Inside Cisco IT

Every company gets phone bills. Whether you use hardware phones or laptop software phones or mobile phones, video phones or audio phones, your calls have to get carried over the some service provider’s network, and that costs money.…

Cisco IT is deploying Identity Services Engine (ISE) globally. ISE is a security policy management and control platform that automates and simplifies access control and security compliance for wired, wireless, and VPN connectivity. We’re running ISE 1.2 Patch 3 globally and evaluating Patch 5 for it…

Luca Felli From Lance: It’s as easy as dialing a phone … no, wait it’s even easier I dial the phone so often I don’t even think about it anymore: looking up someone’s phone number, and dialing their number into the phone – it’s second nature by now. But do it often enough in one day – or spend too…

How does Cisco keep voice costs down with our Unified Communications voice service?…

I arrived in Milan for the annual Cisco Live conference for networkers and was immediately excited by the buzz the change in host city generated (from London last year) as well as opportunity that all 7,000 attendees had to learn about connecting technology architecture with business architecture to…

Would you jump on a horse without consulting someone else who is at least somewhat familiar with horses?  You know, like a cowgirl or boy? Probably not. At least not if you’re interested in staying in the saddle versus tumbling to the never-soft earth. While Cisco IT doesn’t have any expertise in ho…

The Internet of Everything (IoE) is poised to change the world with extraordinary, wide-ranging implications. IoE will forge a new economy that is bursting with new market and business opportunities.…

There is plenty of reading collateral out on the internet that covers the “technology” side of migrating from a legacy voice system to IP Telephony and Unified Communications (e.g. Cisco Collaboration Systems Migration and the Cisco IT Migration Best Practice) but not much that covers the human aspe…

Over the last 15 years, we’ve progressively centralized our UC architecture. As WAN services have become bigger, better and more cost effective, we’ve been able to rely more heavily on the network to extend UC services out to the branch networks. …