deployment
Real-life Cisco DNA Superheroes
Who is your favorite superhero? Is it the iconic Spider-Man/Peter Parker whose “good guy” demeanor is undeniable? Or is it Iron Man/Tony Stark who uses his gift of intelligence to not only save himself, but to help protect the world? It may be hard to pick just one since each hero has a unique perso…
How My Cisco Team Helped Me While I Served Overseas
How do you get through a 12-month deployment with the US Army to the Middle East? For me, much of it was through my Cisco Family. As you can imagine, life in a combat theater can be quite lonely, especially for a person of my rank, Command Sergeant Major. The good news is that, after having been dep…
Orchestrated Assurance: What is it and why do I need it?
Service Providers aim to deliver network services faster with assured customer quality. But, as networks are becoming increasingly software-defined and programmable, the rate at which they change is also rising, driven by network-on-demand offerings and self-service portals. In this dynamic environ…
Igniting Cisco Spark Board Across the Board with Cisco Services
Cisco recently announced our exciting new Cisco Spark Board. And, many customers are eager to ignite the meeting experience for their employees. Extending Cisco Spark into your corporate team rooms is the perfect way to tie your hardware and software capabilities together to boost team collaboration…
Diversity of Deployment Models for Unified Communications
“Now. Right now.” That’s the motto of modern technology. As contemporary consumers, we expect access to everything regardless of location or time. If we are sitting in traffic, too many of us automatically reach for our phones to check our messages and email. (And risk an expensive traffic ticket to…
Enivest and Cisco Deploy a DWDM Network at Light Speed
Guest blog by Dan Crawford, Marketing Manager, Cisco In the western Scandinavian fjords of Norway, Enivest an internet service provider has deployed a new optical transport network using a Cisco optical network solution (NCS 2000). While this, in itself, may not be big news to most people, the real…
Proving the Value of SD-WAN
In a recent TechTarget survey, it was noted that despite the hypes about numerous benefits of SD-WAN – one of which is the ability to create a hybrid WAN environment (i.e. MPLS and Internet or LTE links), something Gartner claims will be “the new normal,” – only 10% of enterprises plan to deploy hyb…
Carrier Wi-Fi: Consider More Than Speed
By Vince Pandolfi, Consulting Systems Engineer, Service Provider The latest Wi-Fi physical layer standard 802.11ac, has been ratified and is enjoying widespread adpotion in the client device marketplace. The hype has been with us for a few years now proclaiming tremendous gains in throughput. The m…
Developing Products and Solutions in the 21st Century
On November 3rd, 2014 at the Software Defined Network-Multiprotocol label Switching SDN-MPLS (Software Defined Networking-Multiprotocol Label Switching) Conference in Washington D.C: I moderated a stellar panel titled, “Developing Products and Services in the 21st Century.” Quite a few of the attend…