Networks PoE Switches with DMS Integrate with Milestone XProtect...

The integration of our switches with Device Management System (DMS) into Milestone’s XProtect VMS Smart Client provides time-saving features for security integrators and network administrators. DMS...

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Our Open-Q 5165RB SOM and G520 Gateway in Action

Vision Intelligence At Embedded World 2022, we are displaying the Open-Q 5165RB development board powered by Qualcomm QRB5165 for 360-degree facial recognition and real-time facial detection. These...

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7 IoT Security Practices for IoT Projects!

7 IoT Security Practices you Must Consider for your IoT Projects – How Do Your Projects Stack UP? IoT Security is always a concern when developing your IoT projects and Network World’s Bob Violino has...

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Feature Spotlight: Virtual Ports

Of the many profound and metaphysical questions plaguing Philosophy majors today, none may be so important as why are hotdogs sold in packs of 10 and hotdog buns in packs of 8, followed closely by why...

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Feature Spotlight: Power Control

Do you think it was Thomas Edison or Nikola Tesla who first said have you tried turning it off and back on again? Did they know in ancient times that one of the most tried and true troubleshooting...

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Feature Spotlight: Surgical Rollback

I remember exactly where I was the day I first learned about Surgical Rollback. I was just out of college, recently promoted to Network Analyst, and trying above all else to simply not break the Texas...

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Cellular out-of-band: 4 things to consider

Lantronix has been a leader in cellular out-of-band management systems for over a decade. When it comes to running out-of-band over cellular, we’ve literally been there and done that — experiences that...

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When You Have Too Much To Do, Automation Is Everything

There’s a quote that gets attributed to Bill Gates a lot but was likely said by Clarence Bleicher in 1947 that goes “If you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy,...

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If It Has a Serial Port, We Can Manage It

“ One of the most common questions we get from new and existing customers is whether the Uplogix Local Manager can support an XYZ SynergyDynamics  Router Model 390000. Our reply is always the same: if...

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Network Device Monitoring, Now in Stunning High-Resolution

“ It was 8th century French pastry chef Adolfus Xiang who famously said, “A watched pot never boils.” Today, the same could be said for network devices and their interfaces, which only seem to fail...

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There When You Need It: Testing Your Out-of-Band Connection

“ It always happens the same way. You spend the time deploying your out-of-band solution, you configure all the settings, and you test it once to make sure it works. Then you forget about it. And why...

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Using Port Forwarding to Route the Unroutable

On November 25, 2019, the regional Internet registry for Europe announced that it had made its “final /22 IPv4 allocation from the last remaining addresses in our available pool” and that “[w]e have...

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Secure access + more for your Internet of [insert industry here] Things

The request from a customer was relatively simple: out-of-band access to connect through Uplogix to a medical device to securely move data from the machine to a database. While it might not be the most...

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Set it and Forget It: Why the Best Out-of-Band Solution is the One You Don’t...

“ Twenty years ago, out-of-band solutions were just starting to move past the era of plugging a phone line into a Cisco 2811 with octopus cables and hoping it answered when you called it. Today, we not...

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Simple Yet Powerful: How Granular Authorization Keeps Your Network Secure

If the movie Wargames taught us anything, it’s that you shouldn’t leave your computer systems so wide open that even Ferris Bueller can just walk right in. Nowhere is that more important than in a...

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Feature Spotlight: Unencrypted SMS-initiated Automation

“ When you design for automation, you spend a lot of time looking at edge cases. 95% of the time, a standard approach will work, but for that other five percent, we need to get more creative. That’s...

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The Benefits of Having an Out-of-Band Network Infrastructure

Today IT devices are deployed in diverse environments which means managing these devices can be tricky. Regardless of the size or industry, there is always an urgent need to ensure that critical IT...

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Uplogix Now Lantronix

Same People. More Products. More Solutions.Together, we provide customers with innovative solutions and support to help them realize their network’s full potential. Uplogix’s complementary high-end...

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Is Your Website Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Looking back, it’s funny to think about how much effort we used to put into keeping the internal network up back in the day, when all of our customer interaction was funneling through a single Linux...

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“It’s my data, and I’ll cry if you lose it.”

A lot of personal data is gathered on each and every one of us, and it is routinely traded, sold and otherwise shared.  There isn’t a lot we can do to stop it but it would sure be comforting to know...

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The Importance of Ethernet Switches in Today’s IoT Industry

Ethernet is the most common Local Area Network (LAN) standard in the world. It has evolved dramatically since its first application and today is the standard protocol for IP-based networks and the...

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Out-of-Band Management: What, Why, Where and When?

A 2023 Update For the last seven years, Lantronix has been writing in this blog about out-of-band management (OOBM), sharing observations to help network admins and managers keep up with the latest...

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Enterprise-grade vs Hardened-grade Ethernet Switches — which is best for your...

Ethernet switches primarily fit into two categories: enterprise grade and hardened grade.Enterprise-grade switches are typically rack-mounted or desktop switches, depending on the number of ports....

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One Machine, Many Different Views

Take a moment and think about the many different interactions each of us has in our daily lives: as a parent, child, sibling, colleague, neighbor, significant other, manager, cousin, friend, etc. Each...

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The Best-Kept Secret in Video Security and Surveillance Applications: PoE...

Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches are great for video security and surveillance applications because you only need the Ethernet cable between the switch and the camera. This reduces installation time...

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Reducing Unscheduled Downtime: Fighting for Each Additional ‘Nine’ of Network...

Reconciling network management strategies with business needs involves balancing uptime service level requirements, security risk, and cost. The ROI of applying advanced out-of-band solutions and...

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When there’s no time to be thunderstruck… are you ready for the next...

Every time there is a major news event about a global IT outage like this weekend’s Crowdstrike event, my wife asks if Lantronix could have prevented it. The answer is usually, “probably not?” But...

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Benefits of Power-over-Ethernet

Benefits of Power over Ethernet Power over Ethernet (PoE) is a system that uses standard Ethernet data cabling to send DC electrical power along with data to remote IP devices, such as cameras,...

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IoT in Retail Industry Includes Analysis of Shopping Behaviors

By: Caitlin Gittins, IoT Insider IoT in the retail industry relates to a whole host of opportunities brought by leveraging IoT technologies. A network of interconnected devices, from trackers to smart...

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Ready to Serve

Lantronix may not be part of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Space Force, but we serve our country in a different way – by servicing those who are responsible for communication...

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NSA & CISA Recommend Out-of-Band Network Management for Greater Network...

While October is known as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re all aware that every day is Cybersecurity Day. With this in mind, here is a review of guidelines from top federal cybersecurity agencies...

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Combatting the Rise of Ransomware Attacks in Healthcare

There was a time when the network admins we worked with in healthcare settings were most concerned about meeting requirements for HIPAA. Our out-of-band management customers needed to secure their...

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