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Steve Simlo

IPv6 Product Manager NOSTG

Steve Simlo is the IPv6 PM in Cisco Network Operating System Technology Group. Steve has global responsibility for IPv6 delivery across Cisco core platforms. Steve has 18 years experience in Cisco and 29 years in the Industry. In previous roles Steve has driven the deployment of IP Multicast Technologies across EMEAR SP and Enterprise customers and has worked with Video, QoS, MPLS, ATM and Lan Switched Architectures.

In previous lives Steve was employed as a Systems Engineer in IBM UK and as an Applications Engineer in Motorola Codex. Steve lives in Edinburgh in Scotland with his wife and children and enjoys walking, tennis, cycling, gardening and cooking when he is not delivering IPv6 roadmaps.

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Cisco Live San Diego 2015 – IPv6 “the wrap”

Cisco Live US landed back in San Diego this year and (together with 25,000 others) I packed my bags for a week of technology dialogue and professional excitement. Here is my personal summary of (what is always) one of my favourite weeks of the year. As we entered the event, IPv6 deployment in the U…

Cisco Live Milano……..IPv6, Spaghetti and Innovation

Last week was “that time of year again”: Cisco Live Europe !! One of my favourite weeks of the working year when (together with 11,000 other Networking Professionals from over 110 countries) I packed my bag and boarded a plane for what I always affectionately call the “Cisco Live Z…

IPv6 in the Cisco Live World of Solutions

Just recently I wrote about the IPv6 enabled logo program here at the Cisco Live 2014 World of Solutions (WoS). It is now time to share some of the results! In what follows I will say that I did not have enough time to exhaustively visit every single demonstration in the WoS. My time there was confi…

Cisco Live 2014……IPv6 Is Everywhere!

It is so great to be back in one of my favourite cities – San Francisco ! It is particularly great to be here for one of my all time favourite events – Cisco Live. This year of course is very special being the 25th anniversary. It is particularly exciting to see so much great innovation…

Touching / Seeing / Feeling IPv6 in the World of Solutions at Cisco Live Milan

As Cisco Live Europe 2014 draws to a close I wanted to reflect on what has (for me) been a personal campaign to raise the visibility of IPv6 in the World of Solutions / WoS (the demonstration / show floor of the event) Last year at Cisco Live London I heard some comments that there was not enough IP…

IPv6 is Everywhere at Cisco Live Milan

IPv6 deployment is accelerating at a fast pace. It’s exciting to see that the global IPv6 deployment figures show a continuing upward trend: Cisco has been helping the Industry track this trend with our global deployment statistics portal: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/. Go to the portal today and yo…