Eric Voit

Director of Technology Architecture
Cisco’s central network software organization (NOSTG)

Eric is Director of Technology Architecture within Cisco’s central network software organization. From there he manages ~20 industry luminaries who define new business models and networking protocols in areas such as SDN, IPv6, PMIPv6, YANG, TrustSec, MediaNet, EVPN, Ethernet OAM, 3rd party APIs, Identity, Virtualization, Mobility, and other emerging technologies.

Before succumbing to the lure of management, Eric drove a number of technologies into the market during his 12+ years at Cisco and 13+ years at Verizon. These include originating Cisco’s system architectures for Carrier Ethernet, specifying new Broadband subscriber services, designing the first VoIP offering trialed by a US Incumbent Telco, and proposing PPPoE for Broadband.

Eric is the inventor of 60+ US & international patents relating to Internet Telephony, Carrier Ethernet, Advanced Intelligent Networking, Voice and Video over Broadband, PSTN switching, and Operations Support databases.

Eric Voit's Articles

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  Architect & DE Discussions

  OpenDaylight: Understanding the Value Propositions

  April 8, 2013 - 0 Comments

  The announcement today of OpenDaylight is big news.  Industry leading companies are partnering via Open Source to serve an emerging set of market needs: Operators: want affordable real-time orchestration and operation of integrated

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  From Cisco Live London: Architecture updates posted here all week…

  January 28, 2013 - 0 Comments

  I am sitting and reflecting here at the start of Cisco Live London. As I walk the halls, I continue to be amazed by the size, depth, and breadth of

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  Virtualization, SDN, and Radically Simplified Operations

  January 2, 2013 - 2 Comments

  Today many look to SDN as the next big revolution in Networking.  But why is there such hype?  What radical change in the economics of networking will shift the industry? 

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  Enterprise SDN: Moving from box boundaries to software boundaries

  November 1, 2012 - 1 Comment

  Enterprise trends driving SDN and Network Programmability are becoming clearer.  The skyrocketing number of virtual/cloud devices is making human configuration infeasible.  A natural result will be that networks will move

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  History as a guide to SDN’s coming evolution

  August 8, 2012 - 0 Comments

  I developed Intelligent Network (IN) services and platforms during the early 1990s.  With IN, Unix based controllers were connected to traditional telephone switches to perform both obscure as well as massively deployed

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  2010+ networking software: how to open up, how to speed new ideas to market

  June 15, 2012 - 5 Comments

  The onePK announcement Ric describes in the previous blog entry is game changing. It also intersects a trend which has gone fairly unnoticed in the networking standards areas. The importance

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  An Operational Simplification Race is on to Displace CLI

  June 6, 2012 - 0 Comments

  “Boiled frog syndrome” refers to a fable that when you put a frog in hot water, it jumps out.  However if you slowly heat up the water the frog is

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