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Service Providers and Enterprises are constantly striving to keep pace with user demand and expectations. The drive to transform networks in a timely manner while maintaining service quality and constraining incremental costs is an ongoing challenge. With 77,000 Service professionals around the worl…

Sometimes you get the opportunity to walk away from the Cisco booth to see – and feel – what’s energizing the industry. From NAB 2017, here are a few of my walkaway takeaways: 1. NAB isn’t just for “traditional broadcasters” anymore. This year, the transition of IP deeper into the video food chain c…

Written by Shawn Tylka, Cable & Media Field Marketing Lead Cisco is committed to the transformation underway in media, a vibrant and growing industry, and the National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB) is a key opportunity for us to show off what we have been up to and how we are helping ad…

Update (6/01/2017): We disagree with the Patent Office decision regarding the ‘668 patent, particularly since the ITC rejected Arista’s validity challenges and found the patent both valid and infringed. We intend to appeal the Patent Office’s decision, which will be the final determination regarding…

By Aunindo Ghosh Fifty countries, 4.5 billion people, and a multitude of cultures and economies. Asia Pacific is indeed as varied as it is vast. And that variation includes the way people watch TV. But if there is one thread that binds everyone in this region, it has to be the explosive growth of Mo…

This afternoon the International Trade Commission ruled that Arista switches infringe two additional Cisco patents, covering addressable memory and control plane policing, which are core technologies in network switching. By confirming Administrative Law Judge McNamara’s Initial Determination, the C…

It’s April, and that means it’s time to pack back out to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters convention, scheduled for the last week of the month. And because we’ve lots to talk about, and you probably have limited time, I’m motivated to keep this one tight. I’ll start with the mo…

UPDATE (April 7, 2017): The U.S. CBP agency today decided to allow importation of Arista’s redesigned products into the U.S. while the ITC enforcement proceedings for case ‘944 are underway. The decision was issued after the agency met with counsel for both parties in late February, where our outsid…

This one’s for everyone careening out of the holidays and into 2017 — while necessarily keeping an eye on what’s about to happen at the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show. We’ll be at the Wynn Hotel again, with a hot lineup of products demonstrated– way more than I could possibly…