David Ward

February 17, 2019

INNOVATION

Cisco Launches New Co-Innovation Center in Singapore

Stretching the imagination of what’s possible. That’s how we often think about Cisco’s global network of 14 Co-Innovation Centers, and it applies perfectly to our newest Center in Singapore we inaugurated last Friday. Cisco’s Singapore Co-Innovation Center not only expands our global network, but ad…

June 30, 2016

CLOUD

Red Hat Keynote Open Source: the Forefront of Innovation

Though a long time IT guy and Cisco veteran, when it comes to Open Source, containers, really the future of data centers – I’m a newbie!  However, this has got to be one of the coolest times to enter this field. In the Red Hat Summit keynote session, Open Source: The Forefront of Innovation, I am ju…

A BIGGER HELPING OF INTERNET PLEASE!

Co-written with Maciek Konstantynowicz, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technology & Architecture Office “Holy Sh*t, that’s fast and feature rich” is the most common response we’ve heard from folks that have looked at some new code made available in OpenSource. A few weeks back, the Linux Foundati…

NAB 2016, Cisco, and “Cloud-Scale Media Experiences:” Are You Ready?

The world’s video content leaders head to Las Vegas in a few weeks for the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, where a sustaining theme is how to get to “cloud scale” – meaning a media optimization weaving all through the content ecosystem, from the camera to the end screen…

Cisco Live Milan: Service Provider Business Transformation Straight Ahead

Guest blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco Live Milan 2015 has just concluded and concluded with a bang of record-breaking attendance and increased customers’ understanding of the IoE and service provider Technologies. In my first post-show blog, I focused on the overall boot…

March 31, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

[Webcast]: An introduction to Cisco onePK with Ayman Sayed, SVP, NOSTG

For those who are on the learning curve on various aspects of network programmability, open networking and SDN (like we are), I’d like to invite you to the third in a series of educational webicasts on these topics. Brought under the umbrella of the Cisco Open Network Environment, this particular we…

Cisco CTO of Engineering David Ward from MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2013

SDN has become a popular topic – so much so that this year’s MPLS/Carrier Ethernet/IPv6 World Congress in Paris added an SDN Summit component. It’s an area of high interest for Cisco as we develop our Open Network Environment, a portfolio of Cisco technologies and open standards which brings program…

February 12, 2013

DATA CENTER

Valentine’s Day Webcast – “An Introduction to OpenFlow”

What better way to spend Valentine’s day than to watch a webcast on OpenFlow and SDN, perhaps with your significant other? The last couple of years have seen considerable buzz around aspects of software-defined networking.  A significant portion of the early seed discussion was around OpenFlow…

February 7, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco ONE Webcast Series: An Introduction to OpenFlow

Topics such as Software Defined Networking and programmable networks are of great interest to many network operators these days. With that in mind we’re pleased to kick off a new series of Webcasts to help our customer learn more about Cisco’s Open Network Environment strategy. Please join us on Feb…