Kick-Off! Beautifully Engineered

I live in Texas. It’s getting to be Fall (translation: only 85o F today). And, well, as much as I’m a Formula One (Go Ferrari!) and soccer (or what most of the world calls ‘real football’) guy - here in …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on September 21, 2009 at 08:37AM

Scaling up for the Zettabyte Era

On August 25th Cisco hosted an Investor Relations Conference and issued several press releases related to the ASR 9000 platform. I was able to interview Praveen Akkiraju, Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Core Router Business Unit, to discuss …Read more.

Posted by Mike Capuano on August 26, 2009 at 08:26PM

Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Annual Update

The Annual Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast has just been released and projects a five-fold increase in traffic from 2008 to 2013, when an estimated 2/3rds of a zettabyte will cross the network. Watch to learn more about the study, …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on June 09, 2009 at 05:00AM

Approaching the Zettabyte Era

This week, at NXTcomm in Las Vegas, we introduced the Cisco Visual Networking Index, an ongoing Cisco initiative designed to provide quantitative and qualitative information regarding trends in IP network demand and usage. Part of a collaborative effort from throughout …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on June 20, 2008 at 10:29AM

Internet Traffic: What Is A Zettabyte?

As any average user of the internet knows, a zettabyte is equal to 1 trillion gigabytes or 1,000 exabytes or about 250 billion DVDs.  Driven by the use of video on the web, Cisco today released a study that estimates …Read more.

Posted by John Earnhardt on June 16, 2008 at 01:27PM