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Catena and Other Innovations
Do you ever use a Firewall, Load-balancer, WAAS, IPS, WSA or any other L4-L7 device in your network? How is your experience, when you have to introduce a new virtual/physical device in your network? When you have multiple departments/tenants sharing these devices? Catena is a cutting edge innovation…
Catena: A Disruptive Innovation
It was about 18 months ago, when I started a new project called “Catena”. It was based on my inventions in the area of application-chaining, security, segmentation and L4-L7 applications integration. I also lead/managed the team to design, develop, validate and deliver the product to cus…
Load-Balancing at Scale
Traditional load-balancers have operated at multi-Gbps speeds. Our recent inventions allow us to scale the load-balancing speed to multi-Tbps. Today’s data centers have 1000s of web, application and database servers. Each server is already capable of serving multi-Gbps traffic. Hence there is…
Innovating and Winning Awards
The Best of Interop 2017 award winners were announced at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. As the innovator and leader of these technologies, I was asked by several media representatives for an interview. Here is a short interview by Information Week news desk. Best of Interop Awards are like the Oscars o…
Catena selected as finalist in Leading Lights awards
Recently Lightreading announced the finalists for the prestigious leading lights awards. One of the most coveted categories of these awards is Most Innovative Telecoms Product or Service (Fixed/Carrier Ethernet/Optical). Catena has been selected as finalist in this category. Organizers mention that…
iCAM
iCAM (Intelligent CAM) is Cisco’s breakthrough innovation that provides traffic analytics, per-feature hardware usage, recommendations and more, natively on the switch/router. So why is this important? In today’s datacenter network, customers lack visibility into traffic patterns inside and outsid…
Catena
Catena is a multi-terabit service chaining, security, load-balancing, analytics and L4-L7 applications integration solution. Eg, Catena can perform these operations at 40 Tbps. Have you ever found yourself entangled in deploying multiple applications, L4-L7 services, network devices, VMs and Contain…
CCIE : ITD and RISE in CCIE Data Center
ITD and RISE are now part of CCIE Data Center: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccie_data_center/written-exam-v2/exam-topics Intelligent Traffic Director (ITD) is a hardware based multi-terabit layer 4 load-balancing, traffic steering and services insertion solution on the…
Server Load balancing with NAT, using Nexus switches: ITD
Server load balancer (SLB) has become very common in network deployments, as the data & video traffic are expanding at rapid rate. There are various modes of SLB deployments today. Application load balancing with network address translation (NAT) has become a necessity for various benefits. Cisc…
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