NETWORKING

Do you remember the “Alert When Available” feature in the (old) Cisco Jabber chat menu? If not, here is a quick recap. The “Alert When Available” option configured Cisco Jabber to notify you when your contacts are available (i.e., online/active). This makes it easier to know if other people are available to respond to your messages. For some reason, this option is missing from the Webex chat menu 🙄. So, without getting into a Jabber…

Today’s Service Providers are bringing to market next-generation solutions like 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), software-designed networking (SDN), zero-trust network access (ZTNA), secure access service edge (SASE), and real-time enterprise (RTE). Additionally, they are focused on keeping and recruiting essential skilled resources. They currently have an aging workforce who are retiring and taking expert-level networking skills with them. All industries are looking for new professional entrants with data science and analytics modeling skills. Also, the…

Co-Author: Richard JangTechnical Marketing Engineer in IBNG at Cisco Systems Cisco and Wipelot present the first real-time location system (RTLS) with an app hosting solution using Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) . The new normal makes sensitive location detection more critical than ever before, so that your business can operate more effectively and use resources more efficiently, thus reducing costs and improving the bottom line. Imagine how powerful it would be to have a centralized dashboard showing…

Looking back and reflecting on Cisco Partner Summit 2021 , I’m still so energized by all the announcements, launches, and sessions that took place. Before we close out this calendar year and everyone takes a little time to rest, reflect and re-energize, let’s take one last look back at Partner Summit 2021. Partner Summit has long been a key event for Cisco and its Partners, and this year proved to be no different. We built…

This blog is a joint collaboration between Cisco’s Ravi Balakrishnan and F5’s Patrick Campbell Over the past 2 years, we’ve been working on enabling F5 ADC services within the Cisco ACI fabric using the F5 ServiceCenter App. This App is an agile development effort. driven by field and user input and has evolved in multiple releases which are available from Cisco’s DC App Center.   The App downloads count continues to climb evidencing its value to…

Trigger Warning: This article mentions suicide. If you or a loved one has thoughts of suicide, please contact a suicide prevention hotline immediately. Following the massive Beirut, Lebanon port explosion in 2020, it made my heart ache to see many people in my country traumatized and struggling. This was compounded by the fact that this happened during ongoing and devastating long-term socio-economic collapse that the people of Lebanon have been experiencing. As described by the World…

The whois and jwhois commands allow you to retrieve a lot of information on Internet domains–likely a lot more than you might imagine. Here’s how these commands work and how they can be useful. To get started, you probably already use nslookup to check on domain names. When you do, you’ll see output like this: $ nslookup networkworld.com Server: 127.0.0.53 Address: 127.0.0.53#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: networkworld.com Address: 151.101.2.165 Name: networkworld.com Address: 151.101.66.165 Name: networkworld.com Address:…

In my surveys of enterprises, the number worried about vendor lock-in has hovered around 90% for 30 years.  When you ask enterprises how they avoid it, they respond “standard interfaces” or “open-source”. Even today, the percentage who include “managing APIs” in their list of lock-in avoidance measures is in the statistical noise level, but APIs are perhaps the fastest-growing lock-in problem today, and they’re surely going to become a major problem in the future. API…

The proposed Nvidia-Arm merger had another roadblock thrown in front of it when the US Federal Trade Commission’s filed a lawsuit objecting to the $40 billion deal last week. The acquisition met with almost immediate opposition from UK entities when it was announced in September 2020. Now, 15 months laster the FTC weighs in and has set an administrative trial for Aug. 9, 2022. “Tomorrow’s technologies depend on preserving today’s competitive, cutting-edge chip markets,” said…

In my surveys of enterprises, the number worried about vendor lock-in has hovered around 90% for 30 years.  When you ask enterprises how they avoid it, they respond “standard interfaces” or “open-source”. Even today, the percentage who include “managing APIs” in their list of lock-in avoidance measures is in the statistical noise level, but APIs are perhaps the fastest-growing lock-in problem today, and they’re surely going to become a major problem in the future. API…