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Ignore the Mouse – Get Your IPv6 Learn On at Cisco Live Orlando 2013
By Steve Simlo, IPv6 Product Manager, Cisco Network Operating Systems Technology Group As IPv6 gains more and more ground within the Internet we are starting to see recognition amongst the wider community that technologies such as Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) have some significant drawbacks from a serv…
Gotta Love Fiber!
As President of Fiber to the Home Council Asia-Pacific, I am really excited about the forthcoming annual conference to be held in May 19-21, 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand. Let’s look at some of the compelling facts for the region: By year-end 2016, nine economies are forecasted to reach FTTx househo…
Welcome to the Next Generation of the Internet
No one could have imagined the fundamental impact the Internet would have on both society and the economy—changing our lives forever. The Internet has already transformed the way we work, live, play, and learn. And, this is only the beginning. The extraordinary growth and transformation of the Inter…
Come Join Us at Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conference 2013
This year we’re moving our Packet Optical Conference 2013 to San Jose and it promises to be an exciting three days (May 14-16) full of demonstrations and sneak peeks at new platforms and technology. We’ve also got a number of industry speakers including Krish Prabhu, CEO of AT&T Labs and Bikash…
Introduction of Big Thinkers in Small Cells
Over the past five years, the adoption of small cells has increased dramatically. At Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year the Small Cell Forum announced that we have now crossed the threshold where there are more small cells deployed than macro cells in the world. Clearly, small cells are playing,…
Cisco 100G DWDM– Works Anywhere Over Anything
By Greg Smith, Service Provider Marketing Manager, Cisco OK, so the title of this article isn’t totally accurate. Cisco’s 100G DWDM solution won’t work over barbed wire, or Cat-5 cable, or cotton string, but it will work on over 95% of the existing fiber in the ground, including systems that were de…
Cisco Fellow Mark Townsley: A Better Way to Deploy IPv6
We first talked about the Mapping of Address and Port (MAP) method to handle IPv4 exhaust and the transition to IPv6 last week. MAP is based on two IETF drafts currently in the process of standardization in draft-ietf-softwire-map (MAP-E) and draft-ietf-softwire-map-t (MAP-T). The real advantage wit…
Cisco’s “Future of Video” Demo Wins NAB Technology Innovation Award
Our “Future of Video” (formerly known as “Fresco”) wall took home the National Association of Broadcasters’ Technology Innovation Award this week, during a grand ceremony keynoted by NASA chief Charles Bolden. We are thrilled! (And not just because we’re all latent astronauts around here.) The NAB a…
World IPv6 Congress – “The Buzz“
By Steve Simlo, IPv6 Product Manager, Cisco Network Operating Systems Technology Group The World IPv6 MPLS / Ethernet / SDN World Congress events wrapped up recently with over 500 industry specialists in attendance, including myself. For 3 days the buzz was on how IPv6 has advanced since last year’…