enterprise nfv
Cisco Tools for SD-Branch Orchestration and Management
As we have discussed in this series, enterprise and service providers are consolidating network services from dedicated hardware appliances into virtualized on-demand applications running on branch office software with centralized orchestration and management. Eliminating the hardware need for each…
Why Cisco SD-Branch is better than a ‘white box’
A typical branch office IT installation consists of multiple point products, each having a specific function, engineered into a rigid topology. Changing something in that chain, be it adding a new function or connection, increasing bandwidth, or introducing encryption, affects multiple separate prod…
Enterprise NFV Design and Use Cases – Part 3
Design Considerations for Branch Virtualization with NFV In the previous blogs (Part 1 and Part 2) on Enterprise NFV Design we discussed the concept of network function virtualization (NFV), its benefits, the foundation blocks and the design considerations of branch virtualization with NFV. In this…
Extend Virtualization Beyond The Branch
A year ago, I introduced our Enterprise NFV solution. This year at CiscoLive Berlin (#CLEUR), we announced solutions that extend virtualization beyond the branch, across the entire enterprise network and to the cloud. Every day, we see how digital transformation is changing the way we work, live, pl…
The Router That Speaks
Have you ever imagined what your car, phone, laptop, or anything you own for that matter, would say if it could speak? I think my phone would tell me to stop dropping it. My car would beg me to get it washed. What if the routers that have been powering your branch network all these years could talk…
CSP 2100 and Avi Networks – The power of Data Center NFV with agile, next-generation application services
Until recently, the promise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) was largely confined to service providers who were looking to improve efficiencies by leveraging Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) running on x86 machines. Not anymore. With the Cisco Cloud Services Platform (CSP) 2100, mainstrea…
Cisco Recognized as A Leader in Gartner WAN OP MQ, 2nd Year in a Row
I am excited to share that Cisco, once again, secured a leadership position in Gartner 2016 WAN Optimization Magic Quadrant. This comes shortly after the Best of Interop win in Las Vegas for Cisco Enterprise NFV. According to the report, Leaders in this Magic Quadrant have a broad feature set, inclu…
#CiscoChampion Radio, S3|Ep. 9: Enterprise NFV
#CiscoChampion Radio is a podcast series by Cisco Champions as technologists. Today we’re discussing Enterprise NFV with Cisco Subject Matter Expert Kishan Ramaswamy. Get the Podcast Listen to this episode Download this episode (right-click on the episode’s download button) View this episode in iTu…
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