To clarify, it’s actually the interest in sharks that drives mobile device traffic – not the beasts themselves. Although sharks are some of the planet’s most mobile creatures, they lag in spending on tech gadgets due to a lack in household income and thumbs.
Tags: Cisco, Connecticut, facebook, fish, four square, iPad, iphone, jelly fish, maritime aquarium, mobile, Norwalk, Service Provider, sharks, Smart phone, social media, turtles, twitter
Marc Ayers, Senior Manager of Product Marketing, discusses how Cisco designs and builds unified communications solutions for mid-sized businesses so they provide a lower total cost of ownership and investment protection.
Leading into upcoming developments about communications for mid-size businesses, we are conducting a series of interviews with members of our product teams so get their insights into unified communications from a mid-size business and Cisco perspective.
Tags: Cisco, mid-size, smb, UC, unified communications
The World Innovation Summit for Education(WISE) is an initiative of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development. Launched in 2009, WISE is an international initiative and platform for a multitude of established and new educational actors to collaborate proactively all year round. There will be 1200 attendees from 45 countries, including greater than 25 country-level Ministers of Education in attendance at this Qatar meeting discussing potential global and regional impacts on teaching and learning. At the Wise Summit in Doha, Qatar, November 1-3, Cisco is one of only two major technology companies presenting at the conference. Another great visibility opportunity for Cisco in helping “transform Education, together.”
On November 1st, I will be speaking and moderating a session on “Adapting to the Future World of Work” Session: Adapting-future-world-work at the Wise summit in Qatar. In this session, the panel and I will explore ways in which education, business, social and government leaders in different regions might work together more effectively to address them. Learn more about related topics in the Equipping Every Learner for the 21st Century White Paper
Tags: 21st century skills, Cisco, education, Global Education, ICT, preparing the workforce, transforming education, WISE
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I had the pleasure of meeting up with both Leo Ploner, Publishing Director, Industrial Ethernet Book (IEB) and Tom McNulty from the Chicago, US office recently here in Silicon Valley recently. I was pleased to see that Cisco had contributed to an article in the 65 / 35 Issue of the Industrial Ethernet Book around the topic of RFID and industrial WiFi – a topic close to my own heart in terms of previous blogs of mine (Intro to RFID, Continental Tire, Boeing, and John Deere).
The first Industrial Ethernet Book was published in 1999. Since then it become an excellent information source for industrial networking and communication technology, and aims to provide unbiased editorial views focused on both process and discrete manufacturing industries. The editorial content is aimed at end users, system integrators and vendors within factory automation and process automation.
The article starts with the recognition that “Increasingly ‘smart’ devices, which include radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensors that have advanced diagnostics, are contributing to the billions of devices now connected to IP networks. This proliferation of smart devices is referred to by some as the ‘Internet of Things’, and it is projected to grow to trillions of devices that will be connected using the emerging IPv6 protocol (ref1). For manufacturers, a growing number of connected smart devices promises to revolutionise portability, mobility, context-aware condition and use of critical assets.” Read More »
Tags: aeroscout, automation, Boeing, Borderless Networks, Cisco, context-aware, Continental Tire, dreamliner, Enterprise, Factory, industrial, industrial networking, john deere, location, mobility, networking, operational excellence, operations excellence, productivity, rfid, supply chain, unified communications, Viracon, wireless
Judging from the buzz at this year’s CDN World Summit, CDN federations are a hot topic—and not just because they were the focus of my keynote. In short, the industry has moved beyond “if” and is now talking about “when” and “how.” This is good news because I believe CDN federations will play an important role in creating new opportunities for service providers to monetize their services.
As consumers demand greater amounts of high-quality content for their in-home and mobile devices, service providers (SPs) are finding it difficult to increase revenues while containing costs. In response, many SPs have implemented their own CDNs to reduce content-transport costs and improve the quality of content delivery to customers. While this approach has helped, results have been limited. Read More »
Tags: CDN federations, cdn world summit, Cisco, Cisco IBSG, Content delivery networks, ietf, internet engineering task force, Service Provider, SP
