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Samar Sharma

Intelligent Traffic Director for Nexus 9k/7k/6k/5k

Samar Sharma is a key innovator, architect and leader in the Data Center Switching Group.

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February 28, 2018

DATA CENTER

Catena and Other Innovations

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Catena is a multi-terabit service chaining, security, load-balancing, analytics and L4-L7 applications integration solution. Eg, Catena can perform these operations at 40 Tbps. Have you ever found yourself entangled in...

October 30, 2017

DATA CENTER

Catena: A Disruptive Innovation

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Catena allows the user to create, orchestrate and scale an elastic network. It could be a data center, service provider or enterprise network.

October 23, 2017

DATA CENTER

Load-Balancing at Scale

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Traditional load-balancers have operated at multi-Gbps speeds. Our recent inventions allow us to scale the load-balancing speed to multi-Tbps.

September 28, 2017

DATA CENTER

Innovating and Winning Awards

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The Best of Interop 2017 award winners were announced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. As the innovator and leader of these technologies, I was asked by several media representatives for an interview. Here is a short interview by Information Week news desk. Best of Interop Awards are like the Oscars of the Networking […]

May 11, 2017

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Catena selected as finalist in Leading Lights awards

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Recently Lightreading announced the finalists for the prestigious leading lights awards. One of the most coveted categories of these awards is Most Innovative Telecoms Product or Service (Fixed/Carrier Ethernet/Optical). Catena has been selected as finalist in this category. Organizers mention that there were 294 entries competing for these awards. Catena is a multi-terabit service chaining, security, […]

March 29, 2017

DATA CENTER

iCAM

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iCAM (Intelligent CAM) is Cisco’s breakthrough innovation that provides traffic analytics, per-feature hardware usage, recommendations and more, natively on the switch/router. So why is this important?   In today’s datacenter network, customers lack visibility into traffic patterns inside and outside the company. Whether it’s heavy internal application traffic between departments (e.g. HR, Finance), or it is […]

March 27, 2017

DATA CENTER

Catena

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Catena is a multi-terabit service chaining, security, load-balancing, analytics and L4-L7 applications integration solution. Eg, Catena can perform these operations at 40 Tbps. Have you ever found yourself entangled in deploying multiple applications, L4-L7 services, network devices, VMs and Containers? Add multiple departments/tenants sharing those resources, and you have a nightmare! We have solved these […]

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