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December 11, 2018

INSIDE CISCO IT

Cisco Connected Workplace: You May Now Move Freely About the Office

If you fell asleep in a ’90s data center and woke up in a modern one, you’d know instantly. But if you dozed off in your office and woke up 25 years later, it’s possible you’d be none the wiser until you confronted the espresso machine. In the ’90s, we added one building a month to our San Jose camp…

October 2, 2018

INSIDE CISCO IT

HyperFlex Edge: How Simpler Remote Office Infrastructure Will Save Us 456 Man-Hours

If you looked around my TV room a few years ago, you might commiserate with me about the number of remote controls: TV, cable box, VCR, sound bar, Roku, and our ancient VHS player. Playing back a recorded episode of 24 wasn’t for the faint of heart. As an engineer (can’t help myself), I saw the prob…

August 10, 2018

INSIDE CISCO IT

Network of the Future, Today. How We’re Growing WAN Capacity While Optimizing Costs

If you haven’t seen my colleague Ben Irving’s Network of the Future blog, I recommend you check it out. In this blog I’ll share what we’ve accomplished so far in terms of the new WAN architecture Ben describes here. Why increase WAN capacity? Two reasons. First, we need more capacity to keep deliver…