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Richard Licon

Principle Technical Marketing, Engineering

Product Management - Competitive Insights

Richard Licon has worked for Cisco for over 21 years. Began his career in networking back in 1998. His primary duties include competitive test and analysis for Switching solution architectures.

Richard is a bay area native along with his wife and two children. His passions are being with family. He loves playing, watching, and on rare occasions coaching competitive sports.

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December 8, 2022

DATA CENTER

EVPN Myth Buster Series – To lead or follow, where does Cisco stand?

6 min read

Over the past several decades, Cisco has demonstrated its leadership in networking by leading technology innovations that meet and exceed customers’ needs and then enabling the adoption of these technologies across organizations, driving standardization.

October 26, 2022

DATA CENTER

Myth Busting Part 5: Eliminating the tedium and guesswork of network troubleshooting

3 min read

Cisco's advanced capabilities that network operators can only get with Cisco Nexus Dashboard Insights, the network monitoring, analysis, and automation engine of Cisco Nexus Dashboard.

September 21, 2022

DATA CENTER

Myth Busting Part 4: Managing your networks from the cloud

3 min read

If you’re still using spreadsheets and CLIs – or if you’re looking for a simple and flexible network management toolset – perhaps it’s time to consider a cloud-based alternative.  

August 8, 2022

DATA CENTER

Myth Busting Part 3: Not all 400G and 800G switches are created equally

3 min read

While other network providers continue to use commodity chips, Cisco has been developing custom silicon for Nexus switches since 2014. Creating our own ASIC was the only way to fully realize the promise of software-defined networking and enable advanced capabilities like network segmentation, flexible forwarding, intelligent buffering, and deep telemetry.

March 24, 2022

DATA CENTER

Myth Busting Part 2: Theoretical vs. tested?

3 min read

Customers expect complete vendor transparency when it comes to equipment performance in a production deployment. This is where Cisco goes above and beyond the competition, being fully transparent with publicly available verified scalability guides for cloud networking infrastructure and controllers, tested in environments using unidimensional and multidimensional configurations for single and multi-site environments.

March 2, 2022

DATA CENTER

Myth Busting Part 1: What is a turnkey automation solution?

4 min read

Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) outperforms other networking vendor automation tools. It provides an easy-to-use and reliable way for customers to adopt an automation framework with minimal input.

May 13, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco Drives Intent-Based Networking Forward with Multi-Level Segmentation

4 min read

Why network segmentation matters in the enterprise of today Network Segmentation easily gets lost in a conversation as it is a heavily used term in the industry. Everyone claims to...

November 1, 2017

NETWORKING

Wired Infrastructure: Optimized and Secure Switching Resources

4 min read

Cisco commissioned Miercom to conduct an independent performance test on Huawei’s Agile Campus Network architecture. The test report consists of wired and wireless test cases. For the wired test cases, Huawei’s S5720-HI Series Agile Switch was compared and validated against the Cisco Catalyst 9300 and 3850 Series switches. This blog will take a deeper look […]

June 7, 2017

NETWORKING

Miercom Report: Secured Network Infrastructure

3 min read

Recently, the independent testing lab Miercom pitted Cisco against HPE/Aruba in a test to see who had the best level of visibility to provide stronger securiry. Spoiler alert: it was Cisco!