Screenmedia Expo is your chance to find out how to create compelling new signage experiences that drive business value.

Come visit us at Gallery Level -- Room 1 to learn more about Cisco Digital Signage, a complete platform for interactive experiences in place. See first-hand the latest innovations and hear examples of how other organizations around the world are deploying video to revolutionize their business processes and communications.

Join us for breakfast and lunch on May 16^th and 17^th and hear Cisco executives discuss trends in the market.

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Tags: Cisco, digital signage, engagement, Erica Schroeder, Lisa Fretwell, Place, Screenmedia Expo, signage, video

Early in 2010 Cisco started construction on its greenfield data center in Allen, Texas. From inception, the goal was for this facility to embody our data center vision for consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, and new approaches to power and cooling, uniquely done all under one roof.

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Tags: Cisco, Cisco IT, cisco on cisco, coc-data-center, data center, DC, high density computing, metro virtual pair, multitenancy, power and cooling, resiliency

Protecting data, resources, and assets, including audio-video (A/V) content and communications no matter where it resides or travels on Cisco-powered networks can be a daunting undertaking to say the least. People ultimately are responsible for making this happen. With this thought in mind, here are a few questions that frequently challenge someone with this type of responsibility:

• How can one ensure that the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the core network keeps pace with the introduction of new technologies, while managing the continuous stream of disclosures on existing product vulnerabilities and emerging threats?
• What preemptive or corrective actions can one take to mitigate or remediate known or potential weaknesses in your network operations?
• What trusted informational resources are available that we can apply in the design, operation and optimization of a secure network, and where can this information be found?

This article provides personal insight into a specialized role residing within Cisco’s Applied Intelligence team, a team which was highlighted in the Network World feature article (page 3), “Inside Cisco Security Intelligence Operations.” The role is that of the Security Intelligence Engineer (SIE), a role which focuses on researching and producing actionable intelligence, vulnerability analysis, and threat validation that typically leads to providing answers and solutions to the challenges posed by these questions.

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Tags: Cisco, cyber security, security, Security Intelligence Operations (SIO), vulnerabilities

Customers from around the world are gathered today at Cisco’s campus in Richardson, Texas to kick off the Spring 2012 Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC). This brings together network operators, large enterprise customers, optical industry leaders, and Cisco solution teams at a three-day event to collaborate on best practices and future requirements in IP and optical solutions. Some of the key themes that will be featured at this year’s event include:

1. 40G/100G Coherent DWDM transport over 10G infrastructure: Much of the infrastructure today was designed to support only 10G wavelengths.  It is undesirable to cap and start over with new infrastructure that is purpose built for 40/100G.  Cisco’s unique Coherent optical transport technology is a game Read More »

Tags: 100G, 400G, Cisco, internet protocol, ip, optical ONS15454, packet optical, PONC, Service Provider

 The 2012 Cisco Global Cloud Networking Survey, which includes participants from more than 1,300 IT decision makers in 13 countries, was commissioned to measure the adoption of cloud services by IT professionals globally, while examining potential challenges to their cloud migrations.  Below, we take a deeper look at some of the positive, negative, and strange aspects to come out of the survey.

On the positive side, 73% of respondents felt they have enough information to begin their private or public cloud deployments. This leaves 27% who claim to feel more knowledgeable about how to play Angry Birds than the steps needed to migrate their company to the cloud. While Angry Birds is a fun game to play, this wan’t the strangest result from this research. Read More »

Tags: applications, Borderless Networks. Cisco Global Cloud Networking Survey, cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud migrations, cloud services, interop, Interop Las Vegas 2012, IT, mobility, routing, security, survey, vdi, virtual desktop, WAN latency, WAN Optimization, wireless