enterprise networks

October 13, 2016

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Digitally Sell at #FullSpeed: Cisco dCloud Demos Help You Avoid Death by PowerPoint

2 min read

In the summer of 2012, I was asked to pick up a high profile project with time restrictions for Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (BAML). The brief was to implement a...

August 16, 2016

PERSPECTIVES

#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 22: DNA: QoE/VoE Overview

1 min read

#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA). Get the...

July 22, 2016

GOVERNMENT

Cisco is Powering #ConnectedConventions

1 min read

This past week, the Republican National Convention took place in Cleveland and on Monday, the Democratic National Convention will kick off in Philadelphia. During this time, both cities are transformed, with thousands of political leaders and eager participants flying in from around the country to converge on both the Quicken Loans Arena and the Wells […]

April 11, 2016

NETWORKING

The Future OS: Pushing Boundaries on Networking

4 min read

Guest Blogger: Pratap Pereira, Distinguished Engineer, Enterprise Networking Group. Pratap sets the long-term engineering direction for IOS and IOS-XE at Cisco. He was a founding engineer of IOS-XE and has seen it grow from the first commits of a new foundational infrastructure for routing platforms into a comprehensive software stack for the entire enterprise portfolio. […]

March 10, 2016

NETWORKING

Your Network (re)Imagined – Now with More NET, Less WORK

3 min read

Learn how Cisco Enterprise NFV is the key enabler of IT agility and innovation.

March 8, 2016

TECHWISETV

Enterprise NFV Fundamentals

3 min read

Enterprise NFV is focused on bringing this SDN style functionality to your branch office capabilities. Any large enterprise is thinking like a service provider these days because the IT department (or whatever you might call it now) are providing business critical functions. The faster it can be done, the more it can be used and at the lowest cost..the better.

February 15, 2016

NETWORKING

NFV Is Not Just For Service Providers

3 min read

What comes to mind when you hear the term Network Functions Virtualization(NFV)?  Until recently, at least in my mind, the answers were ‘Service Providers’, ‘vCPE’, ‘Cloud’. If you don’t know what NFV is, read this blog post first and come back. But why does NFV have to be exclusively for service providers?  At the end of […]

August 19, 2015

NETWORKING

The Evolution of Networking Software

2 min read

As a long time networking veteran, I’ve watched our industry change and respond to a wide variety of disruptive changes. I remember PictureTel ISDN videoconferences on the IBM PC. Then came  IP video conferencing in the early ’90s.  Things picked up 1991, when Microsoft launched Windows Media Player 1.0. Though Windows Media Player and Microsoft […]