Networking

As we have discussed in this series, enterprise and service providers are consolidating network services from dedicated hardware appliances into virtualized on-demand applications running on branch office software with centralized orchestration and management. Eliminating the hardware need for each…

By now, you’ve probably heard that the network is open for business with Cisco DNA Center. But, before we get into what that really means, let’s take a walk down the Cisco DNA Center memory lane. DNA Center is a complete software-based network automation and assurance solution in the form of a 360 d…

Guest blogger: Kurt Sauter, Region Manager, Federal Sales, Cisco Systems Kurt Sauter is responsible for Cisco Federal sales efforts specifically focusing on secure wireless products for Federal customers. He brings 20 years of experience of developing and marketing products for the wireless, network…

Posted on behalf of contributing author: Han Lee Han Lee is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco Systems Inc., focusing on access routing for service providers. He has been helping service providers around the world achieve their missions with Cisco solutions. In his role, he is responsible for d…

When we released Cisco DNA Center last year, we knew that it was going to make a big splash in the industry. After reading the evaluation in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure, we now know it for sure. DNA Center is a complete software-based network…

Your distributed office wide area networks are about to get disrupted—in a good way. Software-defined WANs are upgrading application performance to enable people in branch offices, stores, and clinics to operate at peak efficiency. But before today, many organization needed to upgrade their hardware…

I touched on the problem of Shadow IT in the expanding world of IoT in a previous blog A Security Fabric for IoT. But there is another ecosystem of applications and hardware besides IoT devices to manage in the realm of Shadow IT. From the old days of departments buying OTS packaged software for spe…

For twelve years, I have been at Cisco in the field of helping customers meet their needs.  Big customers, small customers and partners (that supply our solutions to customers) across all industries. The one constant in this sea of diversity, is that customers vote with their dollars. This is especi…

When you’re looking for a particular store in a shopping center that spans over 5.6 million square feet, it can be a complicated endeavor. The people at the United States’ largest retail and entertainment complex, Mall of America (MOA) located in Bloomington, MN, understood that this can…