Your company has always made demands on the network, but in the last ten years, the biggest demand has been for more bandwidth. While increasing bandwidth is still important, supporting the diverse set of applications now coming onto the scene is going to impact how you design and manage your network from edge-to-core. Our Next Generation Network Tech Center delivers best practices, emerging trends, new products and strategies to help you prepare for the next generation network.
News and Analysis
Cisco's Chambers Conjures Future of Network
Cisco CEO John Chambers talks up application-centric infrastructure and the continued role of hardware.
10 Ways Software-Defined Networking Will Change IT
When networking professionals converge upon New York for Interop this week, software-defined networking (SDN) stands to establish itself as a major theme throughout session talks and informal conversations. As the industry watches the results of early adopter case studies and hears pundits advocate for this new means of controlling the network fabric, consensus is building for the potential that SDN could be an IT game-changer. Here's how, in the words of experts from around the industry.
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Blogs
802.11ac: Time To Change Vendors?
August 02, 2013 11:47 AM
Posted by Lisa Phifer
Enterprise WLANs are facing massive change with the arrival of certified 802.11ac products. Take this opportunity to consider other vendors as you upgrade.
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Cisco Aims To Increase Services Business
July 12, 2013 05:35 PM
Posted by Greg Ferro
Cisco announced plans to grow its services business by 9% to 11% in the next 12 months. Look for more cloud services that resellers can package for customers.
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Software-Defined Networks Gaining Traction Among Carriers
July 11, 2013 01:01 PM
Posted by Serdar Yegulalp
Infonetics survey shows global telecom carriers are intrigued by SDNs and taking initial steps to deploy the technology.
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SDN's Next Steps: Product Integration
July 01, 2013 02:42 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
SDN interoperability demonstrations and hackfests point to a small but growing movement toward product integration as software defined networking evolves.
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Cisco Internet Of Things Business Unit Unveiled
June 28, 2013 01:21 PM
Posted by Kurt Marko
Networking giant gets serious about machine-to-machine communications at Cisco Live with the launch of a new unit that promises to turn IoT hype into reality.
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Cisco Insieme: It'll Do Stuff, But We Won't Tell You
June 26, 2013 11:09 AM
Posted by Andrew Conry Murray
A live Cisco Webcast about Insieme, a Cisco-backed venture, provided remarkably little detail about the startup or its forthcoming products.
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