A successful 5G evolution will be more than just a new radio access technology -it will be a new architecture. Cisco is leading the way by driving development toward a virtualized architecture that extends complex intelligence fro...
I used to hate meetings. But we all know meetings are critical to running a business. They are basically the operating engine of a company. Meetings are just how people get work done... even though they are often boring and occasi...
We all deal with massive amounts of data in our day-to-day lives. Sometimes it may feel like we're sinking under the weight of that avalanche. Meanwhile there is so much talk about Big Data, analytics and the Internet of Things, o...
About 18 months ago, members of my engineering team conducted customer site visits and came back with a most interesting challenge. They met a Spanish teacher who needed to teach a physical/virtual class over video, but current te...
When I hear the term "power trio", I think of Geddy, Neil and Alex. A band, where there's just a bass, drums and guitar, with one of 'em singing. By the way, if you like Rush, I'm guessing you'll l...
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual Meeting and Trade Show is fast approaching! If you're planning to attend ATA 2016 from May 15-17 in Minneapolis, be sure to visit the Cisco booth to see how Cisco video and ...
As cloud-based solutions continue to proliferate, it's clear that the virtualized video revolution has already begun. How much of your video infrastructure still relies on dedicated appliances? Today, a growing number of pay TV pr...
At the recently concluded OpenStack summit in Austin, I was impressed by the amount of interest shown by attendees on containers. Almost all of the container related sessions were packed as customers are now realizing its adv...
Intel?recently released a white paper on FFmpeg Linux transcoding performance with Intel Quick Sync Video using the Intel Media Server Studio on the Intel Xeon?E3-1285L v4 processor. This white paper details the trade-offs in tran...
It was in mid-March, I posted a blog about the new level of simplicity Cisco Nexus Fabric Manager (NFM) brings when configuring your fabric underlay and VXLAN overlay. Essentially...a point-and-click approach without requiring a s...
We went to Austin for BBQ,and an OpenStack Summit broke out... ...OK, maybe that's not entirely true, but the BBQ was good. When we started this journey less than 5 weeks ago in preparation for the Austin OpenStack Summit, we'd al...
Cisco just received wonderful news from SAP:Customers love us! OK, we already knew that -not because we are all above-average looking (although we are) or because we're hounded at the grocery story by Cisco groupies (it cou...