Cisco Live Amsterdam: A Big Moment for SMBs

Cisco Live Amsterdam: A Big Moment for SMBs

Cisco Live 2025 in Amsterdam has officially wrapped up and our SMB booth was a hive of activity—buzzing with partners, customers, and industry leaders eager to see how Cisco is making IT simple, secure, and scalable for small and mid-sized businesses. A Booth Built for Experience Our goal was to go beyond just talking about SMB solutions—we wanted to show them in action. With live demos, real-world use cases, and expert-led sessions, attendees got hands-on…

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3 Takeaways from NRF 2025: Retail's Big Show

3 Takeaways from NRF 2025: Retail's Big Show

It’s been a few weeks since Cisco joined more than 40,000 retail industry leaders in New York City for NRF: Retail’s Big Show.  This event is consistently the pulse of the evolving retail landscape and serves as a central hub for what’s next in the industry. The 2025 event featured the theme “Game Changer,” and throughout the event experience, three game–changing takeaways stood out above the rest:  AI is driving new capabilities in personalized engagement…

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Power Your GenAI Ambitions with New Cisco AI-Ready Data Center Infrastructure

Power Your GenAI Ambitions with New Cisco AI-Ready Data Center Infrastructure

Let’s start with a staggering statistic: According to McKinsey, generative AI, or GenAI, will add somewhere between $2.6T and $4.4T per year to global economic output, with enterprises at the forefront. Whether you’re a manufacturer looking to optimize your global supply chain, a hospital that’s analyzing patient data to suggest personalized treatment plans, or a financial services company wanting to improve fraud detection—AI may hold the keys for your organization to unlock new levels of…

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Managed Assurance: Transforming Digital Experience with ThousandEyes on Meraki MX

Managed Assurance: Transforming Digital Experience with ThousandEyes on Meraki MX

In today’s technology landscape, ensuring reliable connectivity and peak performance for enterprise networks is increasingly challenging. With applications and services originating from outside your customer’s organization, partners need assistance in maintaining network performance and diagnosing issues as they arise. As managed services partners, your role in maintaining optimal digital experiences for clients is more critical than ever. Cisco’s integration of ThousandEyes with Meraki MX offers a robust solution to meet these demands. This integration has…

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MSPs: The Cisco Meraki Approach to Addressing MDU Deployments

MSPs: The Cisco Meraki Approach to Addressing MDU Deployments

Thank you to Chintan Patel for his invaluable expertise and insights on the topic of Meraki MDU design. He was instrumental in giving me the inspiration to write this blog.   In a previous blog article, I discussed the growing demand for wireless network deployments in the expanding MDU market and why now is the perfect time for MSPs to enhance their managed services offerings to address this market. Due to numerous questions and requests…

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How AI Innovation Will Elevate SMB Business Outcomes

How AI Innovation Will Elevate SMB Business Outcomes

AI-enriched networking, security, and observability solutions were the stars of Cisco Live—and for good reason. Technology advancements that were previously inconceivable are now possible—and easily accessible. Small and medium business leaders can benefit from cutting-edge enterprise capabilities thanks to the proliferation of AI. And they don’t have to build a sophisticated LLM or develop detailed generative AI prompts to deploy them. They can simply tap into the robust AI features available in Cisco solutions to…

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Jumpstart Your Meraki Auto-VPN Journey in the Multi-Cloud Environment

Jumpstart Your Meraki Auto-VPN Journey in the Multi-Cloud Environment

Try this hands-on learning lab:Learn how to use Terraform with Cisco Meraki As the Meraki Auto-VPN network becomes widely adopted for on-premises environments, the natural next step for customers will be to extend their automated SD-WAN network into their public cloud infrastructure. Most organizations have different levels of domain expertise among engineers—those skilled in on-premises technologies may not be as proficient in public cloud environments, and vice versa. This blog aims to help bridge that…

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MSPs: Capitalize on the Expanding Opportunities in the Booming MDU Market

MSPs: Capitalize on the Expanding Opportunities in the Booming MDU Market

What is an MDU? Multiple Dwelling Units (MDUs) refer to residential buildings designed to house multiple families or households within a single structure or complex. These versatile living spaces typically include apartment buildings, condominiums, dormitories, residence halls, student housing, senior/assisted living facilities, retirement communities, cooperative housing (co-ops), and the like. The MDU categorization also extends to various commercial scenarios such as malls, hotels, motels, hostels, and outdoor markets. All these environments typically require robust, scalable,…

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Simplify 5G Fixed Wireless Access and Scale Secure Connectivity to More Places

Simplify 5G Fixed Wireless Access and Scale Secure Connectivity to More Places

5G fixed wireless access (FWA) is transforming the way businesses connect to the global network, especially in areas where fiber is not available. Market analysis from Wells Fargo recently indicated that nearly all net-new broadband accounts in the United States are FWA. Despite this demand, FWA point solutions inhibit the scale potential of FWA when expanding to multiple locations. Businesses need a better way to implement 5G FWA across their growing branch footprints. Accelerating time-to-market…

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Revolutionizing Surveillance: Cameras with AI-Powered Object Detection

Revolutionizing Surveillance: Cameras with AI-Powered Object Detection

Unlock the True Potential of Meraki MV Cameras with AI and Computer Vision In today’s fast-paced world, simply having surveillance cameras isn’t enough. What if your cameras could not only record but also understand and interpret what they see? This isn’t a vision of the future—it’s happening now. By leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, your Cisco Meraki MV cameras can be transformed into powerful, intelligent surveillance tools. The Power of Meraki MV Cameras…

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