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Scott Harrell

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Enterprise Networking Business

Scott Harrell is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Enterprise Networking Business. In this role, he is responsible for product management, user experience, and business development for all enterprise networking products and solutions. This multibillion-dollar portfolio consists of the industry’s broadest range of routers, switches, and wireless that span the campus, access, and wide area networks.

Since joining Cisco in 2001, Harrell has held leadership roles in product management and engineering in the Enterprise Networking and Security businesses where he has helped define and build technology portfolios to meet the rapidly evolving demands of digital businesses.

Most recently, Harrell led product management for Cisco’s security business where he helped transform Cisco’s world-class security portfolio and transition the business to a software led business model. In this role, he was also responsible for the product strategy and the integration of several successful acquisitions.

Prior to Cisco, Harrell worked in a strategic planning role at Intel Corporation. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Bachelors of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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February 13, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro: A Win for Users and Admins

The latest iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro remind us that the iPhone is a great business partner. The blend of advanced capabilities in iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, and features built through the strategic partnership between Apple and Cisco, make the new models excellent devices both for users, and for…

October 23, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Building the Network of the Future – Powered by AI

The network is the foundation of nearly every piece of every business today. Nearly all employees are online, on company-supported and their own devices. The equipment their businesses rely on is networked too, from basic production tools to advanced manufacturing robots. Even the physical devices t…

September 16, 2019

NETWORKING

iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro: A Win for Users and Admins

Last week’s announcements of the all-new iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro remind us that the iPhone is a great business partner. The blend of  advanced capabilities in iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, and features built through the strategic partnership between Apple and Cisco, make the new models excellent…

June 10, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Intelligent Next Step for Intent-Based Networking

We, and our customers, have long understood that networks are most valuable when they do more than support their own weight. They become assets only when they enable the growth of business strategies. To get networks to work at this level, we have to get a higher level of performance and agility fro…

April 29, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Unplugged and Uninterrupted: What’s Driving Networking Today

Offices. Hospitals. Factories. Hotels. Universities. Sports arenas. In my job, I talk to the people around the world who run technology for all of these types of operations. They tell me that more wireless devices than ever are joining their networks, and that if they have no Wi-Fi, they have no bus…

February 21, 2019

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

New Wireless Frontiers for the Enterprise: 5G, Wi-Fi 6, and CBRS

2019 is going to be an incredible year in wireless networking. Enterprises are going to be able to take advantage of several important innovations. First, 5G carrier-based wireless is going to start rolling out broadly, bringing a promise of dramatically better performance to mobile workers and the…

December 17, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

CRN’s Awards Validate Cisco’s Vision for Intent-Based Networking

The Enterprise Networking team at Cisco got a great holiday present this year. CRN, the voice of the reseller channel, released its Products of the Year feature, and two of our most important initiatives won in their categories. The fact that we won in two giant categories means the world to Cisco,…

November 13, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Intent-Based Networking Everywhere

The next step in intent-based networking is putting it in more places. We launched our intent-based networking portfolio a year ago with the introduction of the Catalyst 9000 line of switches and Cisco DNA Center. These products support a new way to build and operate networks: They capture business…

August 1, 2018

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Why I’m So Thrilled to Welcome the Location Services Company, July Systems, to Cisco

Today, Cisco is closing the acquisition of July Systems, the cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform that has been powering the Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX) Engage solution in our Wireless Networking portfolio. I am very happy to welcome the team onboard. The technolo…