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Samar Sharma

Intelligent Traffic Director for Nexus 9k/7k/6k/5k

Samar Sharma is a key innovator, architect and leader in the Data Center Switching Group.

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February 28, 2018

DATA CENTER

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…

October 30, 2017

DATA CENTER

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…

October 23, 2017

DATA CENTER

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…

September 28, 2017

DATA CENTER

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…

May 11, 2017

DATA CENTER

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…

March 29, 2017

DATA CENTER

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…

March 27, 2017

DATA CENTER

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…