low latency

Sometimes technical innovations strike like lightning. In a flash, shiny new tech arrives and is instantly put in the hands of millions of people. Other times innovations seem like the ocean tide. You can see the slow change coming as the waters incrementally rise, but you’re never quite sure at wha…

Attending the Pay TV Show in Denver next week? If so, don’t miss Wednesday’s 1:40pm panel Streaming Video Everywhere: Quality & Reliability at Hyatt Regency in Denver, Colorado.  I’ll moderate the discussion and we’ll dive deep into a wide range of technologies taking Adaptive Bit Ra…

This is a story with two protagonists: Low latency “ABR” encoding (where “ABR” stands for “Adaptive Bit Rate”) and the hot ticket that is “Video Aware Networking.” And believe it or not, it will keep you at the edge of your seat. (Stick with me here.) It goes like this. Act 1: As broadcasters, “trad…

We recently returned from another great experience at the High Performance Computing Linux for Wall Street event in New York on April 7, 2014. This year’s 11th annual HPC conference focused on big data, HPC applications, data centers fabrics, cloud economics, low latency and how these technologies a…

At the heart of the transition to cloud computing is on-demand provisioning of a wide variety of applications, linear scalability of resources, and non-stop operation at lower total cost. With the increasing frequency of rapid provisioning of data-intensive applications in the cloud, organizations a…

On September 30th at Interop New York  we announced the Cisco Nexus 3100 top-of-rack flexible switches. The show floor was buzzing with the news and the Techwise TV video below with Senior Product Manager, Jag Tamvada and self proclaimed Chief Networking Geek Jimmy Ray Purser discuss details of the…

Cisco always strives to innovate while meeting customer needs. Today we are proud to unveil the  Cisco Nexus 3100 line of switches as part of our Unified Fabric Data Center portfolio. These highly scalable, power efficient, and flexible switches feature significant improvements in port density, prog…

At this years’ 2013 High Performance Computing on Wall Street once again the greatest minds from the financial services industry gathered to discuss the latest technology trends that give financial firms a technology edge in accessing information in real-time to better predict where markets are goin…

We had a great time at the recent 10th Annual High Performance Computing Linux for Wall Street event in New York on April 8, 2013. This year’s HPC conference focused on speed and cutting-edge advances in network visibility, analytics, and instrumentation. Some of the brightest minds in the financial…