Networking

In a long election season, one of the events that grabbed a lot of public attention were the Presidential debates between Democratic Candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Candidate Donald Trump. As you may already know, Cisco provided the wireless network infrastructure for the first debate, held…

When you’re in charge of creating a wireless infrastructure for an event that drops 125,000 balloons at its culmination, you know that you deployed a network for a huge party.   Since 2000, Cisco has been the Network Technological Provider for both the Republican and Democratic National Conve…

Here’s a work riddle: When does having a Cisco Aironet Access Point (AP) result in fewer meetings? Answer: Every time. With Cisco Aironet Access Points employing Flexible Radio Assignment (FRA) to automatically adjust the AP’s dual radios to better account for increased network traffic. This means y…

Setting yourself apart from other schools can be difficult, even for a university that has even a small amount of name recognition. For a school that was founded in 2004, making sure you stand out in the crowded field of continuing education is a tough job. This is the tall order that India’s Mody U…

It seems almost counterintuitive. How can a solution that improves the campus experience for students and staff also save the university hundreds of thousands of dollars annually? Better and cheaper rarely co-exist in the same idea. But with Cisco CMX, they do. The University of British Columbia has…

Security is the single biggest concern for our customers. And today, the average organization has security products from dozens of vendors, making security infrastructure complex and difficult to manage. With the introduction of Cisco ONE Advanced Security, Cisco is reducing this complexity, and sim…

Next week the Open Networking User Group meets for its fall conference in New York City. I am looking forward to learning how the SDN landscape is evolving and what is top of mind for IT architects and business leaders. One hot topic across the board is digital transformation. It has become clear th…

Over the past few years, location-based services such as Google Maps, Yelp, or OpenTable have become pervasive in our lives. In fact, 70 percent of smart phone customers now use location-based services. But similar, location-based services in the enterprise have lagged behind—despite its potential t…

The way that Jaipur looks at it, every few centuries a city needs an upgrade. As one of the biggest tourist destinations in India, Jaipur wanted to transform itself into a more modern, digital city to handle the needs of the people coming into their city. The capital of the Rajasthan province, Jaipu…