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RST Fiber’s High-speed Network powered by Cisco’s Evolved Programmable Network
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By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager We’ve been discussing the Evolved Programmable Network for some time now, knowing the transition from an IP NGN to an EPN is not something that will happen overnight (See EPN Blogs 1 , 2, 3). The Cisco® Evolved Programmable Network (EPN), represents an idea, an end-to-end unification of network, storage, […]
Part 3 – SDN Questions to Ask at the Gartner Data Center Conference
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My final observation from my days at the London Gartner Data Center Conference is related to SDN and ease of network management – or otherwise. Hopefully this discussion will give...
Part 2 – SDN Questions to Ask at the Gartner Data Center Conference
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As I mentioned in yesterday's blog, last week I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in London. I came out of the conference with some questions...
Defeat IT Complexity To Free Time For Innovation
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When Apple Pay was announced in September this year, it brought a lot of attention to the digital payment business. But this is certainly not the first sign that we are moving rapidly towards a digital society. For example, Starbucks has been doing this for years by handling millions of mobile wallet payments every week. […]
SDN Questions to Ask at the Gartner Data Center Conference
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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Gartner Data Center conference in London. I attended 3 different sessions on SDN-related topics. Here are some...
Network Services Headers (NSH): Creating a Service Plane for Cloud Networks
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In the past, we have pointed out that configuring network services and security policies into an application network has traditionally been the most complex, tedious and time-consuming aspect of...
Cisco SPotlight Series – The Year Ahead in Mobility
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To address many questions about mobility, I am delighted to share with you our point-of-view through our “Cisco SPotlight Series,” an ongoing course of videos in which we answer questions and provide commentary on many hot topics in the service provider industry. In this latest video, I reveal what mobile operators and their customers, including […]
Developing Products and Solutions in the 21st Century
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On November 3rd, 2014 at the Software Defined Network-Multiprotocol label Switching SDN-MPLS (Software Defined Networking-Multiprotocol Label Switching) Conference in Washington D.C: I moderated a stellar panel titled, “Developing Products...
Take 2: Is Your WLAN Ready for Unified Communications and Collaboration?
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In the previous blog, we covered details about Cisco AVC enhancements with AireOS 7.6 that allow you to classify various collaboration applications such as Cisco Jabber™, Cisco WebEx®, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Lync, and Microsoft Skype. Many customers have deployed voice-over-WLAN in mission-critical environments. The goal in this blog is to walk you through the […]