Find Your Path to Unmatched Security and Unified Experiences

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Imagine juggling multiple remotes for your entertainment system, each controlling a different device and requiring endless button presses to achieve a simple task. This is what managing a complex network security landscape can feel like—a jumble of disparate solutions, each demanding your attention and contributing to confusion.Today’s IT...

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Come Together Right Now, IT Operations Teams

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If you have been reading our blog series around the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report, you may have noticed two recurring themes. First, network infrastructure has become more complex, and second, this complexity is calling for a change in the way we operate. We have changed where we...

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Simplifying IT for Better Experiences

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IT leaders face the challenge of managing a growing set of often disparate technologies and successfully delivering them to a wide audience of end users who demand simple experiences. However, today’s technology landscape is complex and fragmented.Simplifying IT requires us to rethink our processes and what we mean...

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Bridging the IT Skills Gap Through SASE: A Path to Radical Simplification and Transformation

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Imagine a world where IT isn’t a labyrinth of complexity but instead a streamlined highway to innovation. That world isn’t a pipe dream—it’s a SASE-enabled reality.As we navigate the complexities of a constantly evolving digital world, a telling remark from a customer onstage with me at Cisco Live...

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Securing the Modern Hyper-Distributed Network: Perspectives from the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN

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A typical day’s tasks for today’s modern worker are frequently distributed across multiple devices, applications, and locations. They could be working from home, analyzing CRM dashboards, and later, they might be at a coffee shop reviewing slides for an upcoming customer meeting. Perhaps they then head into the...

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Make Your WAN Connectivity an Extraordinary Experience

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Alan Dapré, author of more than 60 children’s books said, “Why be ordinary when you can be extraordinary?” You may be thinking that “extraordinary” is not a term commonly associated with network connectivity. Shouldn’t it just be like water coming out of the faucet? A utility that is...

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Unifying Experiences Starts By Unifying SASE

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Over the years, advancements in technology and the endless waves of new innovations have created an unintended problem for most organizations today—overcomplexity. 53% of senior decision-makers say their IT environment is more complex than it was just two years ago.I explained how Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and...

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Something New: AP Discovery Methods for 6GHz Wi-Fi – Part 2

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In Part 1 (Something Old) we looked at basic changes to the physical layer provided by wave 1 of 801.11ax, how these changes can affect performance, and how OFDMA enables the optimal use of the 6GHz spectrum. In this second article, we’ll explore “something new:” the challenges of...

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Networking Demystified: The Modern Networking Stack

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Suppose you were to peruse any book or paper on the topic of computer networking. In that case, you will undoubtedly find at least a cursory mention of the OSI or TCP/IP networking stack. This 7 (or 5) layers model defines the protocols used in a communication network,...

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Deploying the Wi-Fi Network at Cisco Live EMEA 2023

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It is now the fourth time in a row that I had the chance to be part of the Cisco NOC team for Cisco Live EMEA.If we go even further back in time, I had the chance to go to Cisco Live for the Technical Design Clinics back...

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