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August 2, 2013

OPEN AT CISCO

Why I Chose the Open Source Model I did for OpenDaylight

4 min read

Now that OpenDaylight has arrived, it’s time to explain why I made the Open Source choices eventually embraced by its Founders and the community at large.  One doesn’t often see such leaders as Cisco, IBM, Intel, HP, Juniper, RedHat, VMWare, NEC, Microsoft and others agree, share and collaborate on such key technologies, let alone the latter engaging in a […]

August 1, 2013

NETWORKING

Announcing Cisco Wireless Release 7.5

2 min read

With the prevalence of mobile devices connecting people and things today, we are seeing a base expectation for uncompromised wireless connectivity. There is no doubt that the trend for high...

July 24, 2013

NETWORKING

Success with Cisco Bonjour Services Directory

2 min read

Have you seen this video? For those of you who are not familiar with the technology, Bonjour is a multicast DNS(mDNS) based protocol used to advertise and connect to network...

July 12, 2013

NETWORKING

Wireless Controller Redundancy with No Client Reauthentication Needed

1 min read

Last fall, I blogged about No SSID Outage or Access Point Stateful Switchover introduced with the AireOS 7.3 release whereby if your wireless LAN Controller fails due to some...

May 17, 2013

NETWORKING

802.11ac: Is Your Network Infrastructure Ready for Next-Gen Wi-Fi Traffic?

3 min read

The next generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11ac couples the freedom of wireless with the speed of gigabit Ethernet. This also translates in additional load on the backbone of the network, which has to deliver at least 3 times the capacity of the current gold standard, the 802.11n based network. Cisco launched the Unified Access architecture  to […]

May 7, 2013

NETWORKING

Cisco will ride the 802.11ac Wave2

4 min read

If you recall, back in the early days of 802.11n, the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) rolled out the 802.11n certification program in phases.  Here we are several years later and in...

April 8, 2013

NETWORKING

Listen Up! Spotlight on NSA Show & Cisco Podcast Series

1 min read

As some of you already know, we've teamed up with the popular wireless networking podcast “No Strings Attached” to release a mobility podcast series. We've recorded 6 podcasts, and counting!...