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In my previous blog Deconstructing the 5G opportunity for Cisco Partners, I describe what 5G will bring to Cisco Partners and its customers, and the great opportunity it represents. In this blog, I’ll discuss the complexity of the electromagnetic spectrum and how some countries are at the forefront of allowing enterprises to allocate spectrum real estate to provide private 5G networks. First, why is the spectrum so vital for wireless networks? Almost everybody in the…

At Cisco, the environment and sustainability are more than just important. They are the underpinnings of our vision of an inclusive future that takes everyone into account, including future generations. In our pledge to achieve net-zero emissions, Cisco has set long-term goals to minimize our impact on the environment. The use of renewable energy and incorporating responsible environmental design principles into each of our products, from packaging to materials sourcing to energy efficiency, gets us…

Each We Are Cisco blog post you’ll read here is written with care by Cisconians. You’ll see a lot of posts about why they love working here – I’ve written previous posts myself. Nothing has changed between my first blog and this one, except that I’m writing this time knowing I’m leaving Cisco. I joined Cisco right out of college. During the last five years, I can honestly say I grew with Cisco. I came…

Microsoft In 1994, I’d already been covering the internet for years and I knew it was going to change the world. Microsoft still hadn’t come around to that idea. In the first edition of Bill Gates’s book The Road Ahead, he barely mentions the internet. In the next edition, Gates gave the internet a chapter to itself and by May 1995 he realized that the internet would be a technology tidal wave. Microsoft started rewriting history…

Network-acceleration processors are becoming as popular as CPUs, and the latest big buy is Marvell Technology acquiring Innovium, a provider of networking solutions for cloud and edge data centers. Marvell already has an extensive portfolio of Ethernet-switching processors, and it recently acquired Inphi, a developer of dedicated high radix, performance-optimized switch silicon to help move vast amounts of data around data centers. Now comes the Innovium purchase. Innovium’s Teralynx switching architecture is said to deliver…