Monday, 29 January 2018

Cisco Operational Insights: A New Way of Seeing Operations

Businesses thrive when they create value for their shareholder and stakeholders by maximizing revenues and minimizing costs. Technology, especially wireless and IoT, can be invaluable tools to achieve these goals. But, when it comes to operating costs, these IT pillars, while incredibly valuable, only address part of the challenge.

Friday, 26 January 2018

Flexible Algorithm makes Segment Routing Traffic Engineering even more agile

As more and more Service Providers and Enterprises operate a single network infrastructure to support an ever-increasing number of services, the ability to custom fit transport to application needs is critically important.

In that respect, network operators have been exploring Traffic Engineering techniques for some years now but have obviously run into many scaling issues preventing them from having an end-to-end, fine-grained control over the myriad services they offer.

Thursday, 25 January 2018

IoT Edge Compute Part 1 – Apps and Deployment on Cisco IoT Gateways

Why We Need Edge Compute


We have been hearing about the increasing need for compute at the edge of our network for IoT devices.  In case you are not familiar with this concept, edge compute is ncecessary due to the amount of information that is and will be generated from IoT devices.  The problem to be addressed is typically one of three things:

Monday, 22 January 2018

Why Our Partnership With Cisco is Crucial on the Road to Cloud

In Logicalis we see the cloud as the future. With our “Application Anywhere” vision we are following exactly what our customers require – putting more focus on the application, and providing the flexible infrastructure in accordance with cutting-edge hybrid cloud methodologies.

We are able to build a flexible underlay for our customers, so that they can build their applications however they like and wherever they like, using Virtual Machines or Microservices, in secure, single or multicloud environments, and give them the choice of the economic and end-to-end technical model of their preference.

Sunday, 21 January 2018

25G- The building block of Ethernet future

Every so often, we witness a major shift in the networking industry that fundamentally changes the industry landscape including product portfolios and investment strategies. The recent advancements in the 25G Ethernet speed technology, specifically at the Top of Rack server interfaces can be considered as one such occurrence. As we will see, there is a good reason why 25GbE ports are poised to become the most prevalent data center server access ports in next 5 years.

Friday, 19 January 2018

Capitalizing on 5G with the Right Network Function

Service providers have a lot to be thrilled about 5G. Its speed (think 10 Gbps), coverage, reliability, and lower latency will be a game changer in an increasingly mobile world.

5G networks are well-suited to deploy massive machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This opens up the potential to plenty of lucrative 5G use cases aimed at public and private enterprises, all of whom are looking to digitally transform.

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

On-Premises or Cloud Video Conferencing? How About Both?

Traditionally, the video conferencing market has been very firmly divided into premises-based products and cloud-based products. Premises-based products still dominate, though there is significant growth in cloud-based solutions. With premises products, IT departments deploy servers that they own and operate. Those servers provide the bridging, mixing, and switching functions for voice, video, and content share that make the meeting happen. With cloud-based solutions, a similar server exists – but – it’s in the cloud, of course, and it’s owned and operated by the SaaS vendor.