intent-based networking

Barcelona is Europe’s greatest city to visit in the winter.  It is also the time when the cultural calendar swings into action, and often hosts the best exhibitions of the year. For me, the special draw is Cisco Live Barcelona, where I get the  opportunity to meet, learn and collaborate with industr…

Co-author: Srini Jasti, Sr. Product Manager – Enterprise Switching Enterprises are demanding more and more from their networks even with reducing budgets and increasing complexity. Today, IT teams are looking for effective, simpler solutions to deploy and operate their networks. Many are already won…

You know that feeling when you are right at the beginning of something big? A long-distance run perhaps, an extended vacation, or your first zip-line trip. You get this tingling feeling of anticipation. That was my feeling at Cisco Live when we unveiled the breadth of partner applications that have…

Co-author: Bhavana Anklesaria, Product Manager – Enterprise Switching Enterprises are currently being challenged to transform their long-standing business models to keep up with the new digital evolution. Security, user experience, and seamless connectivity have become the key driving factors…

A new journey There is an old proverb that says “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. I am fortunate enough to have recently been on a family holiday to Scandinavia. In my case, the journey was more like 38,000 kilometers (24,000 miles), from the first step out of my front door…

The next step in intent-based networking is putting it in more places. We launched our intent-based networking portfolio a year ago with the introduction of the Catalyst 9000 line of switches and Cisco DNA Center. These products support a new way to build and operate networks: They capture business…

History of WAN circuits I still remember the mid to late 1990s and my first interactions with the Internet. At that time I had my Pentium personal computer for around a year and Windows 95 was all the rage. And while Solitaire and Minesweeper were fun enough, that Broadcom 56kbps modem really opened…

Cisco is a Global Premier Sponsor at NetApp Insight Las Vegas, October 22-24, at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.  Insight is NetApp’s annual global technical conference, packed with keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on labs, networking events Engage with Cisco Compute and Networ…

The Radical Evolution of Networks Networks are the essential infrastructure that delivers the power of data in all its forms to support our interconnected civilization. We are all utterly dependent on networks to connect business systems, employees, customers, citizens—well, basically everybody and…