BBVA uses Cisco DNA Center and SD-Access to verify trust and prevent financial fraud

When BBVA, one of the largest banks in the world, wanted to protect their users and data, they turned to Cisco SD-Access for zero trust security and for continuous monitoring of all connected endpoints to spot behavioral anomalies and take corrective action.

If you can’t trust a MAC address, what can you trust?

The concept of random and changing MAC addresses is not brand new, but is beginning to have a real impact on how network tools operate. The idea that operating system vendors are providing users with increasing privacy by making it harder for big corporations to track them is a double edged sword. How can networking tools continue to provide critical services such as network access control, guest and BYOD services in an environment where the identifier of the endpoint, the MAC address, is no longer stable.

Comparing Lower Layer Splits for Open Fronthaul Deployments

The transition to open RAN (Radio Access Network) based on interoperable lower layer splits is gaining significant momentum across the mobile industry. However, where best to split the open RAN is a complex compromise between radio unit (RU) simplification, support of advanced coordinated multipoint RF capabilities, consequential limitations on transport delay budgets as well as bandwidth expansion. This post compares the two leading alternative splits for realizing an interoperable open RAN.