When I meet with manufacturers, I usually hear some version of the following: “We’re digitizing to get real-time visibility into production and improved operational equipment effectiveness. But now we’re worried about malware interrupting operations. What can we do?” News headlines have erased any doubts about the need for industrial network cybersecurity. The trickier question is how to secure the network without interrupting production and revenue. To provide guidance, we’ve created Cisco Validated Designs for industrial…

Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe, which translated means German Sports Aid Foundation, was founded in Berlin in 1967 and is currently headquartered in Frankfurt. The foundation represents approximately 4,000 elite German athletes, helping them with personal and career development in parallel to positioning them as role models in society. The foundation prioritizes fair play and sports integrity, and organizes a number of annual sporting events to generate income and bring together athletes, supporters, entrepreneurs, and sponsor partners…

Wireless telemetry and deep learning models can significantly improve wireless performance. The following papers discuss these technologies in detail and provide techniques that can help advance wireless to provide superior receiver decoding and enhanced Multi-User MIMO performance. Deep Learning-Based Receiver Design for 802.11ax Systems A traditional processing pipeline typically involves a sequence of signal processing-based algorithms, including channel estimation, common phase error correction, sampling rate offset correction, and equalization. In DeepWiPHY, we introduce a deep…

It’s thrilling to lead security in small and midsized companies. We face many of the same threats as enterprises. With the growing emphasis on supply chain security, we share the same compliance obligations. We’re closer to the business leadership, and we’re closer to (sometimes embedded within) the IT team. With a fraction of the resources, we pull off the impossible quarter after quarter, year after year. It’s exciting but it isn’t without uncertainty. As we…

As Asia Pacific becomes home to innovation and growth in this digital era, a decade where industry 4.0 vision will be realized. It is time to move past the legacy and layered network architecture to evolve SP networks into a digital platform that is enabled to create value plays for each enterprise vertical that benefits from a digital connection. The world is waking up to 5G. Accelerated digitization of the industries can only be realized…