I’ve had a few days back at home.  I’m fully recovered from the jet-lag and general lack of sleep.  The non-stop geek-fest that is Cisco Live is now over.  With some time to look back at everything that happened in San Diego, I’m blown away by how this might have been one of the best events I’ve been to in 16 years and how it’s too bad that it’s going to be a whole year before we get to do it again.  Here are some of the things that made a huge impression on many of the attendees I spoke to that week. Read More »

Tags: AppNav, Cloud Connected, cloud services router, CSR, ISR G2, router, waas, WAN Optimization

So, if you are a networking geek of any sort, you should be listening to PacketPushers--for both the education and the sheer entertainment value.  This year, we tried something a little different with the PacketPushers team and had them join us onsite at CiscoLive.  Below are six of the podcasts they produced for us:

• PQ Show 002 – Cisco Cloud Services Router With Prashant Shenoy
• PQ Show 003 – Cisco onePK With Richard Pruss
• PQ Show 004 – Catalyst 4500X and 4500E
• PQ Show 005 – Cisco Nexus Updates With Ron Fuller
• PQ Show 006 – Nexus 1000V Update With Han Yang
• Show 107 – Cisco Software Defined Networking Strategy With Omar Sultan

Tags: Catalyst 4500, Cisco ONE, cloud services router, N1KV, nexus, onePK, Packet Pushers, podcast, SDN, social media

Networking as a technology has been around for decades now and most people consider it to be mature with a crawling pace of innovation.  But with big market transitions like cloud computing, nothing can be further from the truth as the Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V has proven with its announcement at Cisco Live! – San Diego on June 12^th as part of our Cloud Connected Solution launch

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Tags: best of interop, Cisco Integrated Services Router, Cisco ISR, cloud, Cloud Connected Solution, cloud router, cloud services router, CSR 1000V, interop, router, routing, vPC

Earlier today we had a brief press conference introducing our Cloud Connected solutions that enable you to connect users to the cloud with confidence. And you can get the meaty detail tomorrow [June 13 @ 8am PDT] when we have a special episode of TechwiseTV on CiscoLive365 with Jimmy Ray Purser and Robb Boyd showcasing these new solutions, doing a technical deep dive, and kicking the proverbial tires. You can get a sneak peek here as Jimmy Ray took a stroll through our CiscoLive demo space.  As you can see in the picture to the right, Robb is very excited for these new solutions!  [He said I could post this picture, muahaha] Read More »

Tags: application, AppNav, cloud, cloud services router, cloudconnected, control, CSR, ISR G2, router, UCS-E, visibility, waas