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November 12, 2019

NETWORKING

Gartner names Cisco a Leader in LAN Access for 5th Year Straight

Over the last year, Cisco has continued on our intent-based networking journey, making sure that we addressed our customers’ business outcomes and use cases for the entire wired and wireless access networking. No matter the new products, from our switches to access points, to controllers to software…

October 25, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco Enterprise Agreement: Benefits and Exclusive Offers

The first blog in this series highlighted the benefits of Cisco DNA software subscriptions, and marrying your hardware network to software consumption models. For this second post in the series, we’ll concentrate on one of those consumption models: Cisco’s Enterprise Agreement (EA), and introduce so…

September 20, 2019

NETWORKING

How to Keep IoT Secure with Intent-Based Networking

The network is transforming at a rapid pace, with multi-cloud environments and an ever-expanding range of devices connecting to the internet across both wired and wireless. Consider the vulnerabilities created by smartphones, HVAC systems, lighting, serverless cameras, robotic tools, medical devices…

September 17, 2019

NETWORKING

From Controllers to Multi-Domain: 7 Pillars of Intent-Based Networking

About four years ago, my team at Cisco sat down to re-architect enterprise networking, because we knew that the traditional models for running networks were not going to be able to scale with the changes being forced on to them. For example, we saw that the number and types of devices connecting to…

September 10, 2019

NETWORKING

Simplicity Out of Chaos with Intent-based Networking

IT today is overworked, understaffed, and managing an increasingly complex network. Use cases for IoT are expanding. The proliferation of devices isn’t slowing down. The workforce is becoming more mobile. And applications and workloads are moving to the cloud and multicloud at a rapid pace. Without…

August 21, 2019

DEVELOPER

Diving Deeper into Wi-Fi 6!

Wow… 12 months at Cisco has flown by!  I have already been fortunate to speak at not one, but two, Cisco Live events, numerous customer and partner events including DevNet Express, and have been a part of awesome new product launches with our Catalyst and Meraki wireless portfolio.  All of this has…

July 23, 2019

NETWORKING

Johnsonville Sausage: How the IT Sausage Is Made

If you’re not familiar with Johnsonville Sausage, you’re either a vegetarian or from another planet. Johnsonville is as ubiquitous in grocery store refrigerators as pigs are on farms.  The company provides consumers with great-tasting, high-quality sausage while staying committed to the well-being o…

July 11, 2019

PERSPECTIVES

PODCAST: Cisco Champions Discuss Cisco DNA Center and AI/ML

Have you tried Cisco DNA Center?  We recently sat down with Cisco’s JP Vasseur, 20 year veteran of Cisco and the guy driving our Machine Learning & AI team to talk through what’s new in this episode of Cisco Champion Radio [<– Click on the magic link to hear!].  Cisco Champs…

July 3, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco DNA Center’s Network Assurance and Analytics Leaves the Competition Behind

Do you have what you really need for Network Assurance? Today’s businesses require fast-paced, dynamic networks that can assure the user and application quality of experience, securely. Today’s networks need Network Assurance Network health is an important aspect of any network operation, and histo…