SVS Engineers: Who are the people that test-drive your network?
Cisco Solution Validation Services (SVS) engineers design tailored test blueprints, validate complex network deployments in labs, and deliver future-proof, reliable solutions.
Dr. Sebastian Jeuk
Lead Test Architect
Solution Validation Services, CX
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Solution Validation Services Matter More Than Ever Before
Cisco Solution Validation Services (SVS) are a critical component of the solution lifecycle. See the difference validation can make—not just in preventing costly failures like misconfigured security policies, incompatible integrations, or performance bottlenecks under load, but in delivering true operational confidence.
OpenStack ASR1000 Plugin: New Features
In my previous February 2015 blog post, I reviewed a new plugin for the OpenStack Neutron service plugin environment enabling customers to leverage the hardware platform ASR 1000. At that point the plugin was based on the Icehouse OpenStack version with limited feature support. Over the last several months we have been continuing the work on later OpenStack […]
Scaling OpenStack L3 using Cisco ASR1K platform
Cisco has developed a plug-in to integrate the ASR 1000 Series Router (ASR1K) into OpenStack to offload L3 capabilities on to dedicated routing hardware. The plug-in was demonstrated at Cisco Live in a Proof-of-Concept environment. We are planning demos of a Cloud solution based on the ASR1k plug-in at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. The plug-in […]
Investigating OpenStacks Multicast capabilities (Part 1 of 3)
This is my first blog post within the Data Center and Cloud technology area. I recently joined the Openstack@Cisco team under Lew Tucker focusing on advanced OpenStack System research as a Cloud Architect. As part of this role I performed a gap analysis on the functionality (or the lack thereof) of multicast within an OpenStack […]