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Explosive Growth in Mobility and Location-based Marketing
Explosive Growth in Mobility and Location-based Marketing
It’s exciting to watch the explosive growth of mobile and hyper local based services. Mobile location based services and marketing is...
April 30, 2014
Are You Ready for Dev Ops and SDN Software Development with Cisco ONE?
Are You Ready for Dev Ops and SDN Software Development with Cisco ONE?
One of the great challenges of SDN – that many in my view underplay – is the change in paradigm from having a vendor deliver your network (hardware...
April 5, 2014
How a Snowboarding ‘Wipeout’ Can Guide You On SDN Deployment
How a Snowboarding ‘Wipeout’ Can Guide You On SDN Deployment
As I was thinking about how best to advise you on how to "experiment" with SDN technologies, and more specifically why you should run a formal pilot to evaluate...
Feb. 27, 2014
Three light beams that emanated from OpenDaylight Summit
Three light beams that emanated from OpenDaylight Summit
Earlier this month, I attended the first ever summit on OpenDaylight (ODL) project in Santa Clara, CA. This near sold out event was largely successful by
Feb. 21, 2014
How Next Generation WLAN Optimizes RoboCup at Bowdoin College
How Next Generation WLAN Optimizes RoboCup at Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College is a liberal arts college based in the town of Brunswick, Maine. It houses 1839 students in about 100 buildings and offers 33 different majors and...
Feb. 19, 2014
Get Started on SDN and Cisco ONE: Learn from Our New Technical White Paper
Get Started on SDN and Cisco ONE: Learn from Our New Technical White Paper
If you were to believe the industry press, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that many companies across the world were rolling software defined networking (SDN) technologies into their...
Feb. 14, 2014
Cisco InterCloud and Cisco Services: Accelerating Cloud Adoption
Cisco InterCloud and Cisco Services: Accelerating Cloud Adoption
Written by Krishnan Subramaniam, Director (Migration Services practice), Cisco Services According to repeat surveys by IDC, the bad news is that
Jan. 28, 2014
Use SDN Strategically – and NOT as a “Band Aid”
Use SDN Strategically – and NOT as a “Band Aid”
The other week I attended the “Software Defined Networking 2013” conference in London.  This is a UK-based event for...
Dec. 17, 2013
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 2
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 2
Last week I started my SDN reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference, and I found I had quite a lot to discuss. Last week I covered: Do we
Dec. 11, 2013
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 1
SDN Reflections on the London Gartner Data Center Conference – Part 1
Last week I was in London for the Gartner Data Center Conference.  As always there was a wide range of interesting topics being discussed, all very useful.  Working in Cisco...
Dec. 6, 2013
SDN: Cisco Domain Ten tells us it’s not (just) about the Network
SDN: Cisco Domain Ten tells us it’s not (just) about the Network
In my first SDN blog, I asserted that "Services" - that is technical support, professional and consultancy services - are the missing "S" in the SDN debate.  I'd...
Sept. 26, 2013
Interference Detection and Mitigation with Cisco CleanAir
Interference Detection and Mitigation with Cisco CleanAir
The previous blog on CleanAir went in depth on how MSE uses CleanAir information to locate interferers and the impact zone for each interferer. This blog takes a step...
Sept. 5, 2013