NETWORKING

Private 5G is technology that can be used in local area networks. Not to be confused with the public 5G connectivity offered by telephone companies, private 5G is used in corporate campuses, office buildings, factories and warehouses, event venues, and airports, either instead of or in addition to Wi-Fi. According to an unpublished survey from research firm Forrester, 44% of corporate telecommunications  decision-makers plan to create private 5G networks. Industries with significant private 5G plans…

The internet of things (IoT) is a catch-all term for the growing number of electronics that aren’t traditional computing devices, but are connected to the internet to send data, receive instructions or both. There’s an incredibly broad range of ‘things’ that fall under the IoT umbrella: Internet-connected ‘smart’ versions of traditional appliances such as refrigerators and light bulbs; gadgets that could only exist in an internet-enabled world such as Alexa-style digital assistants; and internet-enabled sensors…

Kumusta! That means “hello” in Tagalog, one of my native languages. I’m proud to say it to you as Cisco DevNet’s newest Senior Developer Advocate! I’ve been a software developer for a decade, and I’ve seen a few things. I’ve worked at small startups, and medium and large enterprises. I’ve worked in industries including higher education, healthcare, e-commerce, and finance. Most importantly, I’ve worked with a lot of different developers. The most effective developers that…

Ever have one of those days where you’ve almost reached the office and you realize you left your laptop at home? Doubling back and refighting traffic is awful, frustrating, and completely inefficient. By the time you finally get to the office, it feels as if you’ve already put in a full day. We’ve all had days like that, and Cisco wants to make sure that managing your network isn’t a grind. With that in mind,…

Over the past year, Cisco has embarked on a journey to make everything possible for our partners, distributors, and customers. We’ve worked together to help accelerate our customers’ digital transformation efforts, while continuing to navigate through multiple challenges. Despite those challenges—or perhaps because of those challenges—we’ve found that we’re more powerful together, and that when we work together, we can open up a world of limitless possibilities. A world where truly everything is possible. So…

This post was authored by Bev Wright, CIO  for the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia The University of Adelaide is a public research university in Australia that is a member of the Group of Eight, a distinction equivalent to the Ivy League in the United States. We have over 23,000 students, including international students from over 100 countries. I commenced with the university in 2017 as only the second CIO with the task…

The term Wi-Fi is synonymous with wireless LANs, despite the fact it’s a specific trademark owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a group dedicated to certifying that products meet the IEEE’s wireless standards. In the IEEE’s naming convention, all standards that specify protocols for implementing wireless LANs fall under the 802.11umbrella. Individual standards are assigned alphabetically, 802.11a, 802.11b, etc. Thanks to the widespread acceptance of wireless LANs, new standards continue to be developed at a rapid pace, creating…

Later this month, HP Enterprise will ship what looks to be the first server aimed specifically at AI inferencing for machine learning. Machine learning is a two-part process, training and inferencing. Training is usign powerful GPUs from Nvidia and AMD or other high-performance chips to “teach” the AI system what to look for, such as image recognition. Inference answers if the subject is a match for trained models. A GPU is overkill for that task,…

Every summer as a kid, my family went on a trip. Before we left, my dad would unfold his paper map, and show us the route; pointing out long stretches of highway driving, back-road shortcuts, and where we would stop for gas and ice cream. Of course, he couldn’t predict traffic or road closures, and that map would make more than one appearance as my mom tried to co-navigate during the ride. But we’d make…

Clear visibility of device compliance is key for network operations. One of the biggest challenges though is to agree upon the definition of compliance since different environments have different requirements. The purpose of this blog is to share the current compliance capabilities in Cisco DNA Center that will help network administrators to keep the infrastructure safe and consistent. The current version of Cisco DNA Center, looks at device compliance from five different lenses in a…