In the blink of an eye, the world realized how critical the Internet is to our daily lives. Video conferences replaced physical meetings. Virtual “happy hours” replaced get-togethers. And over 1.2 billion children began distance learning. The Heroes and The Villain Heroes emerged, some maintaining critical connectivity for humanity to function. Almost overnight, the Internet seemed to cross a fuzzy boundary between luxury and necessity. Traffic spiked by 25% to 45% across the globe. Cloud-first…

Today we’re excited to announce the next chapter in the evolution of our Converged SDN Transport architecture, our new Routed Optical Networking, and cloud-native BNG solutions. And we are also pleased to announce some other noteworthy additions to the Cisco routing portfolio for mass-scale network infrastructures including the new NCS 540 Small Density Router, the new NCS 5700, and updates to the NCS 560, the ASR 9000 series, and the Cisco 8000 series. The NCS…

Cisco has taken a big step forward with its first network-as-a-service offering that ultimately will let customers buy enterprise-network hardware and software components on an as-needed basis. The company announced the service, called Cisco Plus,  at its virtual Cisco Live 2021! conference, telling customers its NaaS will offer best-in-class networking, security, compute, storage, and applications with unified subscriptions that promise to be simple to use. Now see: Who’s selling SASE, and what do you get?…

If the last year has taught us anything, it is that every organization must be aligned to move with speed, agility, and scale to achieve required outcomes. You need the flexibility to quickly adapt to changing priorities, both expected and unexpected. With the increase in remote workers, growth in IoT, data privacy and sovereignty challenges, and the rise in cyber threats, traditional networking and security has become even more complex. IT teams cannot continue working…

Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Interconnect with Megaport Delivers On-Demand, Cloud-Agnostic Interconnects According to a Flexera report (1), 93% of enterprises have developed a multicloud strategy, and 87% have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile IaaS is forecast to grow 23.9% year over year” according to Gartner (2). Enterprises, however, are facing challenges securely connecting to their cloud deployments. The Internet offers only best-effort connectivity with inconsistent network quality, which can significantly impact application performance, while direct cloud interconnects require customers to…

Many enterprises have already made significant investments in their shift to the cloud, so the ultimate challenge now is how to realize the full transformational promise of the cloud while achieving a multiplier effect from those investments. Many are quickly coming to the realization that their traditional router-centric enterprise WANs and perimeter-based security approaches were never designed for today’s cloud-first world. Today, more applications are hosted in the cloud than in traditional enterprise data centers,…