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Over the last several years, government and law enforcement agencies have increasingly relied on mobile technology to engage citizens and help build a safer community. As we wrap up the public safety blog series, we’ll take a look at how mobility is driving the evolution of smart law enforcement and the role mobility will play in future efforts to serve and protect the public.

How Mobility is Driving Smart, Connected Law Enforcement

Like most industries, the history of law enforcement in America has an interesting story to tell, and it has come a long way thanks to advances in technology. Dating back to the early 1600s when unpaid volunteers kept the “night-watch,” today’s law enforcement officials are keeping communities safe through increased connections, new analytic capabilities and streaming information available at their fingertips. Continue reading “Public Safety Blog Series-Government Agencies and the Future of Mobility”



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Patrick Finn

No Longer at Cisco

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Today’s the day.

Today marks 10 years since the first commit in the original Open MPI CVS source code repository (which was later converted to Subversion):

$ svn log -r 1 http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi
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r1 | jsquyres | 2003-11-22 11:36:58 -0500 (Sat, 22 Nov 2003)
First commit
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Continue reading “10 Years of Open MPI”



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Jeff Squyres

The MPI Guy

UCS Platform Software

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Securing critical internet infrastructure is an ongoing challenge for operators that require collaboration across administrative boundaries. Last September, something exceptional happened in the small South American country of Ecuador: the entire local network operation community got together to be pioneers in securing the local Internet infrastructure by registering its networks in the RPKI system and implementing secure origin AS validation. Please visit my original blog post over on the Cisco Perspectives Blog to read more!

 



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Roque Gagliano

Technical Leader

Corporate Technology Group (CTG)

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Futurists have long envisioned a world where fabulous innovations transform our lives in mind-boggling ways. And while some of their ideas may remain far-fetched, the most exciting thing about their future is that so much of it is already here, today (flying cars notwithstanding).

Indeed, we are living in an age of unprecedented technological transformation, one that stands to eclipse even the first Internet boom. This next wave of change is being driven by a massive upsurge in connectivity, from 10 billion connected things today to 50 billion in 2020. The world may seem connected. But only 1 percent of the objects around you are endowed with smart connectivity. That is changing fast. Your car, your refrigerator, your parking space, the bridge you drive over, the shelves at the local retailer, and the supply chain that feeds them — all of these “dark assets” are being “lit up” with smart connectivity, altering our lives in profound ways.

Cisco calls this the Internet of Everything (IoE). We define IoE as the intelligent connection of people, process, data, and things. And, of course, the “people” element is paramount, since the whole point of technology is to create a better life experience for everyone.

At Cisco, we estimate the Value at Stake from this transformation to be $14.4 trillion for the private sector alone over the next 10 years, which represents an opportunity to increase global aggregate corporate profits by about 21 percent.

Cisco’s projections are based on deep research and analysis into potential use cases. But we are not the only ones sensing the potential impact of this game-changing, global transformation.

Continue reading “The Internet of Everything: Creating Better Experiences in Unimaginable Ways”



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Joseph M. Bradley

Global Vice President

Digital & IoT Advanced Services

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This is the first blog in a series about Cisco’s B2B Mobile strategy.

My smartphone is always on. I have just one for home and work.  It’s a part of me. I’m connected anywhere I go.

Mobile devices have reset our digital expectations.  We now expect quick, mobile-friendly content from a device that knows our location and what we’re looking for.

We’ve seen visits to cisco.com via mobile devices rising.  We needed and wanted to understand if visitors were finding what they needed.  Was there a unique mobile need? In the spring of 2013 we began our strategy with asking and listening.

Through in-person interviews, TelePresence, and online surveys, our loyal customers and advocates shared their mobile habits and preferences.  Soon patterns began to emerge.

  1. Many customers (BDM and TDM) are using three devices (smartphone, tablet and laptop) to access Cisco.com information.  Smartphones throughout the day.  Tablets mainly in the morning and evening.  Laptops primarily during work hours. Continue reading “Cisco’s Top 5 Mobile Customer Insights”


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Steve Lau

Senior Manager

Digital & Mobile Strategy

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How would you define ‘digital’?  As a communication channel or method?  A convenience enabler?  1s & 0s?  The inverse of analog? Bits versus atoms? Something we can no longer live without?

I am often asked ‘what is digital’? … ‘is it just our website, or broader than that?’ … ‘what exactly do you mean?’

So, I asked around to find out the word-on-the-street around ‘digital’.  I was impressed with how many different, nuanced, and insightful answers I was given on the definition — I had to put it all together into a video in order to capture the rich and diverse viewpoints.  In the video, you can learn what others think ‘digital’ is, as well as how we define it.

Watch the video to see how our colleagues and members of the public describe it; listen to hear if your definition is included; and let me know whether you’d add a different perspective.



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Mark Yolton

Vice President of Digital

Cisco Marketing

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How exciting it is when we see student gains in math that are consistent regardless of language, culture of origin, gender, and even learning disability!

As Peter Tavernise wrote this week in his blog post, it is even more exciting when we are able to support the learning models that have created such gains. Since 2004, Cisco has supported the MIND Research Institute to help them “move from an inherently limited client-server architecture to a fully cloud-based solution, increasing program quality, decreasing their costs, and allowing them to rapidly scale.”And ultimately to bring their Spatial-Temporal (ST) Math solution to every student on the planet. Continue reading “MIND Research Institute: Removing Barriers to Learning”



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Kerry Best

Marketing Manager

Public Sector Marketing

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Montpellier, France this week hosted the 35th edition of the DigiWorld Summit whose overall theme was “The digital gold mines”.

The event focused on digital innovation, especially its ability to create value with the emergence of new business models, and Cisco is a key member of the Digiworld Institute. Continue reading “Cisco CMX Enables the Future of ‘Digital Malls’ at the DIGIWORLD Summit 2013”



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Brendan O'Brien

Director Global Product Marketing

Connected Mobile Experiences

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To read the first part of the Network Matters blog series that focuses on how IT leaders can rely on a network to simplify the process of onboarding new mobile technology, click here. To read the second part of the series that discusses how an architectural approach to mobility is essential for the Future of Mobility, click here.

The ultimate goal of business mobility is to drive better productivity, heightened customer experience, and achieve a harmonious work/life balance.

As we’ve discussed over the course of this Network Matters blog series, businesses can support and shape further adoption of this key technology and capture its full benefits by implementing the right network solutions.

It’s also important to discuss how business mobility represents an opportunity for service providers (SPs). I’m going to address three of them:

  1. Consumerization of IT to offer cloud-delivered mobility services at lower cost-to-serve, as well as service delivery reinvention
  2. New emerging and monetizable business models to support consumer desire for unique service offerings
  3. Consolidation of the business mobility market to provide a more integrated, end-to-end value proposition

Service providers can deepen their enterprise customer relationships by addressing pain points and meeting new enterprise mobility challenges. According to a recent Cisco whitepaper, here are some ways SPs can embrace new mobile opportunities by focusing on comprehensive network solutions.

Continue reading “Mobile Network Opportunities for Service Providers”



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Kelly Ahuja

Senior Vice President

Service Provider Business, Products, and Solutions