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In collaboration with Arti Patel Making dinner is relatively easy if you already have first-rate ingredients and supplies at hand — harder if you need to schlep to multiple stores to gather the ingredients and then hunt for an AWOL garlic press. Replace “making dinner” with “collaborating” and you h…

Webex Teams is the hub for collaboration at Cisco. For every project or program, we set up a Webex space where we can meet, chat, and share content—from any device. Keeping connected helps us be productive when email is just not enough. On May 1, 2019, the user experience for collaborating on conten…

Today I’m publishing this post from Heathrow Airport in London. That’s not unusual because I work away from the office probably 50% of the time, either at home, my local café, or hotels and airports. I’ll collaborate with people across different time zones and luckily for me, working at Cisco…

Refreshing the 10-year-old Tokyo office At the end of 2017, the renovation of our Tokyo office was announced to Cisco Japan employees. It had been 10 years since the company had moved to the Tokyo Midtown Tower in the busy Roppongi district, home to several multi-national companies. It was time to r…

This blog explains why and how we’re extending our campus fabric to the Internet of Things (IoT). Just interested in the engineering? Scroll down to “Start here if you just came for the engineering.” Our network infrastructure team has been building networks with Catalyst switches since before I sta…

Customers often ask us whether artificial intelligence (AI) will be the kind of game changer that analysts are predicting. From what I’m seeing, the answer is an unconditional yes.   The trick is figuring out the right use cases. While any computer can calculate pi to a million places faster th…

Si no has visto el blog de la Red del Futuro de mi colega Ben Irving, te recomiendo que lo revises. En este blog compartiré lo que hemos logrado hasta ahora en términos de la nueva arquitectura WAN que Ben describe aquí. ¿Por qué aumentar la capacidad WAN? Dos razones. Primero, necesitamos más capac…

Si pudieras cambiar algo sobre la gestión de la red, ¿que sería? Habiendo sido a la vez líder de proyectos de red y líder de programas en Cisco, he pensado mucho en esto. Ya contamos con excelentes herramientas para la implementación automática, la administración de imágenes de software y la adminis…

If you could change anything about network management, what would it be? Having been both a network project manager and program manager at Cisco, I’ve given this a lot of thought. We already have great tools for zero-touch deployment, software image management, and fabric management. What could be b…