Robb Boyd

I was very excited to finally get a chance to cover Tetration, especially when I learned that Cisco IT wanted to weigh-in on their experience with the platform. As you know, IT isn’t prone to blindness by “shiny objects.” They’re interested in solving real problems, and Cisco IT is no different.

The idea of ‘one size fits all’ never worked for me. And it certainly does not work for picking a cloud vendor. CliQr has become Cisco CloudCenter and you will love how easy this is making things.

Light-Emitting Diodes (LED’s) create light by sending an electrical signal to a sandwich of semiconductor materials to create electromagnetic radiation that we see as light or ‘Electroluminescence’. It’s actually a specific wavelength of light depending on the chemical make-up of the materials used.

Cisco announced “the industry’s first fully integrated, threat-focused Next Generation Firewall. “ But what the heck is ‘fully integrated’ and ‘threat focused?’ These sound like important distinctions.

So as to avoid burying the lead, you will get a chance to experience Enterprise Network Function Virtualization (E-NFV), APIC-EM updates and demonstration, the network as a security sensor with a little Lancope update, changes to CMX now in a ‘cloud’ version, and end to end quality control for applications like Jabber…end to end QoS.

Enterprise NFV is focused on bringing this SDN style functionality to your branch office capabilities. Any large enterprise is thinking like a service provider these days because the IT department (or whatever you might call it now) are providing business critical functions. The faster it can be done, the more it can be used and at the lowest cost..the better.

How the Digital Age has us re-thinking the victor of the AC/DC wars.

How well do you understand the data bottleneck that NBASE-T Alliance is helping us solve? What are the cost effective options for preserving your cable investment? Robb Boyd explains in this latest, ‘Fundamentals of NBASE-T’ from TechWiseTV.

BGP EVPN brings both layer 2 and 3 capabilities to the hamstrung overlay but how would it work for your network? How well do you understand the additional benefits and limitations of this design?