SDN

IT organizations are constantly looking for ways to streamline operations, take advantage of new capabilities, and adopt technologies that can reduce IT lead-time thus improving service to the business. Many  enterprises are adopting hybrid cloud and virtualization capabilities as a part of overall…

Digital Transformation is transforming businesses and our lives everywhere. The first step in your digital transformation journey is understanding what it means to your industry. For communication service providers(CSP), it means using technology to radically improve performance and reach of service…

I can’t believe it has been a year since I wrote the blog series (part-I, part-II, part-III and part-IV – last one with help from Vincent Esposito) to share some ideas about how to bring theory to practice when it comes to ACI and Micro Segmentation. In the last 12 months we have added quite a…

A few weeks ago, I was named the 2017 Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Woman to Watch for their newly established Technology category.  Talk about honored—I am going to be sharing the stage with some seriously badass movers and shakers: Sara Barnett, BBC America’s President and GM; D’Arcy Ru…

As many of you may have read on Monday in Tom Edsall’s blog post, Cisco announced our intent to put Cisco ACI into the public cloud – AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google. This allows our customers to place policy anywhere.  And now, with ACI Virtual Edge (AVE), we will continue to fulfill our ‘ACI Anyw…

For those of you who have followed earlier blogs, you will have seen the major enhancements we have been making in open IOS XE. Jeff McLaughlin mentioned Day Zero deployment in his recent blog. Day Zero is a critical step in automation. In the past, in order to install a new network device, a highly…

Cloud and associated networking technologies such as Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) offer significant benefits in terms of business agility and cost reduction of total cost of ownership.  SD-WAN, or software-defined networking in a wide area network, is on…

Just before Cisco Live US, Cisco unveiled “The Network. Intuitive.” and with it is “Introducing an entirely new era of networking.” If you’re like me, you are likely intrigued, and are asking yourself.. “How do I get started?”. A great first place to start i…

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides dynamic ways to provision and manage networks in a declarative fashion using programmable network elements rather than the imperative, infrastructure-centric designs seen in traditional networking. SDN is an exciting concept that offers many commercial, tec…