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Steven Song

Business Manager

Steven Song is a business manager at Cisco. Steven's primary responsibilities include working with customers to help them adopt strategic Internet technologies and solutions. Steven has worked extensively with the product business units, customers and the industry to accelerate customer networking solution adoption and deployment. Prior to his present position, Steven was a Security Architect for the Corporate Security Programs Organization at Cisco. Steven holds a PhD degree (Ohio State University) in Physics. Steven is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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December 2, 2015

NETWORKING

Celebrate the Holiday Season with Better Security Defense

Holidays are here. It is time to take a pause from work for travels and family celebrations. But hackers are not taking a rest. Just recently, a major hotel chain reported that it suffered a security breach related to customer credit and debit card payments. The hospitality industry is certainly not…

April 28, 2015

NETWORKING

Bringing Up a New Branch Site the Easy Way with Prime Infrastructure – Part 5

Last week, I concentrated on how to use Cisco Prime Infrastructure to do troubleshooting for your network. Today, as the 5th and final post of my 5-part blog series, I’ll look at how to maintain network health for your branch site users with Prime. As a quick recap, here’s my blog series on how to s…

April 21, 2015

NETWORKING

Bringing Up a New Branch Site the Easy Way with Prime Infrastructure – Part 4

Last week, I went through application assurance with Cisco Prime Infrastructure. Today, as the 4th post of a 5-part blog series, I’ll go into troubleshooting for your branch site with Prime. Again, as a quick recap, here’s my blog series on how to set up networking with Prime for a new branch site.…

April 14, 2015

NETWORKING

Bringing Up a New Branch Site the Easy Way with Prime Infrastructure – Part 3

Last week, I discussed with you how to set up and managed converged wired and wireless access with Cisco Prime Infrastructure. Here, as the 3rd post of our 5-part blog series, I’ll focus on how to ensure application performance for your branch site users with Prime. Again, here’s my blog series plan…

April 7, 2015

NETWORKING

Bringing Up a New Branch Site the Easy Way with Prime Infrastructure – Part 2

Last week, I shared with you how to set up WAN networking with Cisco Prime Infrastructure. Today, as the second blog of my 5-part blog series, I’m going to discuss with you how to connect your branch site users to the LAN and wireless network with Prime. Before I go further, just as a quick heads up…

March 31, 2015

NETWORKING

Bringing Up a New Branch Site the Easy Way with Prime Infrastructure – Part 1

If you have a need to set up networking for a new satellite clinic, a bank branch, a retail store or any other branch site, you probably have a lot of pressure to do it fast. After all, branches are where business actions take place. Did you know that branch locations and users consume 70% ~ 90% of…

February 10, 2015

NETWORKING

Multigigabit Switching Extends and Super-charges Your Access LAN’s Life

If the phrase “multigigabit switching” is not in your personal knowledge base yet, you are not alone – it’s very new. But going forward, you’ll hear a lot about it. Here’s why.  Multigigabit switching is an emerging technology that shatters the Ethernet speed barriers found in the LAN infrastr…

January 15, 2015

NETWORKING

NBASE-T Alliance Panel at Cisco Live Milan Presents A Rare Opportunity

The wireless world is going through rapid changes. 802.11ac, the fifth generation of WiFi, is poised for accelerated deployment which will dramatically change the user experience with more bandwidth, more speed and a higher number of concurrent client connections. In fact, nearly a quarter of all ne…

December 2, 2014

NETWORKING

Defeat IT Complexity To Free Time For Innovation

When Apple Pay was announced in September this year, it brought a lot of attention to the digital payment business. But this is certainly not the first sign that we are moving rapidly towards a digital society. For example, Starbucks has been doing this for years by handling millions of mobile walle…