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All rights reserved to Sandra Cifo You may have noticed that in the last few weeks, the industry has been talking a lot about Wi-Fi 6E. Count Cisco among the conversation starters about Wi-Fi 6E too. In fact this Wireless blog has been chock-full of more and more posts talking about Wi-Fi 6E. These conversations have probably lead to a number of questions: what about Wi-Fi 6? What’s going on with that standard? The answer…

This summer, we witnessed the future of broadcasting, and it wasn’t the first time the Olympics were involved. When the Games were first held in Tokyo in 1964, it made history for being the first live televised broadcast. Fifty-seven years later, with the help of 6,700 pieces of Cisco equipment, NBC Olympics was able to deliver more than 7,000 hours of coverage across multiple platforms. The ingenuity behind the scenes was Cisco helping power the…

I love where I work. As a Product Manager at Cisco, I get to influence and change the way people connect to the network. But how much do I love where I work? Enough to bring my daughter to work! Although, I think I took the term “bring your kid to work” to the next level. You may be thinking, like many parents, that I sometimes would bring my kids to work with me for…

Edge computing is shaping up as the most practical way to manage the growing volume of data being generated by remote sources such as IoT and 5G devices. A key benefit of edge computing is that it provides greater computation, network access, and storage capabilities closer to the source of the data, allowing organizations  to reduce latency. As a result, enterprise are embracing the model: Gartner estimates that 50% of enterprise data will be generated…

With IT budgets growing at the fastest rate in 10 years, worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.5% from 2021, according to the latest Gartner forecasts. All IT spending segments—from data-center systems to communications services—are forecast to grow next year, according to Gartner.  Enterprise software is likely to have the highest growth in 2022 at 11.5%, driven by infrastructure software spending. Global spending on devices grew over 15% …

The maximum transmission unit (MTU) is the largest number of bytes an individual datagram can have without either being fragmented into smaller datagrams or being dropped along the path between its source and its destination. For Ethernet frames—and many other types of packets—that number is 1500 bytes, and it generally meets the requirements of traffic that can cross the public internet intact. So, if 2000-byte Ethernet packets arrive at a router, it will split their…

As we age, it’s recommended by doctors that we invest in ourselves with a balanced diet, adequate sleep, and regular exercise to maintain optimal health. Similarly, as enterprises and service providers’ businesses grow, they must continually invest in their infrastructures to maintain optimal connectivity for employees and customers. In the best of times, this was a challenge. Then came the pandemic, introducing the challenge of sustaining remote – and eventually hybrid – work. With hybrid…

The Cisco IoT Operations Dashboard provides operations teams with a centralized, cloud-based dashboard to securely deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot device connectivity. Using this secure connectivity as a foundation, that same dashboard then enables you to extract, transform, govern and deliver data from IoT edge devices to the cloud with Cisco Edge Intelligence, install and manage your containerized edge applications and to deploy a broad range of industrial IoT sensors with Cisco Industrial Asset Vision. Once…

Calling all curious IT pros  Do you value staying informed about the latest trends in networking?  Curious what technologies are just over the horizon that might affect the ways you are managing your network or your customers’ networks?  Looking for a great opportunity to step outside your daily grind?  If that sounds like you, please join us for a brief webinar.  On November 3rd at 10AM Pacific Time, our networking leaders will discuss some of the findings from our recent research on this year’s global networking trend in focus: Network as a Service (NaaS).    What…

No one buys a server for its own sake. People buy servers to run applications. Cisco UCS servers are being used from core infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, etc.) to mission critical / business critical apps. It’s an app-centric world and Cisco X-Series is here for more of them. With six local drives on a UCS X210c node and UCS X-Fabric capabilities, UCS X-Series modular servers blur the lines for what is considered a traditional blade or…