Hello, and welcome to my blog. As a new member of the Enterprise Networking’s Solutions Marketing team, I’ll be writing about connectivity to the cloud, Software Defined Networking (SDN) and virtualized routing. You can expect to learn details around Cisco’s architecture and product offerings in these topics. Further, based on your comments, I can go into as much detail as necessary.

First, a brief background. I moved to the Bay Area last November from Boston after almost 20 years in New England (in Boston), so I will be musing about culture shocks between the two coasts. I may also learn to like the Warriors and Niners, but I will always be a Celtics and Patriots fan. Read More »

Tags: Application Visibility and Control, AVC, cloudrouter, CSR, CSR 1000V, LISP, mpls, MPLS CE Router, virtualized routing, vpn

Last month, Cisco announced ISR-AX. This new application delivery platform provides granular application visibility, control and optimization, integrated in a single box.  ISR-AX helps customers enhance end-user productivity, lower WAN bandwidth costs and simplify IT.

In discussing this new role of the router, application performance management becomes a key component.  ISR-AX and AVC (Application Visibility and Control) offers an open platform where we share the network intelligence gathered by Cisco routers with third party tools.  CA Technologies and Cisco have been working together towards supporting our mutual customers’ needs for Application and Network Performance Management (APM and NPM) and ensure that users get the highest quality of application experience from anywhere. Read More »

Tags: #CAWorld, Application Experience Router, Application Visibility and Control, AVC, borderless, CA Technologies, CA World, Cisco, ISR G2, ISR-AX, router, waas

Another year, another CiscoLive. This was the last year in the London venue, and since it was the third time we did it, we had a chance to incorporate learning from the previous two years. As a result, I would say the network was quite a success.

The key element of the design, led by Mark McKillop, was the balance between showcasing the latest technology and maintaining the simplicity of the network. This year we had a mixed L2 + L3 core design. This design helped decrease the impact of various parts on each other. The L2 core was in place for the “special-case” requests, which a routing-based infrastructure could not help with. Read More »

Tags: cisco live, Cisco Live NOC, Cisco Live Orlando, IPv6, l2, L3, Network design

“Activate the IT Transformation with Cisco Unified Access” Webinar Series: Part II Network Deep Dive, April 17

Your network is going through rapid changes as your user and business requirements continue to evolve. Before long (if it’s not already happening), the edge of your network will more than likely transition to a high performing Gigabit desktop switching network plus a highly reliable Gigabit Wi-Fi (802.11ac) network. Cisco Converged Access is an innovative deployment mode that has been optimized to support both the Gigabit Ethernet based and the Gigabit Wi-Fi based edge as a single network with excellent scale, security, and performance.

You might be thinking to yourself: Read More »

Tags: 802.11ac, Activate the IT Transformation, Catalyst 3850 Switch, Cisco, Cisco Unified Access, Converged Access, gigabit ethernet, gigabit Wi-Fi, mobility, unified access

It has been a couple of weeks since its launch and we are seeing lots of interest in the Cisco ISR-AX!  I have been hearing from customers, partners and folks  worldwide about how they are using the new ISR-AX platforms now and get a router, VPN, firewall, intrusion prevention, cloud/web security, AVC (NBAR2, QoS, NetFlow, Media Monitoring, PfR) and WAN optimization (WAAS) all in one box for less than the cost of just an alternative WAN Optimization appliance.  For WAN optimization with WAAS that is less than $1 per WAN optimized connection with ISR-AX!

Anyway, I’ve gotten lots of questions since the launch, so I grouped them and wanted to share the top 4: Read More »

Tags: Application Visibility and Control, Applications visibility, AVC, ISR-AX, QoS, Questions on ISR-AX, wan opt, WAN Optimization