intent-based networking

Towards the end of this busy and innovative year, Cisco leadership decided to combine several businesses under one leader, SVP/GM Scott Harrell, to create the Intent-Based Networking Group. So, what is the meaning in a change of names? The new organization consists of engineering and product marketi…

Leading-edge networks—your network—can have the ability to comprehend business and application requirements and translate them to network and security policies. This ensures that your business critical services are continuously delivered and protected. We call it intent-based networking. Get started…

Struggling to find that perfect gift for the budding network admin in your life? Or maybe even the CIO? Relax, we have you covered, with gifts at all expense report levels. The Stocking Stuffer Velcro Cable Ties, about $3 for a roll of 25 This is the gateway drug to keeping an orderly network. Wrap…

  02/03/2020 Update: We have completed the acquisition of Exablaze. Welcome to the team!   Network capacity and speed are today’s bread and butter for data intensive, highly transactional-based businesses requiring optimized bandwidth performance in industries and market segments like high…

End-user expectations for digital experiences have never been higher. Cisco is meeting the demand to have an unplugged and uninterrupted experience with its multi-domain integration across the data center, campus, and branch. But what does this mean in practicality? Application access must be…

In my previous two blog posts, I explained how Cisco addresses the security and scalability challenges associated with an Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. In this post, I cover the final of the top three challenges: complexity. For an IoT initiative to be successful, the deployment and managemen…

I can understand if you dread configuring network segmentation. Not only is it hard to configure the many different switches and routers, creating VLANs, using ACLs to create lists of permit or deny IP addresses, it is also easy to make mistakes and risk shutting down parts of the network. And with…

It is a safe bet that your business is running some of its applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). And that you are using Cisco technologies to connect and secure your connections to the AWS cloud. So I am happy to announce today that we are offering enterprise customers even deeper integrations…

For the past two years, I have been proud to work on bringing the next generation of SD-WAN technology to our customers. We’ve achieved great success, at significant scale. We’ve learned a lot along the way, as have our customers. It’s safe to say that adopting SD-WAN is important to them. Today, we…