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What to consider for your Software-Defined Branch?
As we have discussed in our Software-Defined Branch (SD-Branch) blog series, Part 1 examined SD-Branch hardware and software, while Part 2 explored orchestration and management options. To sum it up-the Cisco SD-Branch solution provides a simplified, software-based approach to branch office network…
Cisco Tools for SD-Branch Orchestration and Management
As we have discussed in this series, enterprise and service providers are consolidating network services from dedicated hardware appliances into virtualized on-demand applications running on branch office software with centralized orchestration and management. Eliminating the hardware need for each…
Why Cisco SD-Branch is better than a ‘white box’
A typical branch office IT installation consists of multiple point products, each having a specific function, engineered into a rigid topology. Changing something in that chain, be it adding a new function or connection, increasing bandwidth, or introducing encryption, affects multiple separate prod…
Cisco Continues WAN Optimization Leadership with the Release of Next-Generation Platform
To function properly, most cloud based applications need good bandwidth and low latency and in large-scale WAN deployments, latency, bandwidth constraints, and packet loss are inevitable. SDWAN promises to overcome application performance bottlenecks associated with network architectures that were…
Momentum is growing for the Cisco ISR-AX!
It has been a couple of weeks since its launch and we are seeing lots of interest in the Cisco ISR-AX! I have been hearing from customers, partners and folks worldwide about how they are using the new ISR-AX platforms now and get a router, VPN, firewall, intrusion prevention, cloud/web security, A…
Cisco ISR-AX is Now a Part of the Integrated Services Router Family!
On March 12th, Cisco announced the ISR-AX and how Cisco is changing the game, reducing complexity and making it simpler for enterprises to deliver and manage application delivery to users. Cisco is expanding the role of our Integrated Service Routers (ISRs) to deliver application-centric networks t…