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Unified Communication Manager Evolution Blog Series The evolution blog series focuses on the latest developments of Unified Communications Manager, what’s new in the latest versions, the best functions and features that clearly demonstrate the value of upgrading older versions, whether that’s on-premise, in the cloud with Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cloud, or a Cisco Hosted Collaboration solution. The world is changing and evolving… These blogs explore why, and so must we. If the year 2020…

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that the old adage is true: necessity truly is the mother of invention. It’s also shown us that when we work together, not only can we adapt, but we can overcome challenges and even achieve things we previously hadn’t thought were possible. Our partners have been the very embodiment of those ideas over the course of this year, helping in ways large and small all around the world….

I was intrigued to learn that certain coyotes and badgers team up while hunting. If the prey runs fast, the coyote takes the lead. If the prey dives underground, it’s the badger’s department. IT and OT can take note. They share a common enemy: cyberattacks targeting the industrial networks that connect Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and industrial control systems (ICS) that control valves, boilers, breakers, motors, robots and everything else that makes industrial operations…

This post was written by Shawna Darling, CSR Programs Development Manager at Cisco. Shawna leads program development for Cisco corporate social responsibility initiatives including Global Problem Solvers: The Series and the annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge.  More than ever, we, Cisco, believe in the power of technology to solve global problems. In recent history, never have we been more in need of innovative technology solutions that positively impact nearly aspect of society. From public…

Within our Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) 3.0 release, we started talking about dynamic visibility. But what is dynamic visibility, what are the benefits, and why should we care? Maybe we should begin with what it is not. Dynamic visibility is not assuming trust based on location. It is not authenticating or establishing trust, based solely on login credentials or a single device identifier such as MAC address. Dynamic visibility has context that can be…

Cisco Webex Named a Leader  The customer voice is the most important one when it comes to evaluating product and feature performance. It’s why we’re happy to see Webex ranked as a leader in the recent G2 Fall 2020 Enterprise Grid Report for Video Conferencing, with a G2 score of 95. This a calculation balances market presence and customer satisfaction. Webex Meetings also received the most reviews in the Video Conferencing category in the report,…

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…