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Dedicated RF Engine offloads operations for higher performance and better analytics You might have heard me screaming from the LinkedIn and Twitter mountaintops about how honored Cisco and the Cisco Wireless team are to have Cisco RF ASIC named the winner of the Best Enterprise Wi-Fi Network Technology Award by the WBA. However, in that moment, while I announced that Cisco won, I didn’t take the opportunity to explain why. With that in mind I…

If you haven’t heard yet, Cisco recently released a new Catalyst access point, the Catalyst 9105 AP. It’s a revolutionary product that is a solution for small to medium-sized organizations. The sleek Cisco Catalyst 9105 Access Points provide Cisco cutting-edge features at a lower price point. The access points support the Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) standard and offer two distinct mounting options (ceiling and wall) allowing for optimal organizational flexibility. You could read more about the…

The community around the open-sourced Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) NOS got a little stronger as Apstra says its intent-based networking software is now more ready for enterprise prime-time than implementations from Cisco and Arista. The Linux-based NOS, developed and open sourced by Microsoft in 2017, decouples network software from the underlying hardware and lets it run on switches and ASICs from multiple vendors while supporting a full suite of network features…

Nearly 70% of the 500 fastests supercomputers in the world as announced at the Supercomputing 20 conference this week are powered by Nvidia, including eight of the top 10. Among them was one named Selene that Nvidia built itself and that debuted at Number 5 on the semi-annual TOP500 list of the fastest machines. With top-end systems requiring 10,000 or more CPUs and GPUs, they are enormously expensive, so government or research institutions own the…

Follow along with our blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow, where we’ll address healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate.  In the past few months, we’ve seen huge shifts in how people are working. This naturally extends to the healthcare industry, where care delivery continues to be a priority, even amidst social distancing and shifts in the workplace. Earlier this spring, the Webex UX Research team conducted an extensive qualitative study…

The author of this blog is Khaled Abuelenain. Khaled is the Consulting Director at Acuative, and a double CCIE (RS & SP). This is Part 3 of the “Introduction to Programmability” series. If you haven’t already done so, I strongly urge you to check out Parts 1 & 2 before you proceed. You will be missing on a lot of interesting information if you don’t. Part 1 of this series defined and explained the terms Network…

Founder and CEO of Modern Health, Alyson Watson This blog post comes from Alyson Watson, the Founder and CEO of Modern Health, a comprehensive mental wellness platform that has raised $42 million to provide mental health benefits to employees around the world. She presented at Cisco’s Women Rock-IT event on November 12. Click here to watch the recording on demand.  We all know 2020 has been a really tough year. Here in the U.S., we’ve faced simultaneous crises…

Huawei offers a combination of technology that is essential for the transformation of global energy companies as they strive to achieve their goals of delivering a greener, more reliable, and more secure energy future. The world’s demand for energy is insatiable. But for energy companies, meeting that need requires them to navigate a series of challenges. Climate change looms large in discussions, creating an ongoing requirement for existing players to invest in low carbon solutions,…

If wireless networking were a middle-school cafeteria, the cool kids would be hanging together at tables called Wi-Fi 6 or 5G. The latest generation of wireless technologies offers much faster download and upload speeds. It slashes latency. In short, it goes well beyond what the current generation can do, either in terms of a single stream of data from a device, or more important in industrial IoT networks to implement higher density of devices and…

As the workplace becomes more disrupted and the workforce more distributed, data and applications need to be accessible from anywhere with both security and optimized performance. Organizations need a secure, agile network fabric to keep everything and everyone securely connected and collaborating. Just in time to meet this new normal of operations, Cisco SD-WAN is playing an outsized role in securely connecting data centers, cloud resources, SaaS applications, and the distributed workforce. Cisco Secure SD-WAN…