The auditor also found Cisco “showed a wanton indifference to the interests of the public” in recommending the investment in its model 3945 branch routers, the majority of which were “oversized” for the requirements of the state agencies using them, the report stated.
via West Virginia auditor blasts Cisco, state for “oversized” router buy – Network World.
The SDN controller, more properly called the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Software Controller, would talk to routers and switches through a protocol such as OpenFlow.
As part of the demonstration, Cui inserted and removed a small external circuit board from the phone’s Ethernet port — a move he asserted could be accomplished by someone left alone inside a corporate office for a few seconds. He then used his own smartphone to capture every word spoken near the VoIP phone, even though it was still “on-hook.”
via Security Researcher Compromises Cisco VoIP Phones With Vulnerability – Dark Reading.
Meraki boasts a number of cloud-related offerings, from Ethernet switches and security appliances to a mobile device management platform and wireless LAN. Founded in 2006 and subsequently funded by a number of prominent firms, including Sequoia Capital and Google, Meraki touts itself as a shop for “easy-to-manage wireless, switching, and security solutions.” Business segments include supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) shops, retail analytics, and massive networks managed from a central point.
via Cisco Acquires Meraki to Strengthen Cloud Networking.
Service Provider Information Technology (SPIT) player Cloupia calls itself a “a leading data center orchestration and cloud management software provider” and has worked with Cisco and NetApp Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP), providing management for Cisco switches and NetApp storage appliances. The company’s speciality is providing provisioning, monitoring and management for physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Cisco is using its Mobility Services Advertisement Protocol (MSAP) client as the frontend to triangulate location data from small cells and Wi-Fi so that it can map out the locations of stores and more on different floors inside a building. Qualcomm will build this capability into the next generation of its Snapdragon chips for mobile devices, but Cisco is offering the software to enterprises now.
via Cisco Takes Location Indoors – IP & Convergence – Telecom News Analysis – Light Reading Mobile.
Total bid costs were the sum of Layer 2 hardware (and software), Layer 3 hardware (and software), Layer 2 maintenance, Layer 3 maintenance, training, and taxes and shipping. Cisco’s cost in each respective category was $51 million; $18.7 million; $34.3 million; $10.6 million; $1 million; and $7 million.
Alcatel-Lucent’s was $14.5 million; $2.5 million; $1.8 million; $798,000; $777,000; and $1.7 million.
via Cisco network really was $100 million more.
The comments in response to this article are superb and well worth the read. If you don’t drill down far enough this comment stood out for me (highlights mine).
it comes down to a architected solution vs best of breed. If you just want routing and switching (speeds and feeds) – -take it to bid and bid on the lowest vendor. Although there are still some advantages inherent within each product – you’re going to get what you get. But you can’t get business value out of switching and routing – its the applications! In SJSUs case – I laud the concept that you buy an architecture. If you need to deliver business applications like conferencing, video, call processing, presence/IM service, and contact center… as it appears sjsu was looking to do … why not buy the architecture that has been integrated and purpose built for the applicaitons. That is why SJSU is saying Cisco was the only vendor that had a solution. ALU doesn’t, brocade doesnt, HP doesnt…. the alternative is you could go to bid for each of these, take over a year to do it, once purchased, hire an IBM, Accenture, or build your own team to integrated them all, and then what do you have… a HUGE expense and stovepiped systems that don’t truly deliver the needs of the business today or tomorrow
Any college with a reputable Computer Science program should have many decent graduate students able to solve integrating applications from various vendors reducing the problem set to just speeds and feeds. It’s also not a good idea to buy into an architecture that ties one to a single vendor for applications.
As the world’s largest maker of networking equipment, Cisco occupies a large market share in China. It accounts for over a 70 percent share of China Telecom’s 163 backbone network and over an 80 percent share of China Unicom’s 169 backbone network.
Unlike the smartphone patent battles, where parties try to protect and grow their market share by suing each other over broad patents where no direct copying is required, let alone even knowledge that a patent exists, this litigation involved allegations by Cisco of direct, verbatim copying of our source code, to say nothing of our command line interface, our help screens, our copyrighted manuals and other elements of our products.
via Cisco Blog » Blog Archive » Huawei and Cisco’s Source Code: Correcting the Record.
That’s just an on-paper theory, but a compelling one. The acquisition of Nicira brings VMware uncomfortably close to being a networking competitor to Cisco. In fact, rumors persist that Cisco wanted Nicira as well, which helped drive the startup’s price beyond $1 billion.
via Light Reading – Ethernet – Cisco Gets Some SDN Help – Telecom News Analysis.
Expanding the ability of Cisco networking tools to work with Hyper-V could help Microsoft make its case that its server virtualization software is a viable alternative to VMware. The analyst firm Gartner has praised the Hyper-V technology and said Microsoft has the advantage of providing management tools that are familiar to Windows administrations, but that it has struggled to convert large enterprise customers from VMware to Hyper-V.
via Cisco plans virtual switch for Hyper-V in Windows Server 8.