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Meeting enterprise demands with dual rate 10/25G Ethernet

Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco   Enterprise networks are now being stressed by video conferencing and other demanding video applications that push beyond the speed limits of traditional 10G infrastructure.  Whether it’s IEEE802.11ax WiFi Access Points,…

July 31, 2018

INNOVATION

Are Blockchain and IOT made for each other?

As 20 billion connected devices come online in the next few years1, The internet of things is poised to play an increasingly important role in our economy. IDC expects IOT based spending to top $1 trillion by 20202 representing a large swath of industries including agriculture, transportation, logis…

100G Adoption In Data Centers With QSFP BiDi Transceiver

Data center traffic is expected to quadruple in the next five years as IoT and big data applications take off. At the same time, we’ll see growth in distributed databases and applications, increasing virtualization and virtual machine density. And all this comes with more complex and unpredictable t…

July 9, 2018

NETWORKING

Intent-based Networking Innovations at Center Stage at Cisco Live

June is one of my favorite months of the year because the beginning of summer is also the time for our largest conference of the year – Cisco Live! This year, Cisco’s annual conference of innovation was on full display in sunny Orlando, Florida. Cisco Live is our best opportunity in the year to enga…

July 2, 2018

DEVELOPER

Developer Community Role Models

Be Like Silvia … and Dmitry … and Jason … and Scott! I’ve been in the technology business since the early 1980s. In all of that time, there has always been a common thought that said, “on the job training is an important activity for your career”. For example, my own career was dramatically ai…

Cisco Live Orlando: Shining a Light on Innovation

The week in Florida at Cisco Live flew by. I enjoyed having the opportunity to talk with Cisco customers, partners, and colleagues from around the world. It was an exciting and uplifting event. Here are a few highlights: The closing keynote was amazing. Dr. Michio Kaku (theoretical physicist and fut…

June 21, 2018

PARTNER

Cisco Live Partner Xperience: Capitalizing on the Pace of Innovation with the Cisco Partner Ecosystem

Last week at Cisco Live in Orlando, I had the pleasure of hosting my first Partner Xperience – three days of ecosystem partners, reseller partners and Cisco leaders networking and discussing ways to accelerate and enable growth for each other and our mutual customers. Before I get into some of my to…

June 20, 2018

PARTNER

Citrix at Cisco Live! Orlando 2018

CiscoLive! US in Orlando was gigantic! The heat and humidity of Orlando in June was no match for the over 26,000 people attending Cisco Live this year.  This was probably the best Cisco Live meeting I have attended. Over the week we heard from Cisco’s senior executives regarding our key strategies;…

Global Problem Solving Comes to Life at Cisco Live US 2018

Cisco Live US 2018 may be over, but it was only the continuation of our collective efforts to positively impact people, society, and the planet. Thanks to the more than 26,000 attendees and 350,000 online viewers who took part in Cisco Live this year, we saw global problem solvers come to life in Or…