Cisco 8000 Series
Quenching the Never-ending Thirst for Capacity and Scale
Here’s what we need: build a data center that can support billions of unique server sessions per day. Also, let’s have it bring up personalized images, video, and other rich media content for hundreds of millions of people, simultaneously, the second they hit our servers. Oh, and don’t forget to mak…
Service Providers: Join Cisco at MWC 2020
It’s February again that means Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona is just a few weeks away. I know everyone at Cisco is looking forward to seeing all of you at what is arguably the biggest and most impactful technology event of the year (well, maybe tied with Cisco Live!). We look forward to…
Cisco 8000 Series Powering the Internet for the Future
On December 11th 2019, Cisco announced a set of new offerings – silicon, optics, software, and routing systems – specifically designed to power the Internet for the future. In my time at Cisco, I’ve had the privilege of launching a few notable routing systems – the ASR 9000, the NCS 6000…
Reinventing the Internet: Solving Communication Service Provider Bandwidth Issues with Better Network Design
Guest blog by Rajesh Ghai, Research Director, Carrier Network Infrastructure, IDC Every day, more applications migrate to the cloud. Corporate networks increasingly stream rich data such as video, and real-time services such as 5G and IoT drive more low-latency connections and bandwidth demands. Wit…
Cisco Goes SONiC on New Networking Platforms
Cisco has collaborated closely with Microsoft to drive large scale networking. Today, at the launch of Cisco Silicon One and the Cisco 8000, we are happy to share progress we have made together on the fundamental building blocks of open networking. In in 2016, to address the requirements of r…