IWAN

December 4, 2014

NETWORKING

What’s In Your Network? And What Are You Going to DO About it? Call Vodafone!

2 min read

Network customers have always bought networks for one and only one reason: to run their applications over them.  Yet for most of that time, those networks have been largely oblivious to the composition of the network traffic they carried.  Traditional network tools could tell you whether your network was having a lot of errors, or […]

November 18, 2014

NETWORKING

Have questions about Hybrid WANs? Quiz the Cisco Geeks!

1 min read

These are just a few of the many questions that were asked on the webinar ‘How to Deliver Uncompromising Branch Application Performance‘: Would DMVPN also allow me to easily integrate networks using multiple MPLS providers? Is there a specific router model, IOS required for a PfRv3 branch controller and master controller? Can you explain how […]

November 13, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

The Evolution of Branch Connectivity

3 min read

Over the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to come up from my rabbit hole of deployment projects and catch up on the tech news. In particular, the announcement at Interop New York where Cisco announced the new ISR 4400 family of routers along with a few other articles got me to thinking about how far branch office connectivity […]

October 30, 2014

NETWORKING

Is your WAN Stressed Out? Take the Intelligent WAN Workout

1 min read

If you have been following Cisco Blogs, attending CiscoLive, or reading industry publications like Network World,  you’ve probably heard about Cisco’s Intelligent WAN or IWAN solution. For those of you that haven’t been in the loop, have more questions, or are just plain curious about the Intelligent WAN, we have a short webinar series kicking […]

October 10, 2014

NETWORKING

Expanded IWAN Management with LiveAction 4.1

2 min read

LiveAction 4.1, shipped in late August, provides additional Cisco IWAN management features available with PfRv3 release, announced in July for ISR and ASR platforms. As Cisco’s preferred management solution for IWAN, LiveAction makes troubleshooting of performance routing issues easier through at-a-glance visual dashboards and simple workflows. LiveAction 4.1 leverages the scalability enhancements provided in version […]

October 2, 2014

PARTNER

Enabling the Branch for the Mobile Cloud Era

3 min read

This week at Interop New York, Cisco announced advancements in access routing to help partners transform businesses’ networks to support cloud and mobile solutions – the new Cisco ISR 4000 Series.

September 30, 2014

NETWORKING

Hybrid WAN Requires Advanced Network Services

5 min read

A few weeks back, Gartner analyst Bjarne Munch stated, “Internet and MPLS play an equally important role for enterprise connectivity. Network planners must establish a unified WAN with strong integration between these two networks to avoid performance problems.”[i] So, why should IT move to a hybrid WAN architecture? What are the benefits? #1 – Control […]

September 24, 2014

NETWORKING

Improve Your Business Results with Mobility and Analytics

3 min read

When it comes to delivering better business outcomes, many IT people could be sitting on a virtual goldmine – particularly when it comes to location analytics. Here are some new ways that you can extract more of that valuable information from your network, and some things to think about as you add new services and […]