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Five App Trends to Watch for 2012

Posted on January 30, 2012 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The number of applications available for smartphones and tablets today are increasing exponentially. Every day consumers from all over the world download millions of apps from an increasing number of connected devices, including laptops, tablets, e-readers, smart TVs and smartphones.…

Cisco Smart Grid: Solutions for the Next-Generation Energy Network

Posted on January 18, 2012 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco Smart Grid is a holistic, cross-technology solution that enables utilities and other organizations in the energy industry to build secure, standards-based IP networks to efficiently meet the demands of energy generation, distribution, storage, and consumption. Cisco Smart Grid is…

Sharing Party: Where in the World Do You Take Cisco?

Posted on January 9, 2012 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Share your photos and stories on where you take Cisco for a chance to be featured on The Network! To recognize the level of engagement from our Facebook community and offer our fans other options to connect with us,…

Awesome, What Happened to Networking in 2011?

Posted on January 5, 2012 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

After about eight or nine years of networking innovation stagnation, the number of new innovations starting in 2010 and exploding in 2011 is astounding. Speed and feeds are increasing, but the exciting work in 2011 occurred in new technologies to…

Twelve Global Executives to Watch in 2012

Posted on December 30, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Reputations, money, survival. A lot hangs in the balance in 2012 for the prominent heads of many global companies. Here’s a rundown of a dozen of the more intriguing business scenarios and the executives who will need to navigate through…

Cisco Catalyst 6000/6500, Aim at Enterprise Network & Service Provider Networks

Posted on December 28, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The Cisco Catalyst 6000/6500 family represents the flagship of the Cisco Catalyst switching product range. The switch is aimed at the enterprise network and also at service provider networks. The Catalyst 6000/6500 is chassis-based, which means that it consists of…

25 Top Network and IT Industry News Stories of 2011

Posted on December 27, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

What big news made a great impression on you in 2011? Well, 2011, a year full of unforgettable stories, will be remembered for the death of Steve Jobs, Cisco’s refocusing, IPv6’s coming-out party, Google Executive Go-Round, Android Market Feels Malware…

Cisco OnPlus, Cloud-based Managed Services Launched Aimed at SMBs

Posted on December 26, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco has launched a cloud-based managed services program, OnPlus, for channel partners seeking to offer remote network management and assessment to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). “Small businesses need a lot of support — financial, marketing, technical, etc. Managed services…

Self-defending Networks, the Marketing’s Dead, and the Goal’s Alive

Posted on December 13, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco security Chief John Stewart on the future of the ‘self-defending network’ and why IT security shops must return to basics. The foundation for a self-defending network is integrated security – security that is native to all aspects of an…

Microsoft Hyper-V: What It Means for Cisco Nexus 1000v

Posted on December 12, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

For enterprise and service provider customers who want to extend Cisco networking experience to their Microsoft Windows Server 8 Hyper-V deployments, Cisco offers a full portfolio of virtual networking technologies through the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches and Cisco Unified…

CloudVerse: Cisco Storms into the Cloud Market

Posted on December 8, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco CloudVerse, codenamed Hurricane, a framework that combines unified data center, cloud intelligent networks and cloud applications, is Cisco’s cloud coming-out party. Looking to make it easier for IT solution providers and end-user companies to unify hybrid cloud environments, Cisco…

Core Topics Covered on the CCNA Exam

Posted on December 5, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Passing the Cisco CCNA certification is not an easy task. Cisco ensures passing the CCNA remains prestigious by maintaining the difficulty level of the CCNA exam by changing the exam pattern regularly. With the difficulty level being where it is,…

Cisco IOS, The World’s leading Network Infrastructure Software

Posted on November 8, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech |

What’s the Cisco IOS? Cisco IOS (originally Internetwork Operating System) is the software used on the vast majority of Cisco Systems routers and current Cisco network switches. (Earlier switches ran CatOS.) IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking and…

Cisco Finds Mobile Devices More Important Than Higher Salaries

Posted on November 4, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco Gen-Y study: New research reveals that Generation Y employees prefer device freedom over higher pay, and they would rather lose their wallets than their smartphones. A recent study published by Cisco of more than 2,800 college students and young…

Cisco Interview Questions Help You Be a Cisco Staff

Posted on November 2, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

INTERVIEW is so common for us, but the more important is something special in an interview. Yeah, to be special or to show your special talent may deeply impress your interviewer. An interview always contains many parts that test Your…

High Resale Value, Notable Trait Cisco and Toyota Have in Common

Posted on October 31, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco, Toyota, they’re both reliable, ubiquitous…and have high resale value Cisco is the like the Toyota of the networking hardware industry – while not exactly on the lower end of the price scale, these established brands are known for…

The Fifth Anniversary of Cisco TelePresence, New Flavors

Posted on October 28, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco reaches out to small and medium-sized businesses with new telepresence options beyond the boardroom. Telepresence has many potential financial and productivity benefits, but not all businesses can afford the upfront costs of enterprise-class technology. Cisco is aiming to fill…

OpenFlow and SDN, the Networking’s Future?

Posted on October 25, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

The future of networking will be defined by software. — PALO ALTO, Calif. That was the overriding theme after the first day of the inaugural Open Networking Summit, a conference dedicated to software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow, the open source…

Eight Steps to Protect Your Cisco Router

Posted on October 24, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Network security is a completely changing area; new devices like IDS (Intrusion Detection systems), IPS (Intrusion Prevention systems), and Honeypots are modifying the way people think about security. Companies are spending thousands of dollars on new security devices, but forgetting…

Guess: What Are the Main Top Tech Trends in the Near Future?

Posted on October 20, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

2011 is approaching end, and 2012 is coming. What’s the most impressive thing for you? How do you think about your 2011? Well, So many things we can talk about, so many experiences we can share. With the fast development…

Cisco Refreshes Nexus switches to Handle Increasing Data Centre Demands

Posted on October 19, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Cisco has upgraded and extended its Nexus switches to handle increasing data centre demands Cisco Systems is rolling out a host of new and enhanced data centre networking products to bolster the scalability, flexibility and security of its networking fabric.…

Rivals or Partners? HP and Cisco Announced the Cisco Fabric Extender for HP BladeSystem

Posted on October 18, 2011 by RouterSwitch Tech | 0 Comments

Despite a growing rivalry in the data center, HP and Cisco have co-developed a network switch for joint customers who run HP blade servers and Cisco networking gear. Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard, despite an increasingly strained relationship, apparently can still…