architectures

The wide-spread adoption of the Internet is simply phenomenal. 2018 marks the year where the number of Internet users has surpassed half of the world’s population with 3.6B users. And, according to Cisco VNI, IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent from 2016 to 202…

Cisco IT has over our history become more and more standardized, with standard architectures (which are continuously upgraded to meet future business needs), and standard products, designs, software versions, and configurations. But we’ve never really told the story about WHY we have standardi…