NETWORKING

Lutfiyyah Patel, Cisco Networking Academy instructor at Siyafunda Community Technology Centre in South Africa Six years ago, if you would’ve told Lutfiyyah Patel (or Lulu, as her students call her) she was going to be a Cisco Networking Academy instructor who inspires students throughout South Africa – she wouldn’t have believed you. Growing up, Lulu wanted to be a chef; but culinary school was too expensive, even with government aid. So she supported the family…

People want simplicity in technology. They want secure connectivity no matter where employees work or where the application sits. The secure access service edge (SASE) combines cloud security and SD-WAN for this purpose. Yet, any network engineer will tell you that performance should never be sacrificed for simplicity. Someone trying to send an important email would say the same. It’s for these reasons that Cisco is proud to introduce the Catalyst 8200L, a powerful edge…

For many service providers leaning into 5G, preparing for their next digital evolution can be perplexing, costly, and time consuming. Not only are service providers required to build the bridge as they walk on it, but they also need to keep their eyes on the customer experience, recruit and train talent, grow the business, and innovate new services. To successfully support our customers on their digital transformation journey, last year, Cisco Business Critical Services unveiled…

There are some people who feel that an outdoor network is an extravagance. It’s not. Even if your workplace isn’t a stadium or an outdoor concert hall, there are many reasons why you’d want to extend your indoor wireless network to the great outdoors. One of the biggest reasons is the preponderance of IoT devices. As more and more IoT devices—like video cameras or outdoor lighting or badge readers—are added to the network, they’re gobbling…

Thirty years ago, all voice calls ran over a circuit-switched network. Today, the vast majority of voice traffic is transported over a packet-switched network. The main benefit of moving voice to the packet switched network was to lower the high cost of long-distance calls and large, expensive central office equipment that only addressed voice traffic. At the time, most people thought voice could not be served by a packet network – that latency, jitter, and…

Cisco says upgrades to its Catalyst switch and AppDynamics application-monitoring package will let enterprises more easily see and fix network and applciation problems. The company has added network intelligence-monitoring capabilities it bought from ThousandEyes in May 2020 to its Catalyst 9300 and 9400 Series boxes and its AppDynamics Dash Studio application-management dashboard. More Cisco Live! News: Cisco takes its first steps toward network-as-a-service The ThousandEyes software analyzes performance of local and wide-area networks and the…

Cisco says upgrades to its Catalyst switch and AppDynamics application-monitoring package will let enterprises more easily see and fix network and applciation problems. The company has added network intelligence-monitoring capabilities it bought from ThousandEyes in May 2020 to its Catalyst 9300 and 9400 Series boxes and its AppDynamics Dash Studio application-management dashboard. More Cisco Live! News: Cisco takes its first steps toward network-as-a-service The ThousandEyes software analyzes performance of local and wide-area networks and the…

No one ever said Pat Gelsinger was timid. A month into his stint as Intel’s CEO, he has announced an ambitious plan to drive ahead with Intel’s chip-manufacturing efforts rather than give up on it. Naysayers and pundits had been saying Intel should dump its fabrication business, similar to what AMD did more than a decade ago when it spun out its fabs into what became GlobalFoundries. Intel’s fabs had fallen behind the bleeding edge,…

This month we launched Future Voices – a Cisco campaign designed to give students and educators around the world a platform to showcase how they have reimagined education while learning and teaching remotely in the wake of the pandemic. We ask them, what does the future of education look like? This is a critical question and one that institutions around the world are rightfully grappling with today. As with many other industries, education is in…

Anyone who has ever worked in retail is familiar with the saying “the customer is always right”. And in today’s omnichannel retail environment, it might be more accurate to say, “the customer always has choices.” Because there are so many options available for consumers to interact with retailers today, the implications of not delivering consistent, secure, “always on” experiences are more profound than ever. Customers interact via online and digital channels with retail businesses every…