Collaboration Solutions: Meet Cisco Meeting Server
In this fast-paced business environment people sometimes struggle to find a “place” to meet, to collaborate, to get together and work out the details. In the “real” world we have conference rooms and huddle rooms, break rooms and lobbies. But in the virtualized world finding a suitable meeting place becomes harder to accomplish. Vendors such […]
Using Cisco Shipped at DevNet Hackathon
The DevNet Zone at Cisco Live provides a hands-on opportunity for learning about development with Cisco technology and open source application program interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs). This year, DevNet 2016 also offered the chance to compete for prizes and glory in a Hackathon.
Highlights from Cisco Live U.S. 2016
Cisco Live started in 1989 with just a handful of attendees, and it has been growing significantly over the past 26 years. This year’s Cisco Live U.S. event had 28,000 attendees and was hosted June 10-14 at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Cisco Live is the company’s corporate event that pulls together […]
Migrating to SIP Trunking: Is It Worth the Move?
There has been a great deal of buzz over the past few years surrounding Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking for connection to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Many companies have pondered moving away from the traditional time-division multiplexing (TDM) links (i.e., Basic Rate Interface/BRI, Primary Rate Interface/PRI and Plain Old Telephone Service/POTS) and going […]
Enhance Customer Interaction Experiences with Cisco and Tropo
One of the fastest growing trends in the Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) space is application customization. Organizations no longer need to search for a collaboration product that meets all of their requirements right out of the box. Instead, they can now leverage a partner or their own DevOps team to create custom collaboration applications […]
Thinking Hybrid WAN? Think Cisco iWAN (Part Three)
Imagine this scenario: your wide area network (WAN) includes a 10Mbps Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) service and a 100Mbps Internet service. Your MPLS service is over utilized and causing outages, but your Internet service has 50Mbps of capacity. Doesn’t sound like a very efficient design.
Thinking Hybrid WAN? Think Cisco iWAN (Part Two)
In my first post of this series, I explained how the Hybrid Wide Area Network (WAN) solution from Cisco Intelligent WAN (iWAN) provides transport independence, allowing for a flexible, consistent and secure network overlay regardless of service provider or transport type.
Thinking Hybrid WAN? Think Cisco iWAN (Part One)
As a network engineer, I am always looking for technologies that allow me to more easily control how traffic flows over a Wide Area Network (WAN). Until recently, many of these technologies had too many tradeoffs: policy-based routing (PBR) risks black holing traffic, native routing protocols are notoriously difficult to manipulate, and Multiprotocol Label Switching […]
Impressions from Cisco Live! Europe 2016 in Berlin
I had the opportunity to attend Cisco Live! Europe 2016 (CLEUR!), held February 15-19 in Berlin. A combination of meetings with customers and partners provided for some fortuitous Europe-bound timing. This wasn’t my first time to Live! but it was my first time to Live! in Europe. I’ve always liked Live! as an opportunity to […]
Next Generation Identity Management Using Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 2.0
Security has always been a driving principle at Cisco Systems. From the introduction of the Pix to the ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance), Cisco has been at the forefront of the firewall market. In the intrusion prevention space, Cisco has recently acquired Sourcefire, whose Snort products are now integrated with the company’s Next Generation IPS line […]
