IWAN

December 24, 2013

NETWORKING

IWAN Starter Kit and CiscoChampions

3 min read

Over the weekend I had a brief twitter chat with someone who mentioned he had been wondering 'what the heck is IWAN?' (I'm paraphrasing here) and...

December 13, 2013

NETWORKING

Using the Internet for Your Enterprise WAN

5 min read

What is all of this talk coming from Cisco of using Internet links to run an Enterprise-class network? Has Cisco lost its mind? We’re taught from the time we’re young Network Engineers sitting on our parents’ knees that Enterprise Networks are special. So what is the thinking with IWAN?

December 9, 2013

NETWORKING

Learning Opportunities This Week With Cisco Experts on IWAN and CMX

1 min read

This week we have two opportunities for you to learn about Cisco technologies from company experts as well as our technology partners. The first webinar, How Smarter Branches Lower Costs,  is on Wednesday, December 11 at 8am Pacific and discusses how Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) along with Akamai’s Unified Performance solution can help your branch offices can realistically utilize […]

December 2, 2013

NETWORKING

Megatrends: Does the network care about the application?

5 min read

With several key applications moving to the clouds, how do our customers ensure application performance? What if they deploy for instance Public or Private Hosted solutions or hybrid WAN, how do they ensure application experience? Today, we all see more and more new delivery models such as Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud or Public Cloud, new […]

October 1, 2013

NETWORKING

A Brave New World for IT: Internet as WAN

5 min read

Today’s IT organizations are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Most face an avalanche of new bandwidth requirements hitting their networks, yet too few resources to support the business’ needs.  In 2013, three out of four organizations will not have any additional wide area network (WAN) budget (Nemertes Research). That means 75% of […]