SDN
Operators Accelerating Pace with NFV and SDN
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Save Money Here and Now When was the last time you won the lottery? If you are like me, it’s a pretty rare occasion indeed. The same probability can be applied to increasing the budget allocation for any business and especially for service providers. What can service providers do to save money now, enabling them […]
Enabling Open, Agile, Application Centric Networks With Cisco Evolved Services Platform
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Service provider customers expect more. The pace of change around us is not just constant but continuing to accelerate. To stay competitive with the nimble new players in the market, service providers need to change how they engage all of their end customers. Not exactly an easy challenge to overcome, but rapid and successful business […]
Service Agility from Customer, Business, and Orchestration Perspectives
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A Great Leap Forward Evolutionary biologists talk about features that suddenly seem to burst forth and enable stunning new capabilities for life forms in the natural world. Eyes. Legs. Flight. And right now service providers have at their fingertips many new operational features that can help them become more agile purveyors of better, faster, and […]
Networking: Moving From Open to Closed (Part 2 of 2)
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner In the first half of this blog, I explained how MSDCs are like mainframes and super computers. In this half I develop on my thesis that the networks connecting compute and storage resources within the MSDC are becoming proprietary just like they are […]
Back By Popular Demand – Learning Opportunity on Catalyst 3650
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A few months ago we had a webcast on the Catalyst 3650 and it was so popular, there were so many questions, we thought we’d host another one! This webcast is being held on August 19th at 10am PT and you can register here! Tweet Topics to be discussed include: Top of mind IT issues […]
The Future of Networking, Available Today
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I am Soni Jiandani, SVP of Marketing for Cisco’s Insieme Business Unit. Together with a team of veteran leaders and engineers, we continue to disrupt markets to drive industry transformation....
Nexus Flexibility Eases Transitions
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Cisco has a broad base of data center customers with a diverse set of requirements and we meet their needs with Nexus - the most comprehensive switching portfolio in the...
SDN and Beyond: Cisco ACI Starts Shipping to Data Centers Worldwide on July 31!
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ACI goes beyond SDN to help customers deliver business outcomes and not just network device programmability. That’s part of the reason over 175 customers signed up to trial the APIC...