NETWORKING

Connectivity to the internet is now critical: it empowers communities and businesses to connect from any location, forever changing our economy, our relationships, and our lives. The digitalization of society is rapidly accelerating, but unfortunately, not everyone can participate equally. In Ethiopia, for example, we’re working with WebSprix to bring high-speed broadband access to its population of 115 million, were less than 270,000 currently have fixed broadband access. In the United States of America, roughly…

For the office to have a future, it must offer employees added value. Collaboration software and a laptop are no longer enough to be effective and productive in and out of the office. It has to be completely rethought. Over the past year, many have seen the office move to the kitchen table at home from one day to the next. What was initially unfamiliar has now become part of everyday life – many people no longer…

AUSTIN, Texas, June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The pandemic forever changed the relevance of video conferencing. Just one week into global lockdowns, 62 million users downloaded video conferencing apps alone.1 This is only the beginning; by 2026, the video conferencing market is expected to exceed $50B in revenue.2 While special moments like baby showers and weddings might eventually shift back to being in-person, remote work has become the norm for many and our reliance on video…

The Gateway Triangle is a new podcast series featured on The Global Gateway, Cisco’s customer advocacy community with thousands of advocates worldwide! I host the podcast along with my colleague, Katie Meerstein. The podcast features team members from Cisco’s Global Advocacy organization, as well as our valued customer advocates who make The Gateway possible. We love to keep it laid back while we discuss tech, advocacy, and life in general. The first customer we’re featuring…

Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) is transforming the telecommunication industry. It changes traditional appliance-based RAN deployment to more open, interoperable, standard-based and virtualized radio access  network. O-RAN deployments remove vendor lock-in and enable telecom service providers to take advantage of virtualization, utilize telecom edge for innovative apps and services, and save costs. The Cisco Nexus 93180YC-FX3 platform is a popular Data Center switch for O-RAN deployment at Telco Far Edge locations because of its support of the…

Co-authored by Luis Islas and Liz Torrence Liz’s Story Hi, my name is Liz Torrence, and I am a Customer Success Manager at Cisco. A proud Cisconian, I drank the “Cisco Kool-Aid” early on, when I was only sixteen years old and part of the Cisco Networking Academy program. My high school was the first to implement the program in Mexico, which allowed me and my brother to have hands-on experience into the IT world….

Linux systems can report on a lot more configuration details than you likely ever knew were available. The trick is using the getconf command and having an idea what you are looking for. Watch out though. You might find yourself a bit overwhelmed with how many settings are available. To start, let’s look at a few settings that you might have expected to see to answer  some important questions. For starters, how long can a…

When the pandemic hit last spring, employees suddenly began working from home, enterprises quickly shifted applications to the cloud, and secure remote access became critical. As we move (hopefully) beyond the pandemic, it’s clear that enterprise networking has been changed forever. Companies are looking at new technologies like SASE to combine networking and edge security into one manageable platform. Zero-trust network access has moved from the back burner to the hotseat as companies seek a…

This blog is a joint collaboration between Cisco (Ravi Balakrishnan) and F5 (Patrick Campbell) Having to debug a network issue can be a daunting task, involving 100’s of IP address’s spread across your entire deployment. Imagine having a tool which can help with getting all the information you want of an IP address with a click of a button. The F5 ACI ServiceCenter is one such tool designed to do exactly that and more. Telemetry streaming…

Any file on a Linux system that isn’t a text file is considered a binary file–from system commands and libraries to image files and compiled programs. But these files being binary doesn’t mean that you can’t look into them. In fact, there are quite a few commands that you can use to extract data from binary files or display their content. In this post, we’ll explore quite a few of them. file One of the…