Conceptually, I’m not big on predicting what specific companies will or will not do. That’s what analysts are supposed to do. But we have talked plenty about Insieme over the last year and I feel like taking some guesses at what might be announced at Cisco Live US next week in an areas I think I know something about. It could be fun or foolish but I’ll take the punt. What the heck.
Planning for Cisco Live 2013 in Orlando
13th June 2013 by Leave a Comment
Cisco has sponsored the Packet Pushers Podcast to attend the Cisco Live 2013 event in Orlando, Florida. Although I will spend a lot of time in back rooms recording shows & receiving briefings ( always great to learn new things ) I have time set aside to meet people. Many listeners and readers have said that they would appreciate an opportunity to meet, say hello and have some discussions.
Rant: Everything at Cisco Is a “Game”
28th March 2013 by
Is everything at Cisco a game ? Cisco is changing the game, reducing complexity and making it simpler for enterprises to deliver and manage application delivery to users. Cisco ISR-AX is Now a Part of the Integrated Services Router Family!. Protecting Our Networks: It’s a Team Game Now! Cisco is changing the game for B2B [...]
Rant: A Better Cisco Software Experience (Licensing) for Partners (but Not Customers)
19th March 2013 by
Cisco customers can update their licenses using this handy portal. Sounds good ? Exciting ? No, not the person who bought the software license, the partner that sold you the license can update the licenses. You might have forgotten who is Cisco’s real customer, and it’s not the person who paid for products. Partners, the [...]
Do Cisco Certified Internet Engineers (CCIE) Get Special Privileges From Cisco ?
9th December 2012 by
I’m regularly asked the question: What privileges or special access does Cisco give to people when they pass the CCIE™exam ?
Short answer: None. Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zero.
Read on for the “Longer Answer”
The Huawei Security Problem Isn’t the Hardware, It’s Engineers Fixing the Bugs.
29th October 2012 by
I’ve been thinking about the security issues of working with Huawei equipment and Huawei the company. I’ve spoken with a number of people who, off the record, talk of working with Huawei as customers and their experiences of the product have been less than excellent but the price is low. What I’ve realised is concerning. [...]
Nexus 5500 Packet Forwarding – Cut Through or Store & Forward
23rd October 2012 by
Was reading through some documentation as noticed that the Nexus 5500 series has some unusual behaviours for Store and Forward. I made myself notes about the functional modes. Cut-Through vs Store and Forward In cut-through mode of operation a switch will start transmitting a frame before the frame has been completely received and this is the [...]
Cisco White Paper on IPS 4500 & 4300 Series Sensors
21st October 2012 by
Vendors are rarely believable when data sheets state the performance of IPS systems. That’s partly the fact that IPS performance is variable according to types of inspection rules that are configured and the amount of traffic hitting those rules, in use. In short, IPS performance is determined by the complexity of the rules you choose to [...]
Big Vendor Head Shuffles at the SDN Curling Rink
18th October 2012 by
Curling is a sport that involves people tossing a rock down an ice rink and then using brooms to guide it’s path. That’s a pretty apt description for employer changes in the SDN/OpenFlow space in the last few months. David Ward was leading the SDN portfolio at Juniper. Rumour has it that John Chambers saw [...]
Cisco Value in vCider Is All Programmable Networking
9th October 2012 by
Cisco recently bought vCider. vCider gives Cisco tools for cloud bursting and a proven network driver to deliver overlay networks. It’s a significant boost to their Programmable Networks strategy and definitely an SDN play.
The vCider technology was architecturally similar to Nicira by building tunnels overlays in a network and, in my view, many people are incorrectly misinterpreting this as the core value on the acquisition.
I would posit that there are two aspects to vCider that Cisco is likely to extract value from. 1 – Network driver in Linux. 2 – Cloud burst networking
