Cisco is Building an Internet of Everything Router
Cisco CEO Chambers says new ASIC disclosed at Cisco Live will be routing tech for ambitious initiative; and Insieme may include storage. Cisco is building a router for the Internet…
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Cisco ISR 4451-X, Prepared for Future Branch Network Needs
Cisco unveiled a new member of the Integrated Services Router family at the end of June. The ISR 4451-X might not seem that unique at first glance. Here’s Cisco releasing another new router that…
How to Configure Cisco Nexus 5500 Port Profiles?
A Cisco Nexus port profile is a group of port configuration directives that can be applied to an interface via a single command. In this way, a network engineer can…
Cisco vs. Juniper: How Different are Their SDN Strategies?
Cisco Live last week welcomed about 22,000 attendees to Orlando, with an additional 250,000 attendees participating virtually–record participation for this long-running and always-exciting event! CEO John Chambers admitted the company…
Cisco Fixes Web, Email, Content Security Appliance Vulnerabilities
Preface: Cisco has released patches for its networking appliance users and customers in order to address a number of security flaws. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to inject commands and…
Cisco to Acquire Composite Software for $180 Million
Preface: The networking giant wants to bolster its data virtualization software and services portfolio with the acquisition of Composite Software, which will build on its existing unified platform. Cisco announced…
Wi-Fi Alliance Announces 802.11ac Certification
Preface: The Wi-Fi Alliance announces its Wi-Fi Certified ac certification program, which aims to guarantee the interoperability of 802.11ac-enabled devices regardless of their hardware vendors or type of clients. On…
Rob Lloyd Will Be Cisco’s Next CEO?
Cisco CEO John Chambers will turn 64 years old this August. In the 18 years Chambers has been running the company, he has continually talked about and put off his…
Cisco CRS-X Core Router to Offer 10 Times Capacity of Original
Preface: CRS-X Delivers 10 Times the Capacity of CRS-1, Providing Lasting Investment Protection for More Than 750 Customers and 10,000 Systems Deployed Worldwide. Cisco has unveiled its third generation CRS…
Cisco Catalyst 2960-X Series Switches Debut at Cisco Partner Summit
On June 4th, 2013, Cisco announced that it upgraded its best-selling Catalyst switch by doubling its stacked port density, stacking bandwidth, buffers and CPU performance at Annual Cisco Partner Summit event.…
Internet of Everything, SDN Hot Topics in Cisco Partner Summit 2013
Cisco Partner Summit is the event of the year for the global Cisco channel community, and it gets mighty busy and collect most Cisco participants. With Cisco Systems’ Partner Summit 2013 coming…
Cisco Predicts Massive Data Networking Growth by 2017
M2M ramps up, helps contribute to zettabyte era. There are three sure things in life – death, taxes, and the insatiable hunger of people for more and more bandwidth. By…
How to Configure site-to-site IPSEC VPN on Cisco ASA using IKEv2?
The scenario of configuring site-to-site VPN between two Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances is often used by companies that have more than one geographical location sharing the same resources, documents, servers,…
How to Reset a Cisco Router Back to Factory Defaults?
There are two main methods to return a Cisco router to its original factory defaults. These two methods are described below. First Method This method uses the config-register 0×2102 command in global…
Cisco, Google Top Greenpeace IT Ranking 2013
In the middle and late of April (April 22 is the Earth Day) is every year, Greenpeace will release the latest version of its Cool IT Leaderboard, which remind us…
Secure SNMP in Cisco Switches and Routers
This article focus on the ways how we can secure SNMP access in Cisco Switches and Routers Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) uses the default UDP port 161 for general SNMP messages and UDP port 162…
Cisco Buys Firm Ubiquisys to Highlight Growing Interest in Small Cells
The sale of U.K. hardware company Ubiquisys to Cisco is one Europe’s biggest tech exits of the past several years. Operators and telecom equipment vendors are showing a growing interest…
Cisco to Acquire Cloud Integration Firm SolveDirect
Cisco has announced this week plans to acquire SolveDirect as the company looks at adding more management tools to make it easier for businesses to manage multiple IT systems. The…
Is Cisco Bothering With “Open” EIGRP?
EIGRP is an example of an Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), which is a network routing protocol that routers use to exchange routing information within an autonomous system (AS). EIGRP takes…
Networking Tutorial Goes to Basic PPP Configuration
This tutorial will be going over Basic Configuration of PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol). It includes Basic Configuration tasks on a router, configuring OSPF routing protocol, and configuring PPP PAP and CHAP…
Cisco SDN Strategy Doubles Cisco Software Business
As part of its goal to surpass $100-billion companies like Hewlett Packard and IBM to become the number one IT company in the world, Cisco will double its software business…
Cisco to Acquire Israeli Mobile Startup Intucell for $475 Million
Cisco announced it intends to buy Israeli software maker Intucell for about $475 million in cash to expand its mobile network management offerings. Cisco said Intucell’s software “enables mobile carriers…
