Cisco SD-WAN

October 2, 2018

GOVERNMENT

Digital Harvest: Celebrating data, analytics, and outcomes at Gartner ITxpo

As you watch the leaves begin to fall and send the kids back to school, you may also be enjoying one or more of the local festivals or state fairs that are traditionally held this time of year. For those of you who may not know, these events were originally held to celebrate the harvest, and share i…

September 25, 2018

NETWORKING

What to consider for your Software-Defined Branch?

As we have discussed in our Software-Defined Branch (SD-Branch) blog series, Part 1 examined SD-Branch hardware and software, while Part 2 explored orchestration and management options. To sum it up-the Cisco SD-Branch solution provides a simplified, software-based approach to branch office network…

September 20, 2018

NETWORKING

Improve Office 365 Connectivity with Cisco SD-WAN

Posted on behalf of contributing author: Robin James Robin James is a Product Manager at Cisco Systems Inc., focusing on WAN solutions for enterprise networks. In his role, he is responsible for driving customer adoption of Cisco’s SD-WAN solution and leading technical discussions with enterpr…

August 23, 2018

NETWORKING

Cisco Tools for SD-Branch Orchestration and Management

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…

SD-WAN – Hitting its Stride with Managed Services

June 11-14 2018 saw another hugely successful Cisco Live US event in Orlando FL.  If you missed it, you can access most of the sessions through the on-demand library. During and around Cisco Live US, there was a lot of activity and several exciting announcements one of which I wrote about then ̵…

August 8, 2018

NETWORKING

Delivering 1 Gbps over DSL with Cisco’s ISR 1000

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…

June 8, 2018

SECURITY

Ready for takeoff into the era of direct internet access?

Buzz… I pull out my phone and see my pre-boarding reminder. I click the flight number pre-authorized and -populated in my ridesharing app. A car arrives minutes later, and the next thing I know my driver has pulled onto SFO’s tarmac. Directly in front of me, I see my plane’s boarding stairs ab…

May 25, 2018

NETWORKING

Cisco Continues WAN Optimization Leadership with the Release of Next-Generation Platform

To function properly, most cloud based applications need good bandwidth and low latency and in large-scale WAN deployments, latency, bandwidth constraints, and packet loss are inevitable.  SDWAN promises to overcome application performance bottlenecks associated with network architectures that were…

March 7, 2018

NETWORKING

Extending Intent-Based Networking to the WAN

How often does IT receive the complaint “the network is slow?” End users complaining about application problems can be frustrating, especially when it is not always the network that is the cause. When those complaints come from remote sites, eliminating the WAN as the cause of the proble…