There is a certain value associated with getting in early, riding the wave, and then jumping ship to go to work for the next hot company. Serial startup employees assume folks that work for "large" companies like Cisco fantasize a...
I didn't quite appreciate it, however over the years, I've become a data center geek! My job doesn't involved working daily in a data center, but when I do get to visit one, I find the facilities and energy design principles...
In my previous blog in this series, I shared the key components needed for an Innovation Funding Board (IFB) to function effectively, including the importance of establishing what success will look like at the outset. Now, I'll br...
Unless you were living under a rock or holed up in a bunker, you most likely saw the video of the professor doing a live interview with the BBC from his home office when his kids stole the spotlight. My husband was the first pers...
For those of you who know me, you know that I've dedicated much of my career to the development of Internet standards. The Session Initiation Protocol -RFC 3261 (SIP) was part of joint research I did with Professor Henning Schrulz...
Hello all, Here is a quick note to announce the 3rd and final week's winner: John Wieser, from Auburn, Washington! Congrats John! Mr. Wieser was shipped a Cisco Shirt, Backpack and Journal along with a Cisco RV Series Router. Stay...
The post was authored by Sean Baird, Edmund Brumaghin and Earl Carter, with contributions from Jaeson Schultz. Executive Summary The Necurs botnet is the largest spam botnet in the world. Over the past year it has been used primar...
We've reached a tipping point in education. Students have unique needs and require new models for learning that keep them engaged and allow them to learn at their own pace. Curriculum is becoming more personalized and can happen b...
Posting this blog on behalf ofBabi Seal,Senior Manager, Product Management, INSBU, who has been driving BGP EVPN based solutions in the datacenter. Digital disruptors have challenged established business models by creatin...
The Data Center Interconnect (DCI) segment can be a difficult one to analyze across equipment vendors. Over-the-Top (OTT) providers are not always eager to advertise the architectures of their newest data centers, describe their D...
As we head to MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress this week, I'm reminded of conversations I have with Service Providers all the time. They tell me how they need complete solutions to meet their business need...
The term web-scale has been with us just a few years. Mainly referring to managing a data center infrastructure with capabilities to scale in size, speed and agility, it has usually been associated with large cloud service firms s...