DCI

December 13, 2016

DATA CENTER

Nexus 7000 Innovations: Data Center Interconnect, Enhanced Scale, Enhanced Security and Investment Protection

2 min read

Digital transformation is a multi-trillion dollar global initiative that is placing enormous pressure on IT to move faster and manage the increasing diversity in the types of users, apps, and locations needed just to support their businesses’ bottom line. As a result, developers will create thousands of new enterprises apps that demand the utmost in […]

Cisco at OFC: Next Gen DCI & Transport Network Modernization

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By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cisco will be at OFC, the world’s premier optical event again showcasing our industry leading Packet Optical Convergence innovations and solutions. We encourage you to be part of the experience by visiting our Exposition booth (#3109 in Hall C) where you can interact with Cisco […]

February 12, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Data Center Interconnect: Next-Gen Apps and Platforms

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We invite you to attend a free webinar Thursday, February 28 that will explore how network operators can solve Data Center and WAN interconnect challenges by leveraging cutting edge data center interconnect (DCI) technology from Cisco – the Network Convergence System (NCS) 1000 Series.

July 9, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Will Software Defined Networking Actually Happen?

6 min read

As a writer for the IT media, conference speaker, and co-host of the Packet Pushers podcast, I cover emerging networking technologies often. The new tech that comes across my screen ranges in value from “I can’t believe that got funded,” to “Why has no one thought of this before?” and everything in between. As a […]

May 20, 2014

NETWORKING

Deliver High Performance Cloud Services with the new ASR 1001-X

2 min read

At CiscoLive this week, I am proud to announce the launch of the new Aggregation Services Router, the ASR 1001-X. The ASR 1001-X is the latest addition to the ASR 1000 family of routers that packs 20Gbps forwarding capacity and 8G of Layer 3 Crypto  throughput in a compact 1RU form factor! In my earlier […]

May 12, 2014

NETWORKING

How are Cloud Services Challenging the Network?

2 min read

The seemingly endless demand for Cloud Services is driving the need for more data center capacity. This trend is also driving the need for greater bandwidth and intelligent networks for users to access these Cloud services. It is not just Enterprises driving demand for data center capacity from companies like Salesforce.com or Amazon Web Services […]

E-VPN and PBB-EVPN Take Data Center Interconnect to the Next Level

3 min read

By Tina Lam, Product Manager MPLS based Layer 2 VPN has been around for over 10 years since the inception of IETF Pseuduowire Edge to Edge (PWE3) Working Group. Many drafts and standards have been added, since then, to address different applications and to improve scale and convergence in different topologies. L2VPN as a whole […]