How do you know #LoveWhereYouWork is more than a saying? For me, there’s lots of reasons – but less than three weeks before the arrival of my firstborn, my team in Customer Experience showed that in a way unlike any other. During an all hands meeting, it was announced that a member of our leadership was at someone’s door with a surprise. Everyone was shocked, and immediately the team’s expressions shifted as a few asked,…

It’s Cold. It’s Dark. It’s the middle of Nowhere. And somewhere out there is a mountain. At any moment I will begin a twisty, turvy, challenging journey – that includes running 100 miles all at once. Sometimes I wonder what I’m even doing out there, but then I remember it’s a lot like my life – and my career journey to Cisco as a Sales Engineering Leader on our Global Demo Engineering Team. How are…

Cisco Makes $150 million Commitment to help HBCUs Strategically Recover and Flourish Cisco’s purpose is to power an inclusive future for all. This means building a workforce that is reflective of the world we live in, helping to connect the unconnected, and answering the call to those in need. With our purpose as our backdrop, Cisco committed to being a part of the reckoning on racial injustice that affected us profoundly. Last September, we unveiled our Social…

A Comparative Analysis of Architectures and Their Trade-offs Organizations have many options when implementing an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN). Choice of network design with respect to overlay routing may be influenced by a combination of factors, including scalability, multi-tenancy, segmentation, and operational simplicity. Understanding the key differences among various overlay routing architectures makes it possible to evaluate and choose an implementation that offers a best fit for an organization. This blog post compares the…