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Tim Stevenson

Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer

DC Switching Marketing

Tim Stevenson is a Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer working on Cisco Data Center products and solutions. Tim has worked at Cisco since 1994, with over 25 years of experience working with Cisco switching platforms, including the Nexus 9000, Nexus 7000, and Catalyst 6500. Tim is Routing & Switching CCIE #5561.

Articles

April 28, 2023

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus 9000 Intelligent Buffers in a VXLAN/EVPN Fabric

6 min read

This blog post addresses some of the common areas of confusion and concern, and touches on a few best practices for maximizing the value of using Cisco Nexus 9000 switches for Data Center fabric deployments by leveraging the available Intelligent Buffering capabilities.

November 4, 2021

DATA CENTER

End-to-End Flow State Validation with Nexus Dashboard Insights Connectivity Analysis

6 min read

The Nexus Dashboard Insights Connectivity Analysis tool delivers a new level of simplicity and efficiency to the traditionally error-prone and time-consuming task of validating the end-to-end path between endpoints experiencing performance issues or packet loss.

July 15, 2021

DATA CENTER

Nanosecond Buffer Visibility with Hardware-Based Microburst Detection

4 min read

Learn how the advanced hardware capabilities of Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches, the streaming telemetry provided by NX-OS, and the cutting-edge microservices-based Day 2 Operations functions provided by Nexus Dashboard Insights application simplify the process of identifying congestion in the network before it becomes a significant problem.