Cisco ISR

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Probably not a day goes by without someone telling you about a new vulnerability or threat to your network and your data.  These threats are seemingly everywhere.  In order to protect against these threats, we use strong passwords and encryption.  Unfortunately, our adversaries are getting the same messages as they continue to scoop up our […]

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CIOs want a digital ready branch to enable growth, but growth is required in order to increase the IT budget and invest in a digital ready branch. See Cisco's solution.

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We demonstrate two different scenarios: An anomaly that turns out to be an FTP file transfer we didn’t expect, and an unusual spike in traffic. In both cases, what blew me away was how easy it was to understand what was truly going on, and how simple it was to take action.

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The threat environment faced by organization deploying branch networks continues to evolve. It’s time for a disruptive approach to handling network security across many distributed branch sites. Automation is becoming a requirement, because the growing volume and complexity of the threats to data security have made it impossible to keep up with them manually. Cisco […]

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It’s been a few exciting weeks recently at Cisco. On the heels of Cisco and Apple innovations for iOS 10, came the Tetration Analytics announcement to provide pervasive visibility across everything in your data center in real time. Now, I am ecstatic to continue that momentum with an update to our Digital Network Architecture (DNA) […]

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With the recent launch of FirePower Threat Defense on Cisco 4000 Series Integrated Services Routers, I would like to spend some time talking about enterprise branch security and...

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A new problem has arisen in CCNA class: We have a lab that asks the students to enable a debug command; the debug overruns the console buffer to the extent that commands cannot be entered, and this goes on for more than an hour! In my 15 years of teaching CCNA classes, we have always […]

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Over the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to come up from my rabbit hole of deployment projects and catch up on the tech news. In particular, the announcement at Interop New York where Cisco announced the new ISR 4400 family of routers along with a few other articles got me to thinking about how far branch office connectivity […]

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In my last blog I talked about the value of Pfr to the IWAN solution. This week I wanted to talk about DMVPN and why it is going to be a critical component of your IWAN deployment. Your IWAN topology will most likely consist of one or more internet connections which means that your data […]