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Even in the midst of the pandemic, revenues from SD-WAN grew 18.5% from 2019 to 2020, and is expected to grow another 26.5% this year, according to IDC. In the research firm’s forthcoming Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure Forecast, IDC projects compound annual growth of 18.9% through 2025, when total revenues will top $7 billion. “We expected to see a significant drop due to the pandemic, dragging the growth rate down to at least single digits,” said…

We know the future of connectivity is wireless and Cisco is continuing to disrupt the market through innovation. These technologies are not only changing the design of the internet but ensuring the connections are better than ever. Currently, 3 billion people on the planet are underserved in terms of internet access. Cisco is challenging the status quo of how we build and manage networks to build an inclusive future for all – rethinking how networks…

The working world’s shift to remote work and hybrid work conditions has many companies under pressure to adapt their network environments quickly. As a result, many companies are selecting a multi-cloud architecture to stay progressive. And with this influx of new users, it’s safe to say those cloud environments are set to be a permanent fixture. Now, multi-cloud may sound interesting, but to transition some real challenges. For example, how will companies start using the…

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…

Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021 winners have been officially announced, we are excited to introduce each winning team and the story behind each innovation. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an annual competition that awards cash prizes to early-stage tech entrepreneurs solving the world’s toughest problems. Now in its fifth year, the competition awarded its largest prize pool ever of $1 million USD to just 20 winning teams from around…

Pay-per-use hardware models such as HPE GreenLake and Dell Apex are designed to deliver cloud-like pricing structures and flexible capacity to on-premises data centers. And interest is growing as enterprises look for alternatives to buying equipment outright for workloads that aren’t a fit for public-cloud environments. The concept of pay-per-use hardware has been around for more than a decade, but the buzz around it is growing, said Daniel Bowers, a former senior research director at…