Anand Oswal

The networking field is changing fast. This year, several emerging technologies will fundamentally impact how businesses and their employees connect. The good news is that each technology also represents a solid opportunity to improve some aspect of how a company runs – from network efficiency all t…

Thinking about our new corporate theme Bridge to Possible, unveiled at the 2018 Partner Summit, it seems to me that phrase encapsulates what we have been doing for many years in Enterprise Networking. We’ve been building bridges from data center to campus to branch to mobile workforce—with bridges t…

We’ve been examining the benefits of Intent-Based Networking and seeing how organizations are using Cisco’s programmable network platform to improve application performance and transform rigid business processes into flexible digital workflows. Wireless access, in particular, plays a significant rol…

Cisco SD-WAN technology is already enhancing networks by efficiently connecting branches, colocation, data center, and cloud resources into the information fabric that unites a distributed enterprise. But it’s at the Cloud Edge—the intersection of the network, cloud, and security–where businesses al…

The Radical Evolution of Networks Networks are the essential infrastructure that delivers the power of data in all its forms to support our interconnected civilization. We are all utterly dependent on networks to connect business systems, employees, customers, citizens—well, basically everybody and…

While some technologies quickly attain market traction, others go through cycles of enthusiasm followed by dips in excitement as the difficulty in managing the complex relationships among devices, software, and networks becomes apparent. Such was the promise of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) proximity s…

If a heart monitor can’t keep a consistent connection to the nurses’ station, is the patient stable or in distress? If a WAN link to a retail chain store goes down, can the point of sale still process charge cards?  If gas wellheads are leaking methane and the LTE connection is unavailable, how much…

Your distributed office wide area networks are about to get disrupted—in a good way. Software-defined WANs are upgrading application performance to enable people in branch offices, stores, and clinics to operate at peak efficiency. But before today, many organization needed to upgrade their hardware…

I touched on the problem of Shadow IT in the expanding world of IoT in a previous blog A Security Fabric for IoT. But there is another ecosystem of applications and hardware besides IoT devices to manage in the realm of Shadow IT. From the old days of departments buying OTS packaged software for spe…