With Cisco’s focus on bringing the power of video to organizations of all sizes when, where and how they want it, we are dedicated to expanding our virtualized collaboration offerings.

One of the ways we are demonstrating our strong commitment to seamless conferencing is by ensuring uncompromised quality and experience in any environment – whether delivered as hosted, on-premise or hybrid, and with virtualized or dedicated platforms.  Our comprehensive approach to video collaboration is part of a broader architecture that enables a consistent user experience across any device and flexibility in delivery options.

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As service providers move to cloud-based services, their IP addressing management system must operate efficiently in the virtualized environment of the cloud.  And within the cloud environment, these systems for DHCP, DNS and IP address management must also be fast. For example, many organizations have expressed a concern that poor DHCP performance could be the weak link when thousands of customers come back online after a failure event.  If DHCP address requests are handled in a slow or scattered manner, servers will not be able to service all requests in a timely fashion.

Another requirement for IP address management systems is support for IPv6, as the depletion of IPv4 addresses has led to many organizations finding themselves facing a rather accelerated and mandatory migration to IPv6 (read: yesterday’s World IPv6 Launch). While one of IPv6’s promises was the elimination of the need for DHCP, the reality is that centralized network management has made DHCPv6 a necessity.  DHCP allows network devices to Read More »

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