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SD-WAN Security: Built-in is Better than Bolt-on
Securing enterprise data and business applications is undoubtedly at the forefront of every IT professional’s mind. However, efforts to secure data and applications competes with the priority to open up resources for a distributed workforce by moving applications and data to multiple cloud and SaaS…
New Perspectives on Software-Defined WAN
The integration of Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) with cloud management functionality into the Cisco family of routers in 2018 excited many of our customers. Instantly over a million installed Cisco ISR and ASR routers could be upgraded to become SD-WAN capable, improving application…
Securing the Cloud Edge with SD-WAN
Cisco SD-WAN technology is already enhancing networks by efficiently connecting branches, colocation, data center, and cloud resources into the information fabric that unites a distributed enterprise. But it’s at the Cloud Edge—the intersection of the network, cloud, and security–where businesses al…
Cisco at ANGA 2016
By Yves Padrines, VP, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco Broadband meets content meets transformation through innovation at this year’s ANGA COM gathering, scheduled to run three days from June 7-9 in Cologne, Germany. ANGA COM is one of my favorites in the trade show cycle, because it’s such a fo…
Building a true HetNet
By Andrew Mackay, Head of Mobile Solutions, APAC I have discussed in the past the increasing importance of Smallcells in a Service Providers access strategy (Bringing LTE Indoors and Cost Optimised Indoor Coverage), but to truly leverage Smallcells once deployed in an optimal way is not a trivial t…
Accounting and Routing in the Internet
Accounting Traffic in the Internet Today [the full article can be seen at http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/BGP-for-regulators.pdf] Business Model Changes In the past, voice traffic was transported over a dedicated voice infrastructure, and the data network infrastructure was establ…