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Advertising Agency Transforms Communications Processes
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Advertising Agency wanted to provide an excellent communications experience for employees and clients and facilitate collaboration within distributed account teams. The challenge was to support a...
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School Connects Staff, Classrooms, and Students With Unified Communications
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
St. Saviour's School wanted to meet British curriculum requirements for students in Nigeria and improve communication between main office and classrooms. The challenge was to improve...
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Youth Center Enables Teachers and Staff to Communicate From Every Workspace
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center, named for the former United States Secretary of State, fulfills a long-time vision for the Urban Ventures Leadership Center, a nonprofit organization in...
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International Mining and Construction Gains a Competitive Advantage
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Thiess, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leighton Holdings Limited, is one of Australia's largest construction, mining, and services contractors with operations throughout Australia, New Zealand,...
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Bank Improves Customer Experience and Reduces Costs
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
A wholly owned subsidiary of New Mexico's First State Bancorporation, First Community Bank operates 64 retail branches, serving consumers and businesses in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah....
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Credit Union Evolves Its Business With Unified Communications
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Mountain America Credit Union wanted to serve current members more effectively and attract new business and utilize limited office space efficiently. The challenge was to reduce operational...
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Drug Procurement Company Provides World-Class Caller Experience
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Established in 2005, OneOncology, Inc., provides drug procurement solutions that simplify the oncology drug supply chain. OneOncology, Inc. wanted to give callers a world-class contact center...
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Family Caregivers Receive Support at Point of Care
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
University of Miami Center wanted to help family members serve as an extension of the medical system. University of Miami Center provided video-based counseling and skills training, support...
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Manufacturer Moves Ideas Instead of People
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Biesse America wanted to simplify communications among employees in three countries and reduce voice and travel costs. The challenge was to improve customer service. Biesse America replaced...
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Distributor Improves Customer Service With Faster Answers
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cross Company wanted to enhance customer service and help employees get answers more quickly. The challenge was to unify communications across 12 locations. Cross Company consolidated all branches...
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Global Manufacturer Increases Collaboration and Reduces Cost
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Voith AG is one of the best-kept secrets in the world. It comes as a surprise to most people to learn that one sheet of paper in three in the world is made on machines produced by Voith. Voith AG...
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Emerging Reseller Provides Large-Company Service
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
TBL Networks, Inc. wanted to compete against larger resellers and provide excellent customer service. The challenge was to reduce costs. TBL Networks, Inc. made employees always reachable at the...
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Software Developer Accelerates Innovation
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision, Publishing, Inc. is a leading worldwide developer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment and leisure products. Activision...
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Midwestern Health Insurance Company Builds High-Speed Network
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Priority Health is a nationally recognized health insurance company, with headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As part of its corporate goals to expand its service territory, Priority Health...
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Airport Seals Off Sensitive Information to Protect Passengers
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) is one of the busiest airports in the United States, serving more than 11.4 million passengers in 2007. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport wanted...
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Major Medical Institution Safeguards Open Academic Network
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) wanted to protect against malware in open academic environment and reduce manual administration requirements and costs. The challenge was to improve efficiency of...
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Healthcare Provider Builds Secure Network From the Ground Up
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Brooks Rehabilitation is a major provider of inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services, serving thousands of patients throughout Florida and Georgia. Brooks Rehabilitation wanted to build...
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Medical Center Boosts Security to Deliver Excellent Care
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Blessing Hospital wanted to provide stronger, more reliable protection against malicious code and network attacks and extend clinical applications and information to the bedside. The challenge was...
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Community Bank Builds Proactive Protection Against Malicious Threats
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
River City Bank wanted to protect sensitive financial data and customer information and improve visibility into real-time network security status. The challenge was to comply with strict...
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Community Bank Secures Data and Streamlines Regulatory Compliance
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Premier Valley Bank wanted to protect sensitive financial data and customer information and block Internet attacks that could compromise data and reduce network performance. The challenge was to...
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One of Nation's Most "Unwired" Campuses Blocks Malware for Wireless Users
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Trinity University wanted to reduce malware and virus infections and enforce security policies for wireless users. The challenge was to strengthen security without impeding academic freedom....
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University Improves Network Security and IT Efficiency
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
John Carroll University wanted to balance need for academic openness with need to protect information and assets and reduce virus and worm outbreaks. The challenge was to improve efficiency of IT...
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University Virtually Eliminates Infections From Internal Users
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Virginia Commonwealth University wanted to balance need for academic openness with need to protect information and assets and reduce attacks, infections, and malicious code. The challenge was to...
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Building a Secure, Reliable College Network Community
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Making higher education opportunities accessible to all citizens is a top priority for the State of Mississippi. The state's 15 community and junior colleges are dedicated to providing affordable,...
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Case Studies
Building Supplier Gains New Visibility Into Network Environment
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Pacific Coast Companies provides IT and administrative services for the Pacific Coast Building Products family of companies, one of the largest suppliers of building materials and supplies in the...
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Building a Safer, Smarter State Government
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The state of Oregon is committed to improving the quality of life for all of its citizens. The state of Oregon wanted to enhance network reliability to keep critical government services available...
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Utility Overhauls Network Defenses to Boost Control and Visibility
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation (JOEMC) wanted to protect network against malicious threats and implement tighter controls over third-party vendor access. The challenge was to...
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Law Firm Protects Confidential Client Information
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
For more than 70 years, Weltman, Weinberg & Reis (WWR) has been a leader in providing collection services and legal representation to creditors. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, WWR is the...
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Dutch Defense Ministry Improves IT Service Provision and Cuts Costs With Cisco Data Center Technology
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The DTO (Defence Telematics Organisation) wanted to increase demand from customers for more data center resources and data storage requirement increasing, sometimes a 100 percent a year. The...
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Case Studies
University Selects Director-Class Switches to Create a New Scalable SAN
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
East Carolina University wanted to establish a SAN with a high-performance, scalable director-class storage switching infrastructure to accommodate the technology demands of the university's data...
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Cisco Provides Bright Future for Hong Kong Education Sector
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) wanted to optimize application delivery for 150 application servers and increase network bandwidth to accommodate media-rich applications, mobile and...
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Naples University Set to Bring Scientific R&D to Market Faster With High Performance Computing
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Naples University wanted to maintain a reputation as a leading scientific research and development center and increase the potential to attract new funding and investment in innovation. The...
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Large Multidisciplinary University Regains Control of Desktop Applications
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Seattle University (SU) wanted to have short desktop computer lifecycles, difficult management of the desktop application environment, and high operating expenses and have inability to meet...
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Stanford University Dramatically Expands Compute Capacity
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Stanford University wanted to provide enough compute power for the in-progress and up-coming scientific research projects. and maintain Stanford's position of industry leader, which is required to...
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University Improves Data Center Services Delivery
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Part of the University of North Carolina (UNC) system, UNC Charlotte (UNCC) enrolls more than 22,300 students and 900 full-time faculty. The university expects to increase enrollment by 10,000...
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University of Salerno Builds Next Generation Data Center to Improve Education Services
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The University of Salerno, in Southern Italy, wanted to maintain a reputation for providing high quality, high performance education support services and meet the demand for more and better...
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Australia's Oldest University Aims for Excellence With New Data Center Architecture
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The University of Sydney, founded in 1850, is Australia's first university, and has an international reputation for outstanding teaching, as a center of research excellence and as an active and...
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University Selects Appliance-based Solution to Improve Web Access
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Golden Gate University wanted to have aging load-balancing solution was not meeting the growing demands of students accessing Website and multiple devices created power and cooling issues. The...
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Engineering Firm Accelerates Application Delivery to Remote Users, Increases SAN Scalability
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Michael Baker Corporation wanted to have limited bandwidth at local offices and needed increased performance for Bentley ProjectWise Content Management System over WAN. The challenge was to have...
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Cisco Data Center Strategy Improves Business Continuity for the Largest News Website in Belgium
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
De Persgroep is one of the leading media organizations in Belgium. De Persgroep wanted to manage huge fluctuations in traffic to Belgium's leading news website and other online media channels and...
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White Papers
Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Session Initiation Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
March 29, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) implementation in Cisco IOS Software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of an affected...
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The Agile Business Architecture Creating Service Provider Value Through Smart Sourcing
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The service provider industry has experienced rapid and significant transformation over the past five years as broadband has proliferated, networks have enabled ubiquitous mobility, and IP has...
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Transforming China's Electronics Industry: A Roadmap for Increasing Business Value Through Collaboration and ICT Integration
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Since the subprime mortgage crisis erupted in late 2007 in the United States, the global market for electronics products made in China has decreased significantly. The crisis also triggered...
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Enhance Business Continuance With Application Mobility Across Data Cent
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the continuing adoption of server virtualization technology, customers want to use the flexibility provided by Virtual Machines (VMs) to improve application availability. How to move...
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Next-Generation Managed Services: A Window of Opportunity for Service Providers
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Next-generation managed services provide SPs a platform on which to expand their business models to include higher-order services that achieve greater margins and realize business goals. Industry...
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Unlocking the Value of Service Provider Assets to Win the SMB Customer: SMB Connected Office and the Channel Experience
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The SMB customer, however, often is viewed as difficult to serve, with small pools of addressable spend per customer, a significant amount of vertical diversity, and often wide geographic...
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Moving From Education Systems to Learning Societies
February 18, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the future, learning will become even more important to every part of global society. Advanced skills are the foundation of the ability to innovate, to drive economic growth, to improve the...
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Virtualizing Cisco Unity Messaging on VMware ESX
April 21, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization has emerged as a leading trend in the data center. Organizations are embracing the virtualized data center for a variety of reasons, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO),...
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Cisco Open Platform for Safety and Security: Understand the Citizen-Authority Interaction Architecture Building Block
September 9, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco Open Platform for Safety and Security is an architecture framework for building solutions to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents. The framework comprises six...
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The Transformation of Education Through Collaboration
February 20, 2010, 12:00am PST
Collaboration technology supports today's global, real-time organizations and businesses with their increasing demands for global communications and interaction, allowing people to meet anytime,...
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Next-Generation Managed Services: Vodafone Adopts a New Operating Model for Service Providers
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The market for fixed and mobile voice services in the economically developed world is nearly saturated. Revenue growth is flat to negative, seriously impacting Service Provider (SP) profits. Tough...
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The Necessity of Pervasive Collaboration
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Technological innovation has dramatically altered the composition of companies, changing how business is conducted and how resources are deployed. The communications revolution has created an...
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QLogic Adapters and Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches: Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Design Guide
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper provides design guidelines for implementing a unified data center fabric using Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and QLogic second-generation Converged Network Adapters (CNAs). Unified...
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Cisco Catalyst 2960-S FlexStack: Description, Usage, and Best Practices
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cisco FlexStack stacking for Cisco Catalyst 2960-S Series Switches provides a true stacking solution with all switches in a FlexStack stack acting as a single switching unit. FlexStack provides a...
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Best Practices for Monitoring Cisco Unity Devices With Cisco Unified Operations Manager
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cisco Unified Operations Manager (OM) also provides diagnostic capabilities for faster trouble isolation and resolution. It monitors and evaluates the current status of both the IP communications...
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Cisco StackPower: Efficient Use of Power
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The benefits of the Cisco StackPower technology are immediately tangible, and so are the savings. Consider a stack of switches with each switch requiring a slightly higher power budget for some...
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IP Over DWDM: Empower Your Next-Generation Optical Network
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cisco uniquely offers routing systems as well as DWDM transport with an integrated IPoDWDM solution. With the Cisco Transport Controller and the Cisco Transport Manager, both the Cisco CRS-1 and...
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Cisco Unified IP Phone Firmware Distribution Methods
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
When Cisco started selling the Cisco IP Phone 7940 and 7960 models, the firmware needed to run the phones was relatively small (less than 1 MB). Because updated phone models with enhanced features...
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 VSS and Cisco Nexus 7000 VPC Interoperability and Best Practices
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the traditional port channel model, link aggregation was only possible to a single device. MEC and vPC are two new port channel concepts that extend link aggregation across two physical...
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family SANs Increase Cisco Unified Computing System Benefits
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The Cisco Unified Computing System offers outstanding scalability, performance, network integration, and cost effectiveness in a compute server environment. However, its integrated, heavily...
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White Papers
Why IP Is the Right Foundation for the Smart Grid
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The energy community is starting to combine Information and Communications Technology (ICT) with the electric power grid. This "Smart grid" is a data communications network integrated with the...
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Cisco Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Access Control
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The benefits of using Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions - software solutions delivered via the cloud-computing model - are clear for many organizations, and can include significant cost...
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Cisco 40-Gbps DWDM Solutions: Boost Capacity and Flexibility the Smart Way
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Exabyte Era is upon us. Cisco research indicates that the total volume of worldwide IP traffic is doubling every two years. By 2011, the world's IP networks will transport 29 exabytes of...
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Personalized Mobile Broadband: Grow Revenue With Cisco Policy and Charging Control
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The acceleration of mobile broadband adoption and proliferation of smartphones, netbooks, and other mobile Internet devices continues at a torrid pace. By 2014, there will be 5 billion wireless...
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White Papers
Optimizing Enterprise Video Over Wireless LAN
January 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
Video is marking the next evolution of business collaboration. Executive communications to employees through IPTV, on-demand playback of sales meetings or training sessions, and videoconferencing...
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Unlocking the Potential of Cloud Computing With Cisco Application Performance Management
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To meet new needs in today's challenging IT and telecommunications services marketplace, enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) alike are turning to cloud-based computing. The...
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Value of Cisco TelePresence in Strengthening Financial Supervision
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The series of G-20 Summits in 2009 revealed a welcome and promising consensus on the policies and governance structures required to reform the global banking system. Better "Macro-prudential"...
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White Papers
Service Control EasyApp - Time Shifting Traffic
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
When it comes to network congestion in service provider networks, there is a common paradox: When one looks at daily consumption, there is usually more network bandwidth available than users...
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Solace Message Routers and Cisco Ethernet Switches: Unified Infrastructure for Financial Services Middleware
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The goal of zero latency in financial services has caused the creation of entirely new industries, products, and career paths as well as volumes of data, analysis, and opinion. The degree to which...
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Using the Paessler PRTG Traffic Grapher in a Cisco Wide Area Application Services Proof of Concept
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Understanding bandwidth traffic and resource consumption is vital to enhanced and proactive network management. The ability to accurately demonstrate WAN optimization is essential to a successful...
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Cisco's Security Vision for the Borderless Enterprise Making Web 2.0 Safe for Business
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Remote and mobile working. Mobile devices with multimedia and PC-like capabilities. Internet-based collaborative work tools. Social networking, instant messaging, and Skype. Virtualization, cloud...
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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimizes Application Delivery From the Cloud
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The adoption of cloud-based computing and applications promises to improve the agility, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of IT operations required to provision, scale, and deliver applications...
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Lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet: The Unifying Infrastructure for SAN and LAN Consolidation
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As organizations increasingly rely on IT to help enable, and even change, their business strategies, they need their IT infrastructure to be more powerful, agile, and cost effective than ever....
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White Papers
Simplified Data Center Architecture to Meet Complex, Changing Business Requirements
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Enterprises have always been challenged with shifting priorities, such as the following: how to do more with less, how to reduce costs, how to pace with rapid growth, and how to remain secure and...
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Fibre Channel Over Ethernet - A Practical Alternative
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Based on comprehensive testing performed by Cisco and NetApp, this white paper explores whether Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a viable and practical alternative to current Storage Area...
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Webcasts
IR Tech Talk: Changing the Future of Networking
March 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
The webcast will introduce an innovation that will forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments and will help service providers prepare to deliver this...
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White Papers
Towards a Common TCP Evaluation Suite
December 13, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper describes a common evaluation suite for the initial evaluation of new TCP extensions. It defines a small number of evaluation scenarios, including traffic and delay distributions,...
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White Papers
On the Fair Coexistence of Loss and Delay-Based TCP
December 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Delay-based TCP variants continue to attract a large amount of attention in the networking community. Potentially, they offer the possibility to efficiently use network resources while at the same...
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White Papers
Cisco TelePresence Solutions - Collaboration for Everyone, Everywhere
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
To thrive today, you have to collaborate with colleagues, partners, and customers globally at a moment's notice. Cisco TelePresence creates a live, face-to-face communication experience that...
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White Papers
Cisco TelePresence - Complimentary Calculator and Meeting Offer
April 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Experience Cisco TelePresence for yourself and discover impressive productivity, efficiency, and collaboration advantages. Conduct a business meeting using Cisco TelePresence at a location near...
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