Year: 2015

June 17, 2015 2 Comments
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3 Determining Questions and One Can’t-Miss 4G LTE Webinar

Hot Air Balloon in the FogAn Unforgettable Experience

It’s 6 a.m. on a Saturday. Filled with excitement and anticipation, I watched as my hot air balloon, the last one in the bunch, inflated. Around me, one after another, balloons started to float effortlessly off the ground into the air. The Napa Valley’s sun glittered in the distant as my balloon finally took off. At 1,050 feet, some fogs rolled by, then I saw it: a shadow of my balloon in the fog encircled by a rainbow – see the picture above, top right. I quickly pulled out my iPhone 6, snapped a panoramic, and posted it on Facebook. It was the most mesmerizing experience ever, not just because of the experience itself, but also because I can share it with my families and friends via 4G LTE. However, 4G LTE isn’t just for smartphones.

Connecting the Unconnected

The world of things, a.k.a Internet of Things (#IoT), around us is connecting in ways beyond imagination. According to a November 2014 issue of the Harvard Business Review, “Smart, connected products are changing how value is created…(and) will affect the trajectory of the overall economy, giving rise to the next era of IT-driven productivity growth for companies, their customers, and the global economy.” For example, just-in-time inventory replenishment, powered by connected vending machines, enables one business to capitalize on OpEx savings and increase revenue per unit. Wireless monitoring allows an oil and gas company to quickly respond to pipeline issues in rugged, remote locations. Connected lightning empowers one smart city to reduce crime rate and improve its residents’ quality of life. Even one’s personal space, such as the home, is becoming more connected with the use of #WEMO products and smart devices integration (those coming to #CES, you must see the Connected Home demo). This Digital Transformation, powered by 4G LTE, brings about considerable improvements in the ways we work, live, and play.  Continue reading “3 Determining Questions and One Can’t-Miss 4G LTE Webinar”

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Anna Duong

Products & Solutions Marketing

Enterprise Network and Cloud

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A Seismic STEM Challenge

Over 2000 innovators came together in San Jose recently to examine ways to ensure that buildings can survive powerful earthquakes.

This was no ordinary trade show. It wasn’t an industry conference filled with engineers and seismologists, policymakers and building managers. Instead, the more than 2000 participants were students, grades 4 through 12, from across Silicon Valley who came together for The Tech Challenge, a signature event of The Tech Museum of Innovation. Cisco has been the event’s presenting sponsor for five years.

The challenge was deceptively simple: design, engineer, and build a multi-story building able to withstand powerful seismic forces. Hundreds of teams spent the last 6 months researching seismic engineering, testing materials, and coming up with strong and flexible designs.

Then, these projects were put to the ultimate test: withstanding the earthquake simulator to see if the building survived intact.

The Tech Challenge is one of the most diverse science competitions in the United States
The Tech Challenge is one of the most diverse science competitions in the United States

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Ricardo Benavidez

Senior Community Relations Manager

June 16, 2015 3 Comments
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Three Cheers for Cisco! Enterprise Products Clean Up at Interop Tokyo!

Cisco is proud to have three enterprise products selected as award recipients at last weeks’s Interop conference in Tokyo. The products’ recognition at Interop’s Best of Show Awards further cements Cisco’s commitment to providing the best innovative products and solutions for our customers.

Cisco swept the Mobile & Wireless Category, as the Cisco Hyperlocation Module took home the Grand Prize and the Cisco Aironet 1850 Series Access Point (AP) won the Semi-Grand Prize. This year’s accolades makes it back-to-back triumphs for the Hyperlocation Module as it won the Best of Interop Award during last April’s show in Las Vegas.

In the Enterprise/SMB Networking Category, the Catalyst mGig 4500-E/3850/3560-CX received the category’s Special Prize.

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Cisco is honored to be recognized by Interop for its innovation and technological advancements in wireless. If you aren’t familiar with our award-winning products, we wanted to bring you up to speed on what we can do.

Award-Winning Solutions Continue reading “Three Cheers for Cisco! Enterprise Products Clean Up at Interop Tokyo!”

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Bill Rubino

Product Marketing Manager

Enterprise Networking and Cloud Marketing

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The world cuts the cable: Wireless Traffic to Exceed Fixed IP Traffic Next Year

IP traffic next yearOne key take out for me from the latest Cisco VNI report is that wireless traffic is about to exceed fixed for the first time. Today wireless (Wi-Fi & Mobile) is 46% of total IP traffic, in 5-years it will be 67%. In fact at the projected rate of traffic migration this significant milestone will be reached next year. Continue reading “The world cuts the cable: Wireless Traffic to Exceed Fixed IP Traffic Next Year”

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Andrew Mackay

Head of Mobile Solutions

Asia-Pacific Region

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Cisco Women Engineers Make Their Mark at the IEEE Women In Engineering International Leadership Conference

WiEEEIn April this year, Cisco sponsored the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference held at the San Jose Marriott. This was part of a concerted effort to advance and attract women in technical and leadership roles in the technology industry.

At the beginning of our partnership with IEEE we asked ourselves: “What is it going to take to change an industry, to give every woman in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) a seat at the innovation table?” Continue reading “Cisco Women Engineers Make Their Mark at the IEEE Women In Engineering International Leadership Conference”

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Liz Centoni

Executive Vice President

Chief Customer Experience Officer

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#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 23. Cisco Hosted Identity Services

CiscoChampion200PXbadge#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’ll be talking about Cisco Hosted Identity Services with Cisco Lead Architect Eric Eddy.

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Eric Eddy, Lead Architect for Cisco Hosted Identity Services

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Josh Warcop, @Warcop, Senior Consultant

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Brian Remmel (@bremmel) Continue reading “#CiscoChampion Radio S2|Ep 23. Cisco Hosted Identity Services”

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Rachel Bakker

Social Media Advocacy Manager

Digital and Social

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Digital Disruption for Life Sciences: Rx for Transformation

Co-authored with Ibrahim Khalid

According to a recent BMI study, R&D investments in Pharmaceuticals, places Life Sciences as a leader on the list of global ‘outperforming industries’. This may not be a surprise considering the confluence of factors from the global aging populations to the shift to value and outcomes as well as a highly politicized healthcare marketplace. In addition, the consumerization of health care is driving growth in multi-channel marketing and more social media and digital engagements.

This new frontier is truly the ‘digital disruption’ in this industry that is shaking up even the stodgiest companies. We are seeing renewed drive for innovation and investments in conversations with leading biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and medical device companies. Meanwhile, according to Gartner Group, today, “leading life science companies are increasing focus by establishing organizational entities that focus on digital innovation.” What is the prescription for tackling this new frontier? Rapid digital transformation enabled by Internet of Everything (IoE).

At the recent Generis BioManufacturing Summit, stakeholders across Life Sciences functional areas were seeking a greater technological edge to drive a competitive advantage. Randal Kenworthy presented on the topic of the Internet of Everything (IoE) and its impact on the Life Sciences industry, including use cases across the value chain from R&D to Connected Care. There was resounding agreement as we discussed the business drivers, which cluster around some common themes including:

  • How to accelerate research, lowering risks and improving health outcomes through precision medicine
  • How to better leverage information from new connected data sources with analytics.
  • The best practices around creating smart connected factories by enabling manufacturers to increase compliance, reduce cost and increase operation excellence with IoE
  • Steps to create a connected supply chain to increase visibility, traceability and compliance

In discussing case studies on improving patient health through Connected Care, we were struck by how exciting developments in virtual collaboration, data virtualization, medical grade networks and more can enable breakthrough innovations. A great example of that IoE innovation came from Jeremy Frank of Proteus Digital Health. Dr. Frank did a live demo of the digitization of health care by swallowing their sensor enabled pill that began displaying some of his health metrics live (over the Cisco network).

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Randal Kenworthy

Director, Business Transformation

Manufacturing - CPG and Life Sciences Industry Lead

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An Application-Centric Gem from Cisco Live US 2015

At Cisco Live 2015 in San Diego last week, we had a great turnout in customers and Cisco evangelists engaging in hundreds of conversations about the cloud, the future and present of networking, making new friends and having a good time.

In our Cisco Live Data Center press release and during Soni Jiandani’s Innovation Talk, we introduced a new member of the ACI ecosystem, CLiQr.  I want to highlight CliQr here to illustrate the power of the open APIC for definition of application policy intent for scale, security, and enabling simple, fast, self-service deployment of an application on private or public cloud infrastructure. This new demo with CliQr’s CloudCenter and ACI integration captures the cloud admin’s experience to define and deploy a 3-tier application across compute, network, and storage shared resources.


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Cisco ACI, when combined with CliQr’s CloudCenterTM Platform, delivers the promise of true end-to-end application-defined management of workloads in a secure and optimized ACI-powered cloud environment. The joint solution enables numerous advantages:

  • A highly automated, 1-click end-to-end provisioning of infrastructure (compute, storage and network) as per the application’s requirement, following the best-practices guidelines of the infrastructure.
  • Application-centric policy model that decouples policy (security, auditing, service-level agreements (SLAs), user experience, etc.) from network topology and supports application mobility
  • Application deployments are secured with CliQr CloudCenterTM’s governance policies and are enforced with ACI’s policy-based forwarding capabilities with strong isolation and automated insertion of Firewalls and security appliances into the application traffic flow.
  • End-to-end Visibility and Control: All of this delivered in a single graphical dashboard, providing true end-to-end visibility and control from the application down – all in one logical environment.

To learn more about Cisco ACI integration with CliQr CloudCenterTM register for the upcoming webinar June 18 here.

To Learn More:

Blog: CliQr Announces Support for Cisco ACI

White Paper: Cisco ACI and CliQr CloudCenterTM Integration and Solution Overview

Webcast: The Application-Defined Advantage – CliQr CloudCenterTM with Cisco ACI

Press Release: Cisco Extends SDN Leadership; Delivers Customer Choice for Data Center Programmability and Automation; Enhances Software and Expands Nexus Portfolio

Cisco Live Innovation Talk: INTGEN-1007 – Fast Track to Fast IT: Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure

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Harry Petty

Director

Data Center and Cloud Marketing

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Cisco Helps Spark New Zealand Serve Up The Voice Of The Future

 

Spark New ZealandRemember when voice was the original mobile network use-case? It was a much simpler time, with more network control, greater profit, and fewer competitors. Fast forward to today and like the rest of the Service Provider industry, mobile voice communications are changing, and changing very rapidly. Mobile networks must provide a cost-effective, rich user experience.

According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA), by the close of 2014 there were 360 mobile operators that had commercially launched LTE networks and service in 124 countries. Of those mobile operators only 14 had a commercially launched voice over LTE (VoLTE) service. Voice continues to be the most popular Continue reading “Cisco Helps Spark New Zealand Serve Up The Voice Of The Future”

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Jim O'Leary

Sr. Manager Mobile Solutions Marketing