intent-based networking

Earlier this morning, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Duo Security. In and of itself, this acquisition has been several months in the making by an impressive team of professionals who understood exactly what could be accomplished together. For me personally, it marks a strategic milestone on a…

Today, Cisco is closing the acquisition of July Systems, the cloud-based mobile experience and location services platform that has been powering the Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX) Engage solution in our Wireless Networking portfolio. I am very happy to welcome the team onboard. The technolo…

June is one of my favorite months of the year because the beginning of summer is also the time for our largest conference of the year – Cisco Live! This year, Cisco’s annual conference of innovation was on full display in sunny Orlando, Florida. Cisco Live is our best opportunity in the year to enga…

  Contributing author: Matthias Falkner, Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer    Previous blogs in this series have gone “under-the-hood” of intent-based networking and explored how software-defined networking (SDN) is a foundational element of an intent-based network. In this blog,…

Networking today is a world of big opportunities – and big challenges. Telecoms, mobile, cloud and cable service providers are all facing increasing demands on their systems. Old approaches are no longer going to be enough. If they want to succeed in future, service providers are going to have to re…

525,600 minutes.  An iconic Broadway anthem immortalized this number as the total number of minutes in a year.  At Cisco, we have spent many of these last 525,600 minutes developing, innovating and working together with customers and partners to help advance their Intent-based networking journeys. …

Networkers are developers Here’s some news: If you’re building and running a network, you are a developer. Why? Because your network is transforming and getting more capabilities. Your network is a software system that runs software and hardware. Your network is programmable. Your network has APIs.…

This week, thousands of Cisco customers and partners are meeting in Orlando, Florida – the best location I can think of for sparking the imagination. From Walt Disney World to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, everywhere you go offers a creative, immersive, and often personalized experience. So i…

For more than 20 years, organizations have been running their networks pretty much the same way. But recently, that way has become increasingly difficult, fragmented, and expensive. Modern networks need to be both more integrated, and yet more flexible. So a year ago, we launched our most ambitious…