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Service providers have been working with governments for years to try to meet the need for faster, higher-capacity rural broadband. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made bridging this “Digital Divide” a top priority, directing more than $37 billion to this effort over the next ten years. However, the fundamental economics of rural broadband remain unchanged: when building infrastructure to connect small numbers of subscribers spread out over large, sparsely populated…

Episode 4 of the Cisco Optics Podcast is now posted! See below for episode notes. If you haven’t seen it already, check out Ray’s video on 400G migration. Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 4 How did we go from 1G to 400G? The history of pluggable optics, a conversation with Ray Nering, part 4 of 4. Have you ever wondered why pluggable optics exist? Have you ever wondered what acronyms like QSFP, LR4, FEC, and PAM4…

A full-featured Layer 2/3 switch, tuned for low latency using FPGA programmability SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced SwitchApp for Arista 7130, a new ultra-low latency switch that cuts latency to less than a third of existing Arista solutions. SwitchApp is based on the latest programmable FPGA technology and is fully integrated with Arista EOS® (Extensible Operating System). The combination of these technologies allows customers to access financial markets with extraordinary speed,…

Cisco Blogs / Financial Services / Embrace Change: The IT Platform Built for Financial Services Today, businesses are having to rethink the way they operate. Many financial services organizations are quickly transforming their IT infrastructure into a digital-first model in order to easily embrace the changes ahead. Last week Cisco Meraki held a Financial Services webinar that explored how a cloud-first approach delivers the agility needed to help your business evolve and win with confidence…

The way we work has fundamentally changed since the beginning of last year. We are now part of a new, massively remote workforce that is here to stay. Organizations have long struggled with maintaining visibility across an increasingly complex attack surface. Now, with more employees relying on access to resources and applications from outside the office, endpoint protection has become crucial to the success of any cybersecurity program. But finding success in cybersecurity doesn’t come…

As my family and I sat down to watch a recent Cisco Check-In (our bi-weekly, company-wide all hands that started in 2020 to help employees connect, have their questions answered and be heard) – my 18-month old daughter was on my lap. It’s a place she’s often sat this past year as our family, like so many others, had to adjust. The Cisco Check-Ins have become a new, comforting ritual for us as we gather…

We’ve all been there before—exasperated by an app, website, or tech platform that won’t do its thing. Maybe an error message pops up. Or you’re stuck, phone in hand, as a loading icon spins away on your screen like a wheel of fortune gone rogue. A bad digital experience is all too familiar. For technology leaders, it’s the last thing you want for your customers or organization. Behind the scenes, a blame game is swirling,…

If you’ve never used Gimp—a free image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and other operating systems—you might be quite surprised by its capabilities I use it for everything from Facebook posts when the available backgrounds don’t work well for what I want to say to political buttons that I design and press out using a button-making machine. Gimp can do everything from resizing and cropping images to adding text, changing colors or distorting images…

Financial traders rely heavily on computer financial simulations for making buying and selling decisions. Specifically, “Monte Carlo” simulations are used to assess risk and simulate prices for a wide range of financial instruments. These simulations also can be used in corporate finance and for portfolio management. But in a digital world where other industries routinely leverage real-time data, financial traders are working with the digital equivalent of the Pony Express. That’s because Monte Carlo simulations…

A shortage of all sorts of processors and other components could affect the availability and price of IT hardware for the next 12 to 18 months, according to CEOs of major tech companies including Intel, IBM, Extreme, Cisco and Juniper. COVID-19 triggered an explosion of the global remote workforce, which created an extraordinary demand for new tech gear. It also forced the shutdown of processor plants, and restarting them and renewing supply chains to their…