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In the market for cloud and digital services, speed kills. There’s just so much competition, so many organizations constantly pushing new solutions to meet changing customer needs. If you can’t get new digital products and features out the door quickly—if you can’t retool on the fly to capture new o…

Subscribe to the Cisco Optics Blog We recently introduced the QSFP28 100G FR pluggable transceiver. This may be one product, but it’s the beginning of a bigger industry dynamic that will change 100G pluggable optics over the next several years. To understand why we will need a change, let̵…

Here’s what we need: build a data center that can support billions of unique server sessions per day. Also, let’s have it bring up personalized images, video, and other rich media content for hundreds of millions of people, simultaneously, the second they hit our servers. Oh, and don’t forget to mak…

When it comes to network deployment strategies, you may be accustomed to treating pluggable optics as an afterthought. But over the past several years, higher data rate pluggable optics have been developed to keep up with bandwidth demands in data centers and service provider networks. And with thos…

Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco  Data center network traffic continues to grow, and as always Cisco is here to provide the best infrastructure options for the industry. According to Cisco’s VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, traffic growth from 2017 to 2022 will…

Data centers house servers, physical or virtual, that provide storage, communications, and networking to the growing number of networked devices, users, and business processes in general. The growing importance of data analytics—the result of big data coming from ubiquitously networked end-user devi…

Segment routing is coming to a competitor near you and it will be a key element of the network infrastructure of the future. But what is it and how will it offer tangible benefits for you, the service provider? It promises to simplify network operation and ensure the best performance of vital applic…

The role of IT is to maximize business capacity, and refreshing your servers is an opportunity to increase capacity, reduce hardware and most importantly, lower costs for the business. It is reasonable to assume that packing more physical servers into less rack space helps you accomplish these goals…