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Why I Chose the Open Source Model I did for OpenDaylight
Open at CiscoNow that OpenDaylight has arrived, it’s time to explain why I made the Open Source choices eventually embraced by its Founders and the community at large. One doesn’t often see such leaders as
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Announcing Cisco Wireless Release 7.5
MobilityWith the prevalence of mobile devices connecting people and things today, we are seeing a base expectation for uncompromised wireless connectivity. There is no doubt that the trend for high
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Success with Cisco Bonjour Services Directory
MobilityHave you seen this video? For those of you who are not familiar with the technology, Bonjour is a multicast DNS(mDNS) based protocol used to advertise and connect to network
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Wireless Controller Redundancy with No Client Reauthentication Needed
MobilityLast fall, I blogged about No SSID Outage or Access Point Stateful Switchover introduced with the AireOS 7.3 release whereby if your wireless LAN Controller fails due to some hardware
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What is a “Controller”? And how many do we need?
Architect & DE DiscussionsThanks to SDN, the “Controller” word pops up in many network architecture discussions these days. In networking alone, we’re already surrounded by many “controllers” and we’re busy introducing more as
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802.11ac: Is Your Network Infrastructure Ready for Next-Gen Wi-Fi Traffic?
MobilityThe next generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11ac couples the freedom of wireless with the speed of gigabit Ethernet. This also translates in additional load on the backbone of the network, which
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Cisco will ride the 802.11ac Wave2
MobilityIf you recall, back in the early days of 802.11n, the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) rolled out the 802.11n certification program in phases. Here we are several years later and in
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Listen Up! Spotlight on NSA Show & Cisco Podcast Series
MobilityAs some of you already know, we’ve teamed up with the popular wireless networking podcast “No Strings Attached” to release a mobility podcast series. We’ve recorded 6 podcasts, and counting!
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On Converged Access & Wireless Controller 5760: A Screenplay
MobilityAt Cisco Live London, Cisco unveiled Wired & Wireless convergence, along with its associated products, the Wireless LAN Controller 5760 and the Catalyst Switch 3850 with built-in Wireless Controller. While
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Mythbusters: Unified Access Edition: Part 5
MobilityThere’s been a lot of buzz around our recent Cisco Unified Access Solution announcement. We understand there is also some confusion around what’s what, what’s required for Unified Access, and
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