network

July 12, 2016

EDUCATION

Building a Smarter Campus: Deakin University

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Commitment to digital transformation through a smart campus and fully interconnected digital learning hub will be critical to the university's continued success.

July 11, 2016

NETWORKING

Cisco Umbrella Branch: the Fastest, Easiest Security for Branches

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As an organization, providing secure guest and corporate Internet access at the branch can be a major challenge. Not only do you have to protect the enterprise, you also have to protect your customer. Protection is good… but it also needs to be simple to deploy, easy to manage, and integrates seamlessly. Let’s also not […]

Join Cisco at Next Generation Optical Network Conference (NGON) 2016

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By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cisco, and the international transport community, will converge on the Acropolis Convention Center starting this Tuesday in Nice, France – June 28, through July 1, for the 18th annual NGON conference. NGON is considered by many to be the primer DWDM/Optical conference in Europe.  Hot […]

Smarter Network, Smarter Devices: A Holistic Approach to Policy Control Network Policy on the Device

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Policy Control is most commonly associated with PCRF, the 3GPP-defined standard for implementing policy and charging rules. It is the enforcement of these rules at the various network gateways that enable mobile operators to control and monetize their services. Network-based policies create the foundation for delivering a better user experience (and thus a successful business) […]

Networks of the Future: Extreme Times Call for Extreme Measures!

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Here’s an observation that happened to serve as the basis of a keynote I had the opportunity to give the other day, at the TIA 2016 “Network of the Future” conference, in Dallas: Yes, it would be wonderful indeed if broadband service providers saw 50% annual revenue growth — if only to offset that 50% […]

June 10, 2016

NETWORKING

KVM App Hosting on a Cisco Router

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Run your own virtual machine directly on a Cisco router. In 2013 we introduced a pretty cool new trick for Cisco routers. The ISR 4000 Series and ASR 1000 Series can host virtual applications directly in IOS XE operating system. Since then the ISR 4000 has supported a range of Cisco applications: starting with WAAS […]

Creating Context to Attract the Connected Customer

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A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to lead a session at the SAS Global Forum, along with Intel VP Steve Brown and Lori Schafer, SAS Retail Executive Advisor, on how retailers can create better in-store context for today’s connected customer. SAS Institute is a Cisco analytics partner and we had some exciting […]

Team Updates including new programs, recent launches and a new video

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Hello all. I trust it has been a good week for you. I am happy to report I am back in-country here in Southern California after a week in Shanghai. I went to visit my fantastic technical product team as we kicked off a new program that will bring five new models in the next […]

Network Security is Not Child’s Play

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Do you remember the childhood game Gossip? Maybe you played it. A secret message is whispered from one person to the next until it reaches the last person who says out loud what they believed they heard. Whether by an honest misunderstanding or intentional sabotage, often the end message is nothing like the original. Now, […]