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Kiran Ghodgaonkar

Senior Manager, Enterprise Marketing

Intent-based Networking Group

Kiran Ghodgaonkar is a member of the corporate marketing team at Cisco representing Cisco’s Enterprise Routing and Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Solutions. He works with enterprise and service providers to promote networking solutions that enable businesses to optimize and accelerate their migration to the cloud. Prior to Cisco Kiran held a variety of roles in customer service, engineering, product management and marketing at small and large technology companies in Silicon Valley.

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November 18, 2014

NETWORKING

Have questions about Hybrid WANs? Quiz the Cisco Geeks!

1 min read

These are just a few of the many questions that were asked on the webinar ‘How to Deliver Uncompromising Branch Application Performance‘: Would DMVPN also allow me to easily integrate networks using multiple MPLS providers? Is there a specific router model, IOS required for a PfRv3 branch controller and master controller? Can you explain how […]

November 11, 2014

NETWORKING

Need an Express Lane to the Cloud? Check out CSR over Direct Connect…

2 min read

Find yourself sitting in rush-hour traffic watching folks in the carpool lane whiz by? While it is often tempting to ‘cheat,’ it is against the law and you can end up with a rather expensive ticket. Alternatively, you could buy yourself a low emissions vehicle, and with an approved ‘clean air vehicle sticker’ plastered to […]

November 4, 2014

NETWORKING

Built for the Last Mile: The new 800M Series ISR

1 min read

At CiscoLive Cancun we are introducing a new addition to the 800 ISR family, the new 800M Series. What does the “M” stand for? The “M” stands for modular, as this is the first 800 series platform with pluggable modules that give flexibility in the field.  Why do you need flexibility? The 800M is designed […]

October 30, 2014

NETWORKING

Is your WAN Stressed Out? Take the Intelligent WAN Workout

1 min read

If you have been following Cisco Blogs, attending CiscoLive, or reading industry publications like Network World,  you’ve probably heard about Cisco’s Intelligent WAN or IWAN solution. For those of you that haven’t been in the loop, have more questions, or are just plain curious about the Intelligent WAN, we have a short webinar series kicking […]

October 13, 2014

NETWORKING

Cost Effective and Reliable Last Mile Connectivity in Developing Countries

1 min read

Last mile connectivity remains a challenge in developing countries. Businesses need a smart last mile solution that is also secure, reliable, provides investment protection and at the same time, keeps...

July 30, 2014

NETWORKING

Scaling NFV – The Performance Challenge

2 min read

In the second part of my blog series I want to cover one of the main concerns that Services Providers are facing as they explore moving to NFV and that is performance and scalability. Common concerns I hear center around latency, throughput, queuing capabilities and security. These are valid concerns since SP’s have service level […]

July 1, 2014

NETWORKING

Get On With It! Your Cloud is Waiting

2 min read

Sound familiar? We hear that term all the time. We hear it at home, we hear it at work, we keeping saying it to our elected officials. It’s a term often used when we are frustrated with progress. It doesn’t matter what the task is, we just want it done! At Cisco we do a […]

April 9, 2014

NETWORKING

IWAN Wed: Securing Your Transport Independence with DMVPN

2 min read

In my last blog I talked about the value of Pfr to the IWAN solution. This week I wanted to talk about DMVPN and why it is going to be a critical component of your IWAN deployment. Your IWAN topology will most likely consist of one or more internet connections which means that your data […]

April 4, 2014

NETWORKING

Key Annoucements at AWS Summit for the Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V

1 min read

We continue to see significant interest in the CSR 1000V as customers look for robust routing and VPN solution for securely connecting users and branch offices to the Cloud. Last week at the Amazon Web Services Summit in San Francisco Cisco announced a number of key enhancements to its Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V for […]

April 2, 2014

NETWORKING

IWAN Wed: Faster Service Delivery with NFV

2 min read

As part of our IWAN series I wanted to take a closer look into what trends are impacting the Service Providers. My previous blog talked about how Enterprises can use the CSR 1000V  to migrate to the Cloud. This week I wanted to talk about how Service Providers are using the CSR to deliver services […]

February 26, 2014

NETWORKING

IWAN Wed: Get 2X Bandwidth with PfR

2 min read

As part of our IWAN series, I wanted to provide a deeper dive into PfR. Why PfR? It is a fundamental feature that helps customers protect critical apps while increasing bandwidth utilization. I think it is fair to say, every organization can benefit tremendously from this powerful capability. PfR or Performance Routing is a feature […]

January 5, 2014

NETWORKING

Getting to the Nuts and Bolts of Migrating to the Cloud

1 min read

Once your organization has made the decision to move into the cloud what are the...

November 4, 2013

NETWORKING

3 Myths of the Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000v

1 min read

The Cloud Services Router 1000V continues to gain momentum as the virtualized routing and VPN platform for securely connecting your users and branch offices to the cloud. There are a number of public cloud providers offering different levels of functionality at different prices and selecting the right one that meets your needs can be a […]