Ravi Chandrasekaran

All enterprises are in a constant state of digital flux, striving to keep existing business processes running efficiently while pushing to build new applications to satisfy customer and B2B requirements. Underlying these initiatives is the enterprise network, connecting employees and applications to…

About four years ago, my team at Cisco sat down to re-architect enterprise networking, because we knew that the traditional models for running networks were not going to be able to scale with the changes being forced on to them. For example, we saw that the number and types of devices connecting to…

Earlier this week we unveiled an important evolution to our intent-based networking suite: Platform capabilities for DNA Center. It gives Cisco partners and customers a way to program applications that take advantage of their networks’ capabilities – without requiring detailed knowledge of the parti…

The transportation industry is undergoing unprecedented disruption that we read about in news every day.  Several companies are envisioning how transportation of humans and cargo will work in the future – from self-driving cars to magnetic levitation trains. Due to this renewed technology-driven reb…

Today’s network was devised decades ago. Over the years, it has been stretched to meet the ever-growing needs of enterprises – tinkered, tweaked and extended. It is time for a major reset. To take on this major shift in networking, we at Cisco introduced the Network Intuitive earlier this year…

Cisco LaunchPad’s startup cohort #2 graduated with resounding success. All eight startups received an enthusiastic response from investors, partners, and the Cisco Community. Currently, Cisco LaunchPad has 16 startup alums, of which seven are actively engaged with Cisco on technology and Go-to-Marke…

Digitization has resulted in an explosion of people, devices and processes interacting with each other. The current network, built to connect just people, is clearly incapable of meeting this demand. There is a need for unprecedented scale, automation, seamless mobility, visibility and security in t…

We started the journey of Cisco LaunchPad with the vision of creating an ecosystem to deliver end-to-end digital solutions for customers. Cisco LaunchPad is an ecosystem of startups, technology leaders, partners, and developers. It was very gratifying to have the first startup cohort of Cisco Launch…

For 27th time since 1972, a leap second is confirmed for 2016. It will take place on December 31 and to ensure our customers have everything they need to know about this upcoming event, Cisco has published an Information Page on Cisco.com. Similar to a leap year, the leap second helps bring our trac…