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A core part of Cisco’s Internet of Everything narrative is the Internet of Things—what we view as the latest wave of the Internet – connecting physical objects in ways that help us analyze and control our environment to provide better safety, comfort, and efficiency.

This is not a new concept—RFID was introduced in the late 1960s—but it has reached a tipping point for IP connectivity, driven by advances in sensor technology, IPv6, and electronics miniaturization.

Amid this move toward IP, Cisco is continuing its long-standing participation in OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) by participating in the effort to produce an MQTT standard. Continue reading “Beyond MQTT: A Cisco View on IoT Protocols”



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Paul Duffy

Senior Technical Leader

Enterprise CTO Team / Industrial IoT

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simloBy Steve Simlo, IPv6 Product Manager, Cisco Network Operating Systems Technology Group

As IPv6 gains more and more ground within the Internet we are starting to see recognition amongst the wider community that technologies such as Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) have some significant drawbacks from a service and scalability standpoint. Some of the issues were recently highlighted by a major carrier which actually issued a public “opt out” option to their customers if needed.

However, there are some applications such as online gaming, VPN access, FTP service, surveillance cameras, etc., that may not work when broadband service is provided via a CGN. For our customers utilizing these types of applications, we provide the ability to “opt out” of CGN Continue reading “Ignore the Mouse – Get Your IPv6 Learn On at Cisco Live Orlando 2013”



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Prologue
The Compressed Pcap Packet Indexing Program (cppip) is a tool to enable extremely fast extraction of packets from a compressed pcap file. This tool is intended for security and network folk who work with large pcap files. This article provides a complete discussion of the tool and is split into two parts. The first part, intended for end-users, will explain in detail how to build and use the tool. The second part, intended for C programmers, covers cppip’s inner workings.

Introduction
Cppip is a command line utility designed to make packet extraction from large pcap files extremely fast — without having to uncompress the entire file. It relies on pcap files that have been compressed using the freely available bgzip, a backward compatible gzip utility that boasts a special additive — the ability to quickly and cheaply uncompress specific regions of the file on the fly. You will find cppip quite useful if you work with large pcap files and have the need to extract one or more packets for subsequent inspection. As you’ll see, preparing your pcap files for use with cppip is a two step process of compressing the pcap file with bgzip and then indexing it with cppip. But before you can use cppip, you first have to install it. Continue reading “Tools of the Trade: The Compressed Pcap Packet Indexing Program”



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Register Now for Simplify the Network Infrastructure, 10am PST on May 1  (CLICK TO REGISTER)

Today we announced a new set of products related to 802.11ac and released the highly anticipated 802.11ac radio adaptive module for the 3600 access point. Cisco wants to help you stay ahead of the technology curve by providing innovative products and solutions that can arm you against the challenges of megatrends like BYOD.

In the first session of the Activate the IT Transformation with Cisco Unified Access series we examined the overall value of Cisco’s unified access approach with One Policy, One Management and One Network. The second session brought a deep dive understanding of how simplifying the network infrastructure can improve operational efficiency while at the same time increasing performance.

We’re continuing our Unified Access webinar series to discuss how our latest products can help you simplify your network infrastructure and better understand 802.11ac.   This exciting, tech-packed webinar is tomorrow May 1st 2013 at 10am PSTContinue reading “Don’t Miss Simplified Network Infrastructure & 802.11ac Tomorrow!”



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Brian Robertson

Product Marketing Manager

CMO EMM Mobility Solutions

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As President of Fiber to the Home Council Asia-Pacific, I am really excited about the forthcoming annual conference to be held in May 19-21, 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand.

Let’s look at some of the compelling facts for the region:

By year-end 2016, nine economies are forecasted to reach FTTx household penetration rates of 20% or higher: Continue reading “Gotta Love Fiber!”



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Monique Morrow

CTO-Evangelist

New Frontiers Development and Engineering

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If you’re headed to Interop Las Vegas, there are a few things you won’t want to miss. Much like the Keynote (video above) we have a lot of fun and useful things planned

When you walk into the exhibition hall, you’ll see Cisco’s booth (1327)*, front and center.  This is our home-base and where a lot of activity will happen.  Stop by to check out live demos, to get your questions answered, to hear our technology experts give quick theater presentations, and to check out our NOC.  If you use Cisco gear (and I’ll assume that you do if you’re reading this blog) you’ll want to stop by to get the latest updates.

We’re trying something new – we’ll have a working NOC in our booth. Continue reading “Going to Interop? Keynote Preview With This Fun Video”



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Lauren Friedman

Marketing Manager

Enterprise Networks

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On April 17th, 2013 Cisco announced SPECjbb2013 results with the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivering top SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM 2-socket x 86 performances.

Cisco’s results on the SPECjbb®2013 benchmark—41,954 maximum Java operations (max-jOPS) and 16,545 critical Java operations (critical-jOPS)— demonstrate that the Cisco UCS® C220 M3 Rack Server and Oracle Java Standard Edition (SE) 7u11 can provide an optimized platform for Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) and deliver accelerated response to throughput-intensive Java applications.

Exercising new Java SE 7 features, the SPECjbb2013 benchmark stresses the CPU processing, memory speed, and chip set performance capabilities of the underlying platform. The result consists of two metrics: the full capacity throughput (max-jOPS) and the critical throughput (critical-jOPS) under service-level agreements (SLAs), ranging from 10 to 500 milliseconds (ms) from request issuance to receipt of a response indicating operation completion.

 To compete in the SPECjbb2013 MultiJVM category, the tested configuration consisted of a controller and two groups each consisting of a transaction injector and back-end, all running across multiple JVM instances within a single operating system image. The JVM instances ran on a Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server. Two 2.90-GHz, 8-core Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2690 CPUs powered the Cisco UCS C220 M3 server running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 operating system and Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server Virtual Machine Version 1.7.0_11. The Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server and Oracle Java SE 7u11 delivered fast response times and high transaction throughput on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark. The system supported 41,954 max‑jOPS and 16,545 critical-jOPS,  representing  the best critical-jOPS 2-socket x86 result in the MultiJVM category

 The “Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server Delivers Industry-Leading SPECjbb2013 Results” Performance Brief provides additional benchmark configuration details. Official Benchmark Certification is available at the SPECjbb2013 official web site at: http://www.spec.org/jbb2013/results/res2013q2/jbb2013-20130403-00028.html.

 
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 Cisco UCS based SPECjbb2013 benchmark results show that the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivers excellent scalability to JVMs and applications. SPECjbb2013 benchmark results show that the Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server delivers more throughput within specified time frames than solutions from other vendors.

Cisco UCS delivers the scalability needed for large-scale Java application deployments. The dramatic reduction in the number of physical components results in a system that makes effective use of limited space, power, and cooling by deploying less infrastructure to perform more, work. Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Servers can operate in standalone deployments or be managed as part of the Cisco Unified Computing System for increased IT operation efficiency. For additional information on Cisco UCS and Cisco UCS solutions please visit www.cisco.com/go/ucs

 Girish Kulkarni

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Unified Computing System 

gikulkar@cisco.com

SPEC and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The performance results described are derived from detailed benchmark results available at http://www.speck.org/ as of April 22, 2013.



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Girish Kulkarni

Senior Marketing Manager

Data Center & Virtualization Marketing

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Providing the Freedom Employees Need, Without Compromises

BYOD continues to get headlines, as organizations look for ways to help users work the way they want, when and where they want—with the device they choose. Ultimately, mobility is more than BYOD. At Cisco, we believe work is a verb, not a place you go to – we provide the flexibility for our employees to work remote.

Sheila Jordan (@CiscoSheila), Cisco’s Senior Vice President of IT Collaboration, pointed out in this piece in Computerworld that cost savings are important, but the real benefits are “fostering collaboration, building employee morale, and creating an environment that is attractive to millennials.” Continue reading “Rethinking the Mobile Workplace with BYOD”



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 “All grown-ups were once children –though few of them remember it.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

Recently, I attended one of my favorite events – the EG conference in Monterey, California. Speakers ranged from musicians to rocket scientists to pickpockets and everything in between. Embracing the theme of “everything is learning, learning is everything,” the presenters encouraged us to embrace our inner child’s imagination and curiosity. Amanda Hill, CBO of BBC Earth was a particular inspiration. She reminded me of many things that we here at Cisco are striving to achieve, especially as we reimagine the Internet of Everything (IoE), a world in which everything is connected.

Continue reading “Innovation: Turning Childhood Dreams into Today’s Reality”