Logistics leader leverages digital investments to become employer of choice

Logistics companies around the world faced an uphill battle during the pandemic – but it also accelerated their learning curve for all things digital. One of the most prominent logistics players in the Asia Pacific region, who leveraged their relationship with Cisco to transform their network during…

Cisco and Government of Malaysia unveil collaboration framework to help accelerate digitization

News Summary Malaysian Government and Cisco leadership hold official meeting on the fringes of the US-ASEAN Special Summit in Washington, DC to define digitization initiatives. Scope of collaboration includes partnering and leveraging expertise through Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration…

April 28, 2022

PEOPLE AND CULTURE

Careers, connections, and Cisco ANZ VETs network

By Emma Crome, success programs manager, Cisco. Emma is also the new lead of the Cisco VETS employee network for veteran enablement and troop support.  Careers After graduating high school I enlisted into the Royal Australian Navy as a Communications Information Systems (CIS) sailor, initially…

April 27, 2022

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Cisco Marks World’s First with the Deployment of SRv6 Flex-Algo on SoftBank Corp.’s 5G Commercial Network

Japanese | English Agile and Advanced Traffic Engineering Enables SoftBank to Bring New Range of 5G Services to Market Cisco announced today that SoftBank Corp., a Japan-based operator that provides telecommunications services and combines them with advanced technologies to develop and operate…

April 27, 2022

CORPORATE NEWS

Cisco welcomes new country manager for New Zealand

Cisco has appointed a new country manager for New Zealand, with Garrett Heraty taking up the position, joining the senior leadership team from the 9 May 2022. Garrett brings experience from the USA, where he was most recently the client executive for Amazon. A global Cisco veteran, Garrett has worked…

April 26, 2022

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Securely realizing the ‘zero hardware footprint’ vision in the hybrid work era

IT service providers (ITSPs) have made a name for themselves helping customers in every industry make the transition to digital. Over the past decade, they’ve seen double digit growth, hit trillion-dollar revenue targets, and continue to make headway as a catalyst to the world’s demand for digital…

April 25, 2022

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Cisco to Optimize Infrastructure of NTT Plala’s Video Streaming Service, “Hikari-TV” with Cisco Nexus and ACI

Japanese | English Enabling Unified Management of System Monitoring and Operation with Scalability for Large Scale Services Cisco Systems G.K. announced today that NTT Plala Inc. adopted Cisco’s SDN Solution, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), and software management…

April 21, 2022

INNOVATION

Cisco joins the celebration with Curtin University and partners with the successful Trailblazer Hub bid

Cisco is delighted to be a key industry partner in the Curtin University led Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer Hub. This pathbreaking university – industry consortium is set to help drive impactful research and commercialisation in Australia’s resources technology and critical…

April 19, 2022

MOBILITY

The Promise of 6 GHz

Last month, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) opened the lower 500 MHz of the 6 GHz band for license-exempt (class license) use, opening the door for Wi‑Fi 6E in Australia. Australia is now the third country in the Asia Pacific region to open the band, with Malaysia also opening…