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Partner-Weekly-Rewind-v2Each week, we’ll highlight the most important Cisco partner news and stories, as well as point you to important, Cisco-related partner content you may have missed along the way.
Here’s what you might have missed this week:

Bruce and Edison Year End 2013Well here we are. We have reached the last Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind of the year. I won’t be back in this Weekly Rewind space until January 10, 2014.

I hope you are all spending time with friends and family during this holiday season, and that you are closing out 2013 in style.

As you can see here, Bruce Klein and Edison Peres wish you the best as we all head into the holiday season. Also, Cisco as a whole wants to thank you for your hard work and commitment. Continue reading “Cisco Partner Weekly Rewind – December 20, 2013”



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David Durham

Content Strategist

Channels

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Catalyst 6800 Shipping!I am pleased to announce that Catalyst 6807-XL and 6880-X are shipping now! Launched at Cisco Live Orlando this year, Cisco Catalyst 6800 Series Switches are programmable campus backbone switches optimized for 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet services. They are built for rich 10/40/100G services for BYOD & collaboration, support programmability and simplicity, and have the DNA of Catalyst 6500.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-igQ-UsUz8

Catalyst 6807-XL is a modular seven-slot switch with up to 880 gigs per slot and 11.4 terabits per second of switching capacity. Catalyst 6880-X is an 80 x 1/10G ports switch in compact form factor with advanced campus services. Catalyst 6800ia is a stackable access switch built for Catalyst Instant Access that started shipping in October.

Continue reading “Catalyst 6800 is shipping!”



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Shankar Chandrasekaran

Marketing Manager

GMCC Products and Solutions

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New innovations in mobility are transforming our daily lives and the safety of our loved ones. As the growth of mobility enables more wearable devices and applications that include GPS and Wi-Fi features, it is becoming increasingly easier for parents to remotely monitor their children’s safety while managing their own daily tasks.

Gartner predicts that wearable electronics will be a $10 billion industry. A network is equipped to appropriately scale devices on the network will be essential as the number and types of connected devices increase in an Internet of Everything world. Enterprise networks and service providers must work together to best manage bandwidth and costs associated with network speed.

Continue reading “Summary: Transforming Child Safety through Mobility”



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With the adoption of the Internet of Things and Internet of Everything, advances in mobility and next-generation Wi-Fi are driving faster speeds, higher signal quality and more reliable connectivity, but how are they changing the way we think about mobile security?

As more people connect to both wired and wireless networks via smart phones, tablets and laptops, security will continue to be a top concern. New Wi-Fi models, such as Beamforming and Wi-Fi Direct, are helping drive mobile devices to the faster, more secure 5GHz band, therefore offering secure ways to enable the Internet of Everything to connect more people, processes, data and things.

As mobility trends drive new expectations from networks, a strategic and architectural approach to secure mobility is essential, and next-generation Wi-Fi makes this possible.

Read the full What Next Generation Wi-Fi Could Mean for Secure Mobility blog to learn more.



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Every year, during Cisco’s Global Hunger Relief Campaign, employee teams across our campuses design and construct “cansculptures” —  pieces of art made entirely out of canned goods (which are later donated to a local food bank), to raise awareness about hunger and our annual giving back initiative.

This year, Cisco employees in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina, and at the Kanata R&D site in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, created cansculptures, while a chalkboard artist in Boxborough, Massachusetts created a Global Hunger Relief chalk wall in the cafe.

The Lawrenceville choo-choo train delivers a coal car of food for the hungry.
The Lawrenceville choo-choo train delivers a coal car of food for the hungry.

Continue reading “Cisco Employees Build Awareness about Hunger…Literally”



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As the year comes to a close, I wanted to revisit the economics of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

Cisco UCS has fantastic technology. Technology that technical decision makers are demanding. But what about business decision makers? The question for them is how will UCS save them money? Continue reading “Cisco UCS – Year End TCO Wrap-up”



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Bill Shields

Senior Marketing Manager

Product and Solutions Marketing Team

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The next wave of the Internet is driving the most disruptive change in history. Powered by mobile devices and apps—collaboration technologies that seamlessly allow people to work across multiple video and mobile devices—people are using technology to share ideas and opinions, and to reach the people and resources they need at any given moment. For the young Millennials who have grown up with the Internet, life flows seamlessly between the physical and virtual worlds. For professionals and executives, the Rolodex file of old has transformed into an online network for real-time, multi-person, topic-focused collaboration, not just as individuals but also in their enterprises.

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is accelerating this trend, creating real business value through the networked connection of people, process, data, and things. Earlier this year, Cisco® research identified $14.4 trillion in Value at Stake for the private sector that will be created or migrated among companies in the IoE economy over the next decade. Collaboration, video, and mobility will contribute 55 percent of this value—or $7.9 trillion in private sector Value at Stake by 2022.

Large global organizations are using collaboration, video, and mobility technologies to reach across time zones and organizational borders to spur innovation, solve complex problems, accelerate business processes, and reduce travel costs. These companies are investing in collaboration solutions because they can see direct benefits to their business—both in growing their top-line revenues and reducing costs to improve profitability.

In a recent survey by Forbes, more than 90 percent of respondents at companies that lead in collaboration technology adoption said that pervasive and extensive collaboration generates profound or disruptive innovation and enables efficient business processes. More than three-quarters of respondents agreed that collaboration accelerates business results and creates a competitive advantage.

Continue reading “Collaboration Without Borders: Saving Money, Helping Patients”



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Vishakha Radia

Managing Director

Cisco Consulting Services Collaboration, Video, and Mobility Practice

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Throughout 2013, I’ve had the opportunity to meet with services provider leaders from around the globe.  Whether they are large or small, focused on consumer services or business, or engaged in video or mobility, their ambitions are very much in line with our strategy:  To help them monetize and optimize their networks, while accelerating their ability to deliver their services.

  • Monetize:  From innovative new managed security services, to video, cloud and new machine driven (M2M) services to enable the Internet of Everything (IoE), there are a number of  new incremental revenue opportunities for service providers which sit at the very center of these trends estimated at over $2.9 Trillion over the next 10 years.
  • Optimize:  Delivery of these new services has to be less than the cost to deploy and operate them.  At the end of the day, the SP is a business, and, as all businesses, they need to be profitable.  New ways to deliver these services as economically as possible are key to their success.
  • Accelerate:  In this dynamic marketplace, service providers need to move quickly to seize these new opportunities.  Gone are the days when service rollouts can take months or quarters  Instead, they need to operate at “web speed” shortening the time to provision new services from months to minutes and do it in a cost-effective way. Continue reading “The Year Ahead in Networking”


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Pankaj Patel

Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer

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It’s only been six weeks since the breakthrough Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona, but the momentum to build web-enabled Smart Cities appears to be crescendoing toward a tipping point.

Just this past week, I participated in two highly energized Smart City forums in “old” cities that attracted executive-level leaders from government, vertical industries and technology providers. At both – one in Hamburg and the other in Amsterdam – I experienced first-hand the growing use of digital devices connected to networks that enhance the experience of citizens and businesses and also improve sustainability and performance.

Continue reading “The IoT Tipping Point in Old and New Smart Cities”



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Wim Elfrink

Executive Vice President, Industry Solutions & Chief

Globalisation Officer