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February 20, 2019

NETWORKING

New Perspectives on Software-Defined WAN

7 min read

The integration of SD-WAN with cloud management functionality into the Cisco family of routers in 2018 excited many of our customers. So what can we look forward to as this technology enters its next phase?

August 7, 2018

NETWORKING

Revolutionizing WANs with Cisco IOS XE Software-Defined Architecture

4 min read

Cisco is expanding our Viptela SD-WAN capabilities across the ISR/ASR router family with Cisco IOS® XE software. #SDWAN #Cisco

February 9, 2016

NETWORKING

Slow and Steady Doesn’t Win This Digital Business Race

4 min read

When I talk to network professionals, I routinely ask them about the one part of their job that keeps them up at night. The thing that consistently comes up is their network speed required for delivering a consistent reliable user experience: or specifically, the lack of it. They usually follow up this admission by saying […]

Making sense of Service Provider Virtualization

3 min read

Guest blog by Greg Nehib, SP Product and Solutions Marketing I like to think of virtualization as an expanded networking toolkit, providing us with additional options to get the job done. It’s almost like when cordless tools entered the consumer tool market. You could take the cordless tools anywhere and use them in new and exciting applications. […]

How Important are Physical Routers in the move toward Virtualization?

2 min read

Guest blog by Greg Nehib, SP Product and Solutions Marketing How important are physical routers in the move toward virtualization? My one word response would be “very”. But the longer version would start with “it depends”. Here’s the longer version: It depends on your perspective. I remember when the Cisco 12000 Series GSR was introduced in the […]

Making Applications and Network Infrastructure Talk

2 min read

Guest blog by Frederic Trate, SP Product and Solutions Marketing One may say this is a topic the telecom industry has been working on for many years and that’s somewhat true. Remember the time when routing protocols and QoS (Quality of Service) mechanisms were the only tools at Service Provider’s disposal to arbitrate between sensitive and non-sensitive […]

January 22, 2015

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Hope for Securing the Internet of Things

2 min read

I talk and write a lot about the benefits of connecting more things to enterprise networks, and the most frequent concern that I hear is the worry that deploying an industrial IoT will open up thousands more security holes to the network. With an understanding of the new threats and important defenses that come with […]