Data Center Interconnect

Cisco’s Aggregation Service Router 9000 (ASR 9k) has evolved into the cloud-scale, multi-service platform offering unprecedented flexibility, scale, programmability and security for Service Providers today. When the ASR 9k was first announced in November 2008, it was a 6-slot and a 10-slot chassis—e…

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017 was a great success this year.  I was extremely pleased with momentum in the area of Cisco’s IOS XR Software Innovations supporting our customers network transformation use cases for Cloud-Scale Networking. In the pre-show blog I alluded to this conference as the pla…

Wow! OFC is going to be another really great event this year. If you’re like me, you already have a busy schedule planned, there are just so many great speakers, sessions, and workshops available to choose from – including some excellent sessions and topics featuring Cisco’s own Bill Gartner, Ron Jo…

As a Cloud Architect, I’ve had the privilege to work with CTOs and CIOs across the globe to uncover the key factors driving Business Continuity and Workload Mobility across their cloud infrastructures. We’ve worked with enterprises, large and small, and service providers to answer their top five con…

What is Next-Gen Workload Mobility for the Private Cloud? Enterprises across the globe have been asking for simpler ways to provide multi-site Business Continuity and Workload Mobility for applications hosted in their Private Cloud. The Cloud promises a more agile operational environment and that pr…

By Tina Lam, Product Manager MPLS based Layer 2 VPN has been around for over 10 years since the inception of IETF Pseuduowire Edge to Edge (PWE3) Working Group. Many drafts and standards have been added, since then, to address different applications and to improve scale and convergence in different…