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Enterprise Networking Business 2019 Year in Review
Towards the end of this busy and innovative year, Cisco leadership decided to combine several businesses under one leader, SVP/GM Scott Harrell, to create the Intent-Based Networking Group. So, what is the meaning in a change of names? The new organization consists of engineering and product marketi…
The Cisco Wireless and Mobility Year in Review for 2019
If you’re anything like me, whenever the end of the year rolls around you start looking back at the accomplishments you made in the previous 12 months, and it’s pretty incredible to think about all of the things that you did. What I mean is, as you’re going through your day-to-day activities, it nev…
Stay Connected in Digital Spaces with OpenRoaming
Our mobile devices are like a second brain, remembering, reminding, and informing us throughout our daily tasks. It would be great for productivity if your “other mind” could stay continuously connected from the time you got up at home or hotel on Wi-Fi, travelled to work on cellular, and instantly…
Time to Get Ahead of the Wi-Fi 6 Upgrade Curve
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…
OpenRoaming: A Seamless Access Solution that Benefits Customers and Carriers
A mobile carrier’s worst nightmare is a customer who doesn’t have wireless service and blames their operator. Maybe they are traveling and don’t have an international cellular plan. Or they are at a stadium for a game, but no traffic is going through because the cellular towers are overloaded. 5G is…
Wi-Fi’s New 6 GHz Spectrum is a New Frontier
The world’s wireless systems are getting huge upgrades this year and next: 5G cellular is beginning its rollout, with the promise of much faster speeds; and Wi-Fi is getting a big upgrade too, with the release of Wi-Fi 6 devices that will give us not just better speed, but better battery life and re…
How Cisco plans to connect the world with OpenRoaming
It’s fair to say that between social media, mobile maps, online banking and the hundreds of other apps we all use our smartphones for, the internet has become a utility nearly as crucial as water and electricity to the functioning of our society. So, in an age of unparalleled connectivity, we’re aim…
Your Catalyst for the Past, Present, and Future
This is an exciting time at Cisco. The Intent Based Networking strategy we announced two years ago is kicking into high gear with customers adopting our solutions faster and faster. Today, Cisco Enterprise Networking SVP/GM Scott Harrell laid out the need for the modern access network to deliver an…
OpenRoaming: Automatic and Seamless Roaming Across Wi-Fi 6 and 5G
Pop quiz: Imagine you’re at San Francisco airport and you want to get on Wi-Fi to download a movie before your flight. You have the following choices: A) Free Airport Wi-Fi B) Airport Wi-Fi SFO C) AirNet SFO D) You can’t fool me, I’ll just stay on cellular and pay for the convenience If you chose D,…
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