SDN

October 10, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco at the Fall ’14 PONC, Oct 28-30, Baveno Italy – Informative Workshops

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By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions The Fall ’14 Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) is quickly approaching – October 28-30 in Baveno & Vimercate, Italy.  Don’t miss this opportunity to participate in this highly compelling and informative event (To learn more visit the Cisco PONC Series webpage). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxZJmKGP1M If you […]

October 10, 2014

DATA CENTER

The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 1 – Enabling Automation

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[Note: This is the first of a four-part series on the OpFlex protocol in Cisco ACI, how it enables an application-centric policy model, and why other SDN protocols do not.  Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4] IT departments and lines of business are looking at cloud automation tools and software-defined networking (SDN) architectures […]

Transform Service Provider Architectures to Support Virtualized Managed Business Services

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By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco estimates over 50 billion new devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020.  To support the Internet of Everything, service providers must undergo an infrastructure transformation.  The network needs to become more open, programmable, automated, adaptive, and agile.  To guide this transformation, the […]

Join Us at BBWF 2014

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Written by Greg Nehib, Cisco Senior Product Marketing Manager  Network functions virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) will get a lot of interest this year at BBWF 2014 Broadband World Forum 2014 as carriers seek to make networks more agile and efficient. In talking to both service providers and large enterprises, it’s clear that […]

October 1, 2014

DATA CENTER

Security for an Application-Centric World

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Organizations are migrating to the cloud because it dramatically reduces IT costs as we make much more efficient use of resources (either ours or by leveraging some cloud provider’s resources...

September 26, 2014

DATA CENTER

New Cisco Nexus Data Broker Release 2.0 Now Available

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We are excited to announce the availability of Cisco Nexus Data Broker software release 2.0. Using the Cisco Nexus Data Broker software, Cisco’s approach replaces the traditional purpose-built matrix switches used for network taps or SPAN aggregation with one or more OpenFlow-enabled Cisco Nexus switches. Visibility into application traffic has traditionally been important for infrastructure […]

September 24, 2014

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CCAP+Remote PHY and the Path Towards FTTH, Unified Access and Virtualization

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By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access BU This week, we and 10,000 or so hard-core engineering colleagues within the cable industry descend upon the city once known as the cable capital of the world — Denver, Colorado — and, like it’s been since the earliest days of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers’ […]

September 19, 2014

DATA CENTER

Leading the SDN transition with ACI – One Customer At a Time

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The last several months have been a roll with several customers, channel partner and technology partner engagements. With the ACI starter kits and lab bundles shipping, customers can bring...

September 16, 2014

DATA CENTER

Software Defined Networking, Cisco Style

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As new technologies emerge and replace traditional ones, IT teams are discovering that building an infrastructure around new functionality is advantageous in a slew of ways. One such disruptive technology gaining ground is software defined networking, or SDN. The premise of SDN is to allow the user to determine how the network behaves by decoupling […]