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Entelec 2014

 

Entelec info 2014Look out for Cisco at the upcoming presence at ENTELEC 2014. We’ll have both Exhibition space with demonstrations and a speaking slot.

ENTELEC is the Energy Telecommunications and Electrical Association focusing on communications and control technologies used in Oil & Gas and Electric Utility companies.

The ENTELEC 2014 Conference & Expo runs from May 20 – to May 22, 2014, and this spring conference is being held in the George R Brown Convention Center in Houston Texas, one of the US major Oil and Gas centers.

Here’s advance warning of the Cisco presentation and booth.

Thursday, May 22, 2014, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.:

Collaboration in O&G Operations: A Study into E&P Operational Behavior

Cisco, Room 332B

And Exhibition details:

Cisco Systems, Inc.  Stand 231

Duarte 1 2-to-1-Ratio-smallCollaboration in Oil and Gas Operations is far more than just people using video and communications tools to talk to each other. With the advent of the Internet of Everything (IoE) that involves People, Process, Data and Things, operations staff at all levels of the organization expect to be able to collaborate with experts, supervisors, field workers and third parties using real time data feeds from videos and sensors, and have visibility to M2M communications, as well as to advanced modelling and analytical  tools, whilst collaborating! Cisco is already well known for its field virtual expert enabling collaboration technologies (more info here: Cisco Field Expert Collaboration for Oil and Gas At-A-Glance PDF – 1.44 MB). With that you can get immediate, face-to-face access to experts with on-demand video and communications tools. Now we’re taking it one step further… Continue reading “Cisco at ENTELEC – Heads up on what you’ll see”



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Peter Granger

Senior Sales Transformation Manager

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Mobile communications today is virtually indistinguishable from the first mobile call that was made four decades ago.  We have gone from monster handsets to pocket-sized portable computers.  Mobile communications has become an essential part of our daily lives.  For mobile operators and other companies operating in this space it is essential to know the facts about the mobile market and how the mobile user is changing.

The recent video by Cisco “Understanding the Changing Mobile User” provides key insights for SPs into how mobile users are using LTE, Wi-Fi and their changing mobile behavior.  The video identifies options for operators to be successful in the changing mobile world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaQI-rNVXTI

The Continue reading “Understanding the Changing Mobile User”



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Stuart Taylor

Director

Service Provider Transformation Group

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We live in amazing times, ask anyone who ever had to look up a phone number in a phone book. In the past this was the only way you could find the number to your favorite restaurant if you wanted to make a reservation. Today, all we need to do is reach into our pocket or purse and grab our mobile device, open an application and in a few seconds (not minutes) we have the phone number. Not only that, but we can see the menu and make a reservation right from the device. Over time we have become dependent on carrying the world (both personal and professional) in our pocket. With mobility, we are always on, always connected: nothing—whether it’s your team’s latest score or that email from a vendor you need to send to your boss—is more than a quick search away.

What once seemed unfathomable, this way of always being connected is now commonplace. However, as the application developers sit and think of the next killer app, the IT team has to make sure the network can not only support this new app, but also assure the performance meets the higher and higher demands of new apps. This requires the network to be more application-aware. And the reality is that more applications that require higher network performance are coming at a faster rate. Add to it new devices that use these applications are becoming accessible to everyone. On top of that, the people that use these applications and devices are becoming more demanding in terms of reliability and experience. So what is an IT person to do?

“We were ahead of the times,” says Joseph Tufano, VP and CIO of St. John’s University. “But times have changed. You see it everywhere: for example, if you go to a basketball game on campus, and there’s a timeout, everybody is using their mobile devices.”

IT is always working to increase the wireless performance of the network. However, as more bandwidth becomes available, users increase their usage and consume that bandwidth. Continue reading “The Future of Wireless: Times are Changing Before Our Eyes”



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Brian Robertson

Product Marketing Manager

CMO EMM Mobility Solutions

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The recent OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability has shown that technology leaders must work together to secure the Internet’s critical infrastructure. That’s why Cisco is proud to be a founding supporter of the Linux Foundation initiative announced yesterday (April 24th).

The initiative will fund open source projects that are critical to core computing and Internet functions, and Cisco sees security technologies as a fundamental infrastructure component. The first project being considered for funding is OpenSSL. As a longtime contributor to open source and user, we’ve offered code and intellectual property to enhance OpenSSL. We’ve also provided patches and testing results to help address vulnerabilities. Today’s announcement takes that commitment a step further.

We are pleased to help form a critical mass of governance, funding, and focus that will support the output of open source communities like OpenSSL. By working together as an industry, we can expect greater security, stability, and robustness for components that are critical to the Internet.

For more Cisco-specific information on the Heartbleed vulnerability, please visit our event response page and Security Advisory. You may also be interested in our April 23 webinar titled, Heartbleed: Assessing and Mitigating Your Risk.



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Anthony Grieco

SVP & Chief Security & Trust Officer

Security and Trust Organization

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Hotel

Can you remember the last time you checked into a hotel that didn’t have wifi connectivity? Whether it’s for personal or business travel, guests increasingly expect to connect personal devices to their hotel’s wireless LAN. Network connectivity now plays a vital role when it comes to providing a great customer experience. Hotel Principe di Savoia tasked themselves to help ensure that guests enjoy open wireless access, regardless of device or location, while also looking to differentiate itself through technology innovation.

Hotel Principe di Savoia is a top luxury hotel located in the heart of Milan, Italy’s financial capital. This is a popular destination for business travelers and vacationers alike and has hosted an extensive list of international stars including Michael Jackson, Madonna, Leona Lewis, Lady Gaga, George Clooney, Woody Allen, David Beckham, and One Direction in recent years.

Continue reading “Midsize Hotel redefines luxury standards using the network”



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Sangita Patel

Cisco SD-WAN, Routing, Cloud Networking Marketing Lead

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Mark Twain once remarked, when asked about issues related to plagiarism, “Substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources;” and so it goes with online learning.  Is there such a thing as a new model for online learning?  After all, online learning has been done, in a number of mediums, ever since video was first able to be recorded and shared.

I believe, like with anything new, the new models for online learning are essentially all “second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from…outside sources…” But what may be the most striking fact about online learning is just how popular the term, and the practice, has become: when I searched on Google for “online learning,’ I received 2,570,000 responses. Wow!

Perhaps what is most intriguing about online learning models is the growing sophistication of their design, use of learning analytics in “closed loop fashion” (where a student’s online learning behavior is reviewed and, based on what worked and what didn’t, the class or lesson is iteratively improved to be more effective for the next learner) and the use of technology to scale with quality to meet the needs of many learners – be they in one class, one school, one state or beyond. Continue reading “#HigherEdThursdays: New Models for Online Learning”



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Ian Temple

No Longer at Cisco

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IP Video Surveillance is one of the most important applications for companies today since real time video surveillance and analytics can be used not only to protect the business, people and assets, but it can also be used as the eyes, ears and memory of the business to improve decision making and operations, significantly increasing the value of people, processes, data and things.

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Internet of Everything

So, if that doesn’t sway you, here are five good reasons to check out Network Design and Implementation for IP Video Surveillance (BRKEVT-2311)

  1. Your Business: IP Video Surveillance and related analytics applications are becoming the eyes and the ears of business.  Beyond safety and security, there are many business use cases and applications that can save your company valuable time, money, and resources.
  2. Your Network:  Similar to two way video, and streaming video, video surveillance is one of the most demanding applications on a network and you will be introduced to ways to meet this demand.
  3. Your Skills: Increased technical understanding IP Video Surveillance design and implementation is a great way enhance and add to your existing skills.
  4. Your Future: The Internet of Things has made many new solutions possible with fog computing, open application eco-system partners, and analytics with IP Video Surveillance that is a central component.
  5. Your Cisco Team – Cisco technical experts, Lionel Hunt and Jason Lee are delivering this together and have received rave reviews in past sessions.  If this isn’t one of your favorite sessions of Cisco Live, I’ll eat my hat.*

Continue reading “Attending Cisco Live US 2014? Five good reasons to check out BRKEVT-2311!”