Anand Oswal

What’s Really Out There in IoT Cyberspace? Do you know what is connected to your network right now? If you don’t, your network is vulnerable to attacks you might never see coming. You can’t protect what you don’t know exists. You’re in good company if you’re mistaken about what’s connecting to…

Suppose you wanted to have the ability to know where hundreds of ship-board guests were spending their time on a cruise—pool-side, buffet, bar, theatre—to improve the guest experience. Or in a healthcare environment, you need to know where critical medical equipment is located in real time. In a mul…

I’m going to bet that you’ve been in this predicament before. You’re attending a conference, taking notes on your phone/tablet/laptop. An urgent question arises that you know you have the answer to in your email and so you hit search. Wheels spin, cursors blink, and nothing happens. Looking around y…

Charting our progress on how we’re making networking simple again Organizations worldwide are continuously adding more devices, more controls, more security, and better segmentation in a never-ending push to connect everyone and everything. Cisco is dedicating our significant engineering resources t…

We love our mobile devices, don’t we? And the numbers prove it. The Cisco Visual Networking Index reports that there are 17 billion devices connected to worldwide networks today and will increase to 27 billion by 2021. As a result, data flowing from wireless, mobile, and IoT devices will account for…

As WAN network administrators, we have all run into that situation where a business group wants to roll out a new service, and we realize there is not enough bandwidth available in many of our locations. It then typically will take 90 – 120 days to add new bandwidth and then hours of dealing w…

Introducing Software Defined Application Visibility and Control The Network Intuitive has ushered in a new era networking and as the landscape of this era reveals itself, it becomes apparent that there are several innovative ways of managing the network. One such service, that my team has been passi…

2017 was a pivotal year for enterprise networking. In 2016, the internet crossed a milestone threshold when it reached an annual run rate of one Zettabytes, with the majority on mobile devices. As the Zettabyte era dawned, networking needed to be brought up to speed. And this year, I am proud to say…

As technology marches forward, we’re using and creating more high-tech products than we imagined! Who would have thought of a cab hailing service running on our phones a decade ago? Or, the sheer ingenuity of renting out a vacation home via a web app when you’re not using it? But for each of these a…