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Ronald Bartels

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Driving SD-WAN adoption in South Africa

Fourways, South AfricaJoined April 2024

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Hub & Spoke | Best SD-WAN Blog on Earthhubandspoke.amastelek.com830 posts

About

Driving SD-WAN Adoption in South Africa

Available for

Network troubleshooting

Ronald Bartels's blogs

Hub & Spoke | Best SD-WAN Blog on Earthhubandspoke.amastelek.com830 posts

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hubandspoke.amastelek.com

Monitoring Active Directory Changes

In today's digital landscape, Active Directory (AD) serves as the backbone of identity and access management for countless organizations. As a centralized directory service from Microsoft, AD manages user accounts, groups, permissions, and resources ...

Feb 9·5 min read

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The Pitfalls of Inadequate Evidence in Networking Tickets

In network operations, troubleshooting issues is a daily reality. Whether it's a sudden outage, intermittent connectivity problems, or performance degradation, operators and support teams rely on tickets and escalations to document and resolve these ...

Dec 19, 2025·6 min read

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Revolutionizing Wide Area Networking

Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) represents a paradigm shift in how businesses manage and optimize their network connectivity. At its core, SD-WAN is a software overlay that sits atop a traditional telecommunications underlay, abstracti...

Dec 19, 2025·5 min read

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The Pitfalls of Process of Elimination in Troubleshooting

In the area of information technology, where systems grow increasingly complex, troubleshooting remains a critical skill. Yet, many IT professionals and hobbyists alike fall back on simplistic methods like the process of elimination, often leading to...

Nov 24, 2025·6 min read

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🚀 Ping SLA Monitor | Track Your Internet Uptime with Bash & Cron (99.99% SLA Dashboard!)

In 2025, with WFH, cloud everything, and AI eating bandwidth – downtime costs real money. But tracking it? Tedious. Grafana? Overkill. UptimeRobot? Meh for your SLA. Enter: My 50-line Bash Beast 🐉 Pings Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), Google (8.8.8.8), Quad9...

Nov 1, 2025·3 min read