Cisco Catalyst 6500 ready to serve you another decade!

The Cisco Catalyst 6500 was born more than 12 years ago when it started its baby steps in the networking market around June 1999. In the last dozen years this platform has seen great evolutions and even caused some ‘revolutions’ in the networking industry. The first release went out and stayed in the market for [...]

Before and after VXI

Recent studies have revealed that over 60% of enterprise companies plans to deploy desktop virtualization in some way over the next 3 to 4 years.  From a TCO point of view the advantages of desktop virtualization are simply amazing. As we move further into the so called “post-pc era”, having the ability to “port over” [...]

Cisco Prime NCS – A New Way of Managing “Access”

As mentioned in previous blogs regarding “enabling Bring Your Own device” or “New Ways of Working”, people will access the network  in more and more different and variable ways. Starting with Home Working in the morning, connecting on the road, working at a virtual desk in the office and returning to the home office. The [...]

Datanews 2/12/2011: « Helft van Belgische bedrijven wil iPad – La moitié des entreprises belges veulent utiliser l’iPad »

Datanews’ yearly survey amongst 300 telecom- and IT-responsibles of Belgian companies (http://t.co/gnsy0DNF) is very clear : around half of the companies plan to use an iPad or another tablet for mobile data services (up from 21% last year). Impressive is that 41% of the companies mentioned that employees could use their own smartphone. Priority for [...]

Wide Area Application Services

Network World has provided an independent review of the new WAVE appliances after conducting extensive lab testing of the appliances. The report’s executive summary says it all – “The latest release of Cisco’s WAN optimization product line — Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.4 — proves that the company famous for routing packets can also [...]

The IPv6 Implementation Action Plan (by TechWiseTV)

Isn’t real time to think about your company’s (and personal)  network migration to IPv6?  That’s why today I want to share this (quite long but) very interesting video produced by our  TechWiseTV friends Robb Boyd & Jimmy Ray. They have interviewed Cisco’s IPv6 experts around the world and walk us thru the key steps to successful implementation. The [...]

Fosdem 2011, IPv6 on Cisco’s Wireless

Over the last week-end, a group of Cisco’s volunteers, assisted the FOSDEM to get a proper network up and running; this is our story ! What is FOSDEM ? FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting, is the biggest free and non-commercial event organized by and for the community. It’s taking place in [...]

IPv6 Unified Communications

Hello, In this post I want to update you with what is available today when implementing Unified Communications on an IPv6 network. What you need to retain from this post, is that IPv6 is available today when deploying Cisco Unified Communications, and it can be enable in a few easy steps. (Let’s agree that this would [...]

IPv6 – the next generation challenge for Service Providers

John Chambers on IPv6 at Google Conference : As we near 2012 when the last IPv4 address is assigned to a new subscriber, SPs must maintain and continue to accelerate growth. Billions of new devices such as mobile phones, portable multimedia devices, sensors, and controllers will demand Internet connectivity in the next five years. SPs [...]

It’s lab time

When you receive your phone bill today and are surprised by the amount you have to pay. You immediately start inspecting the details about your telephone conversations. In there you can find all kinds of interesting information: telephone number called, duration of call, start and end time, cost,… After a thorough analysis you realise that [...]

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