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Although Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia is relatively new in terms of universities (it was founded less than 50 years ago) they have made significant achievement in this time in reaching the the top 3% of rankings in higher education institutions worldwide. Critical to the university̵…

As an organization, providing secure guest and corporate Internet access at the branch can be a major challenge. Not only do you have to protect the enterprise, you also have to protect your customer. Protection is good… but it also needs to be simple to deploy, easy to manage, and integrates seamle…

By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cisco, and the international transport community, will converge on the Acropolis Convention Center starting this Tuesday in Nice, France – June 28, through July 1, for the 18th annual NGON conference. NGON is considered by m…

Policy Control is most commonly associated with PCRF, the 3GPP-defined standard for implementing policy and charging rules. It is the enforcement of these rules at the various network gateways that enable mobile operators to control and monetize their services. Network-based policies create the foun…

Here’s an observation that happened to serve as the basis of a keynote I had the opportunity to give the other day, at the TIA 2016 “Network of the Future” conference, in Dallas: Yes, it would be wonderful indeed if broadband service providers saw 50% annual revenue growth — if only to offset…

Run your own virtual machine directly on a Cisco router. In 2013 we introduced a pretty cool new trick for Cisco routers. The ISR 4000 Series and ASR 1000 Series can host virtual applications directly in IOS XE operating system. Since then the ISR 4000 has supported a range of Cisco applications: st…

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to lead a session at the SAS Global Forum, along with Intel VP Steve Brown and Lori Schafer, SAS Retail Executive Advisor, on how retailers can create better in-store context for today’s connected customer. SAS Institute is a Cisco analytics partner and w…

Hello all. I trust it has been a good week for you. I am happy to report I am back in-country here in Southern California after a week in Shanghai. I went to visit my fantastic technical product team as we kicked off a new program that will bring five new models in the next couple of years. Exciting…

Do you remember the childhood game Gossip? Maybe you played it. A secret message is whispered from one person to the next until it reaches the last person who says out loud what they believed they heard. Whether by an honest misunderstanding or intentional sabotage, often the end message is nothing…