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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…

Happy New (Fiscal) Year, Cisco! We are kicking-off Fiscal Year 2020 with a special #TeamDevNet #CiscoChat LIVE! featuring: Bill Hentschell (@BHentschell) John McDonough (@johnamcdonough) Patrick Rockholz (@patrickrockholz) …and moderated by yours truly (@silviakspiva). The #CiscoChat LIVE! will be o…

We’ve come a long way It’s hard to believe that Wi-Fi is 20 years old already. I can certainly remember the feeling of freedom in those first few years of being able to connect individual people to other people and applications, no matter where they were in the building, or even across the road in…

By this time, many of you might have followed the exciting news of the launch of commercial friendly user trial by Rakuten Mobile Network Inc. (referred as just “Rakuten” in this blog post) – the newest and the 4th mobile network operator in Japan. Rakuten Inc., the parent company, is well known in…

I’ve got a secret and I’ll share it, if you promise not to tell anyone in the US, Europe, or LATAM. You promise?… OK, good. In the past twelve months, I’ve spoken at all four Cisco Lives around the globe and hands down, without a doubt, my favorite location is Melbourne. Between its setting (r…

Cisco Live Melbourne is right around the corner! Running from 5-8 March 2019 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, it will be my first time representing Cisco at our annual showcase and education event since joining 6 months ago. I have worked with Cisco solutions for many years as a…

A new journey There is an old proverb that says “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. I am fortunate enough to have recently been on a family holiday to Scandinavia. In my case, the journey was more like 38,000 kilometers (24,000 miles), from the first step out of my front door…

  Use this Script to Help Keep Your Bot (and Sensitive Information) Away from Prying Eyes There are times – like when you are first developing it, or when it is handling sensitive information – when you want your bot to be only available AND only respond to folks within your company…

Cisco Connect Not very often does the sales systems engineers (SE) team have the opportunity to drive a project from scratch, all the way up to implementation and operation. This month we will have this opportunity again: Delivering Cisco Connect in Brazil! #CiscoConnectBR is an event for partners a…