ip

September 17, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

IPAM is Essential to Network Management

2 min read

By Tim Rooney, Director, Product Management, BT Diamond IP The discipline of network management has long offered technical and business benefits to organizations with the centralization of the monitoring, control, and provisioning of distributed network elements such as routers and application or services databases. These benefits include holistic management of a network from a centralized […]

September 11, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The Programmable Network: IP and Optical Convergence

3 min read

Someday soon, personal sensors, wearable gadgets, and embedded devices and services may make today’s PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones look quaint by comparison. But as the Internet of Everything­ (IoE) ─ with its diverse array of devices accessing a plethora of existing and new services ─ continues to rapidly evolve, user friendly interfaces mask growing […]

Cisco Small Business Online Device Emulators

1 min read

How do you get a feel for things? Perhaps a little research online, a review or two, maybe a referral from a friend or co-worker. But big purchases, such as a new car may require more; more information.  So you go to take a test drive. Well, we have something similar to a test drive. […]

Moving to IPv6: Rebuilding the Heart of the Internet Without Missing a Beat

4 min read

Within the coming decade, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) will be key to enabling 50 billion connections among people, processes, data, and things in the Internet of Everything (IoE). But how we get there from here is not a simple matter. I’m very pleased to invite Mark Townsley, Cisco Fellow and recognized industry expert on IP, […]

July 16, 2013

MANUFACTURING

Converge OT with IT for Business Benefits in Manufacturing

1 min read

At the recent Cisco Live 2013 event in Orlando, I talked about the business value of converging operations technology (OT)—used for industrial automation systems—with IT business networks, in order to create more secure, end-to-end, standard communications and control.  Regarding business value of IT/OT convergence for machine builders/integrators and consequently their manufacturing customers, I referenced a […]

Capturing Value from Data in Motion in the Internet of Everything

3 min read

Much has been written about the vast number and variety of things that will soon be connected to the Internet—from milk cartons and alarm clocks to sensors and trains. Already in 2008, that number exceeded the number of people on earth. By 2020, when the next incarnation of the Internet—aka the Internet of Things—is in […]

Happy First Birthday, World IPv6 Launch!

2 min read

No more tests, no more trials, IPv6 has left the laboratory -- for good. Happy First Birthday, World IPv6 Launch! May you have many, many, more.

Six Insights: Implications of the VNI Forecast 2012-2017

2 min read

Shortly before we released this year’s Cisco VNI Forecast 2012-2017* on May 29th, I had a chance to contemplate the implications behind all the report’s data. The Forecast makes it clear that IP traffic will continue to grow “in leaps and bounds” through 2017, but there is so much more information lying hidden within the […]