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Craig Hill

Distinguished Systems Engineer

U.S. Public Sector, CTO Office

Craig Hill has been working at Cisco for 24 years and is a Distinguished Systems Engineer in the U.S. Public Sector CTO office, with a focus in designing large-scale end-to-end architectures in DoD/Intelligence networks and large enterprises.

Current focus areas include large-scale WAN designs, SD-WAN transitions, high-speed encryption, cloud network architectures, and incorporating NetDevOps tools and concepts into network operations. Craig is a 22 year CCIE (#1628 Emeritus) in Routing and Switching, a 10 year speaker at Cisco Live, and is based out of the Cisco office in Herndon, VA.

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August 21, 2019

GOVERNMENT

Network automation: offering choices now key

In June 2017, as the Software Defined Networking (SDN) hype-machine was in full-force, I wrote a blog that targeted the various options that existed for customers looking to dive into the world of network automation. More specifically, I discussed Cisco’s approach to SDN and automation that offers o…

September 6, 2017

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GOVERNMENT

Prevent an Encryption Bottleneck on High-Speed Links

What if you had a car with a powerful, turbo-charged engine that could fly along at 130 mph —until you turned on the air conditioner and watched the max speed drop to 50? Pick up two friends, and it struggles to maintain 30 mph. This would be depressing for you as a driver, but it does make a good a…

June 15, 2017

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GOVERNMENT

Moving From CLI to Automation? You Have Choices.

Software Defined Networking (SDN), and the dizzying number of different ways IT organizations define it, continues to be a moving target. However, whatever the definition of SDN is this month, it is clear from talking to customers and seeing how the large web and cloud providers are transforming the…