virtualization
A Deep Dive in the Role of Each of the Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA) Layers
This is part 3 of the “Your Business Powered By Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA)” blog series. Physical Infrastructure Layer The physical infrastructure layer is where the physical resources reside. This includes equipment typically used in a data center such as network devices (switches,…
Learn How to Transform your Network with Cisco Innovations at MEF GEN14!!
By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco is a sponsor of a new show this year, the Metro Ethernet Forum Global Ethernet Network 2014 show or “MEF GEN 14” to be held on November 17-20th, at the Gaylord National in Washington, DC. The event promises to bring toge…
Transform Service Provider Architectures to Support Virtualized Managed Business Services
By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco estimates over 50 billion new devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. To support the Internet of Everything, service providers must undergo an infrastructure transformation. The network needs to become more op…
What is the Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA) Layered Approach?
This is part 2 of the “Your Business Powered By Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA)” blog series. CSA Description The following figure shows a simplified view of the Cisco CSA. It has five horizontal layers: Physical Infrastructure layer, Virtualized Infrastructure layer, Services layer, Ser…
Join Us at BBWF 2014
Written by Greg Nehib, Cisco Senior Product Marketing Manager Network functions virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) will get a lot of interest this year at BBWF 2014 Broadband World Forum 2014 as carriers seek to make networks more agile and efficient. In talking to both serv…
Does Virtualization Really Matter?
That was the question that an attendee at a recent conference sponsored by the Communications Technology Management, part of University of California’s Marshall School of Business, asked me last week. With all of the industry discussion on the topic over the last year or two on the topic, I think i…
Your Business Powered By Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA). What are Cisco CSA’s Benefits?
This is part 1 of the “Your Business Powered By Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA)” blog series. Many IT organizations are challenged to take advantage of the new technologies enabled by Virtualization, Cloud, Analytics and IoT. Applications enabled by these new technologies must be protec…
Broad Industry Support Taking Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to Next Level
Cisco will Leverage OPNFV Efforts in Evolved Services Platform (ESP) Development Most people following industry trends are aware of the ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specification Group, which was formed in 2012 and kicked off its first set of specifications in October 2013. T…
MDS 9700 Scale Out and Scale Up
This is the final part on the High Performance Data Center Design. We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure. MDS 9710 capabilities are field proved with the wide…