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Healthcare IT Testing: A New Business Imperative for Health Systems
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The healthcare industry is at a tipping point: a large number of hospitals are IT-enabled to the point where clinical care and business operations can become severely impacted when information...
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Meet the Challenge With Cisco Unified Computing System
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco Unified Computing System is designed to meet the unique requirements of VDI deployments. The Cisco Unified Computing System is an integrated, scalable, and manageable platform in which...
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Security for the Smart Grid
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
There is no debate about the potential advantages that a smart grid can bring. The ability to bring together complex, proprietary systems onto a common, standards-based network infrastructure will...
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Cisco ANA Carrier Ethernet for Service Activation
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As converged networks become more complex, fulfillment requirements become more complex, resulting in networks that can have hundreds of routers supporting many customers with unique...
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Cisco VN-Link: Virtualization-Aware Networking
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Until recently, data center networks were designed under the safe assumption that each end node was connected to the access port of an end-of-row switch in the network and it corresponded to one...
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Cisco Storage Media Encryption Key Migration From Cisco Key Management Center to RSA Key Manager
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME) provides encryption of data at rest for tape drives and virtual tape libraries. The integrated Cisco Key Manager Center (KMC) offers a basic set of key...
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Online Privacy - How to Protect Yourself and Your Family
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper will help one make an informed decision about this balance between privacy and personalization, a topic that is very much a part of enabling the Human Network. Websites gain trust by...
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Synchronous Ethernet: Achieving High-Quality Frequency Distribution in Ethernet NGNs
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the world rapidly transitioning to IP/MPLS-based NGNs with Ethernet as the transport medium of choice, there is an increasing need to enhance services and capabilities while still leveraging...
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Cisco Virtual Office: Secure Services Client
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This white paper provides detailed design and implementation information relating to deployment of Cisco Secure Services Client (SSC) with the Cisco Virtual Office. Cisco Virtual Office can be...
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The Virtual Machine Aware SAN
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization of the data center, which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and...
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P3 Healthcare ICT Investment Model : A How-To Guide for Executives and Healthcare Boards
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Every day, all over the world, health departments, hospital boards, CEOs, and healthcare investment bodies make decisions about healthcare funding. Most view healthcare Information and...
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Connected Healthcare Consumers: Engaging Empowered Consumers in a Connected Health Partnership
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is a powerful, yet overlooked, opportunity to engage consumers in a "Connected Health" partnership. In a Connected Health relationship, consumers collaborate with their healthcare providers...
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Presence: Empowering Customer Care
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This white paper, intended for business decision makers, describes how organizations and businesses can harness the power of presence to improve their customer care. Scenarios like these are...
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FWSM4.0(4): Virtual Switching System (VSS) Integration
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
One of the main objectives of FWSM 4.0 is to provide close integration and collaboration between FWSM and other Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch services. This paper provides technical details...
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Data Leakage Worldwide: The Effectiveness of Security Policies
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Every corporate culture is different, and there is no one right way to create and enforce security policies. But each company must find a way to make its security policy strategy effective, or...
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An Architectural Approach to Responsive Manufacturing
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The portfolio of Cisco Connected Manufacturing solutions helps address many of the key operational issues faced by manufacturers today. Starting with a robust foundation of wired infrastructure...
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Operational Efficiency on Cisco Catalyst Switches
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cisco Catalyst switches include a number of technological capabilities that can help improve the operational efficiency of the organization's network. Investment protection is an important part of...
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Environmental Sustainability in the Public Sector: Take Advantage of the Network
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The IP network can significantly enhance environmental sustainability in government and education. Progress has been hampered by murky definitions and confusion about priorities. Is the main goal...
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Video Distribution Strategies in a Broadband-Centric Future
December 3, 2008, 12:00am PST
Service Providers (SPs) have a tremendous amount of opportunity in a broadband-centric universe. There are at least three potential revenue streams: subscription services, advertising and...
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Cisco ASR 9000 Network and Service Management
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ASR 9000 network and service management solution provides operational excellence using the Cisco IOS XR System Management Framework and an open, extensible Network Management System (NMS) and...
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Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch Performance in Market-Data and Back-Office Data Delivery Environments
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In the capital markets industry today, significant growth in the levels of data traffic for pre- and post-trade information processing has become the norm. Addressing this continued and...
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Smart Grid: The Role of Electricity Infrastructure in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A Smart Grid can reduce the amount of electricity consumed by homes and buildings, significantly reduce peak demand, and accelerate adoption of distributed, renewable energy sources - all while...
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Architecting the Collaborative Customer Experience
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The portfolio of Cisco Collaborative Customer Experience solutions helps address many of the key issues faced by retail banks today in providing a customer experience that creates competitive...
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Cisco Mobile Network Solutions for Commercial Transit Agencies
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Cisco Outdoor Wireless Network Solution architecture addresses many of the communications challenges facing transit agencies today. The Cisco 3200 provides a secure network platform for the...
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Application Control: Using Zone-Based Firewall to Control Instant Messaging and Peer-to-Peer Applications
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications are two of the most widely used applications on the Internet. Most organizations view these applications as frivolous ways to consume expensive...
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Using Cisco NAM Reporting With Cisco WAAS
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper describe the NAM 4.0 reports that can be leveraged for WAAS deployments. This whitepaper is intended for the use of Cisco NAM and Cisco WAAS field. Readers are assumed to be generally...
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Cisco Media-Optimized Technologies for the Medianet Age: Accelerating the Transformation From Service Provider to Experience Provider
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper highlights the extraordinary capabilities and efficiencies that service providers can realize using medianet-optimized Cisco technologies. With Cisco solutions, service providers can...
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Cisco Network Fabric: Expect More, Get More, Save More
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
When most network managers hear the word virtualization, they immediately think of the data center. There is a tremendous need for virtualization in most data centers. By virtualizing servers and...
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Bright House Networks and Cisco: A Successful Approach to Tru2way Implementation for Cable MSOs
March 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Bright House Networks is a US-based cable operation with multiple systems located across the country. It has been quick to embrace advanced technologies, successfully positioning itself as a...
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Leveraging Oracle Consulting to Implement Identity Management at Cisco
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
With a strong partnership, Oracle and Cisco successfully collaborated in meeting the key objectives of the program in addressing Cisco's key IdM challenges. As a result, Cisco has achieved its...
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Collaboration Services Rising: Managed Service Partners Are in Demand as Collaboration Needs Grow and New Tools Deliver Deeper Impact Across the Enterprise and With Customers and Partners
May 5, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Collaboration solutions are quickly becoming embedded in enterprise environments, spurring a new outlook on how to extend their utility to make a greater impact on the organization. Such solutions...
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Preparing Networks to Support the TIC Initiative
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cisco has proven deployed solutions available to address the architectural challenges. U.S.government agencies can receive support from Cisco in the planning, testing, and deployment a...
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Dual-Mode Phones: A Smart Call for Higher Education
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the viability of using dual-mode phones in higher education by reviewing a pilot conducted at Bryant University in Rhode Island. The pilot was conducted in collaboration with...
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Smart Grid: Transforming the Electricity System to Meet Future Demand and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Rising fuel costs, underinvestment in an aging infrastructure, and climate change are all converging to create a turbulent period for the electrical power-generation industry. To make matters...
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Service-Oriented Architecture: Transforming Commerce and Unifying the Customer Ordering Experience
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Cisco Commerce Transformation is a significant step forward in the journey to a unified ordering experience. By using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and a services-based approach to...
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A Compelling IP Backhaul Alternative for Mobile Operators Confronting Increasing Volumes of High Speed Packet Access Traffic
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the dramatic and continuing increase in data traffic within mobile service provider networks - specifically traffic based on HSPA and associated standards - and presents a...
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Radio Aware Routing: Enabling Communications on the Move
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Relief workers, soldiers, public safety personnel, and others need the right information, in the right place, at the right time, wherever they are located. Mobile ad hoc networks are emerging to...
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Realizing the Potential of the Connected Republic: Web 2.0 Opportunities in the Public Sector
March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Many innovative public sector organizations are embracing social media to establish new communication channels with citizens and to involve them more in public decisions. There is an opportunity,...
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What Is a Medianet?
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
A medianet is a network optimized for rich media - not only voice and video, but the mixing together of videos and documents, webpages, text, and many other forms of media. The applications must...
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Rack-Level I/O Consolidation With Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Best practices for I/O connectivity in today's data centers configure each server with redundant connections to each of two networks: two or more Ethernet network interfaces connect to IP...
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Enterprise Data Center Topology
September 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A typical large enterprise network often consists of multiple data centers, each with a responsibility for supporting key functions. In general, these data centers can be classified into three...
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Guidelines for Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Implementation: A Control Engineer's Guide
July 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As part of a continuing effort to make their organizations more efficient and flexible, manufacturers are rapidly migrating to Industrial Ethernet technology to network their industrial automation...
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Casting a Ray of Sunshine on Cloud Computing
October 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There are a number of considerations executives at large enterprises need to know about cloud services, and what actions they should take today and plan for tomorrow so that they do not miss...
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Pervasive Security Answers Cloud Computing Worries
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Security tops IT executives' concerns about cloud computing, according to a survey of 700 customers recently conducted by Cisco. Further, within the 2010 Information Systems Audit and Control...
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Cloud: Powered by the Network What a Business Leader Must Know
June 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud is a new computing paradigm. In Cloud, IT resources and services are abstracted from the underlying infrastructure and provided on-demand and at scale in a multi-tenant environment. Cloud...
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Network Virtualization-Path Isolation Design Guide
February 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
Network virtualization provides multiple solutions to business problems and drivers that range from simple to complex. Simple scenarios include enterprises that want to provide Internet access to...
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Cloud Computing Overlay For Unified Service Delivery: Delivering Infrastructure-As-A-Service
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A top priority for many service providers today is entering the market for cloud computing services. A number of service providers are starting with "Infrastructure-as-a-Service" (IaaS) offerings...
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Virtualization, Isolation and Encryption of IP Video Surveillance
June 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper demonstrates how to secure and logically separate an enterprise network to support IP Video Surveillance. The design described in this paper implements the concepts of virtualization,...
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Cloud: Powered by the Network - What a Business Leader Must Know
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud is a new computing paradigm that opens the door to bold new possibilities. In Cloud, IT resources and services are abstracted from the underlying infrastructure and provided on-demand and at...
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Harnessing The Power Of 'Green IT' To Speed Business Transformation
January 23, 2009, 12:00am PST
In tough economic times, many companies may feel tempted to put environmental sustainability and 'Green IT' issues aside. Financial pressure and deep cost-cutting dominate the corporate agenda....
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The Shift to Cloud Computing: Forget the Technology, It's About Economics
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing is hailed as the next big thing in IT, and a great deal of attention has focused on cloud technology. But technology is not the primary impetus to shift from traditional,...
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Desktop Virtualization: New Business Opportunities With Cost-Effective, Flexible Desktops As A Service
November 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Service providers and enterprises today are working to reach a shared goal: how to better serve global customers. In fact, service providers, because of their networking, billing, and services...
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Realizing the Benefits Of Virtualization
November 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Virtualization has improved business agility. "The Cisco Nexus solution means that we can respond much faster to the needs of our customers," says Vassalli. As a result, the customer can now be...
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Cisco Unified Computing System Integration With Oracle e-Business Suite R12
October 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Oracle E-Business Suite running on the Cisco Unified Computing System will unite computing, network, storage access, and virtualization resources into a cohesive system. The Cisco Unified...
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Virtuelle Mobilität statt Ortswechsel
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Das Krisenjahr 2009 hat das Verhältnis der Unternehmen zu Geschäftreisen nachhaltig verändert. Für operative Aufgaben macht die virtuelle Collaboration eine physische Ortsverän-derung weitgehend...
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Online-Meetings statt Flugreisen
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Bei der Planung und Durchführung von internationalen IT-Projekten greifen die SOS-Kinderdörfer schon seit längerem auf Online-Meetings mit Cisco WebEx zurück. Mittlerweile hat sich diese...
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Virtuelle Communities für Good Governance
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Der berufsbegleitende Studiengang "Master of Public Policy", den die HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA School of Governance anbietet, findet nicht nur vor Ort sondern auch im Netz statt. Die Studierenden und die...
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Abschied vom Büroschreibtisch
January 6, 2011, 12:00am PST
Die Arbeitswelt verändert sich und herkömmliche Modelle der Organisation von Arbeitszeit und Arbeitsort können neue Anforderungen nicht mehr abdecken. Das Konzept des ""Smart Working"" löst die...
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Podcasts
Cisco Cloud News: Get it "To Go"
December 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
What are the top revenue-producing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings today? What are buyers looking for in a cloud services provider? How can you improve application performance over...
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Webcasts
Companies Look to the Clouds for Collaboration
December 9, 2010, 12:00am PST
Business leaders and IT departments are under pressure to provide innovative tools and capabilities to users they serve during a time of shrinking budgets and limited resources. Cloud-based...
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Cisco IOS VPDN Configuration Guide
August 19, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes the objectives, audience, conventions, and organization used in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE software paper, collectively referred to in this paper as Cisco IOS paper. Also...
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CISCO UNIFIED CALLMANAGER 5.1 TCP and UDP PORT USAGE
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper provides a list of the TCP and UDP ports that Cisco Unified CallManager 5.1 uses for intracluster connections and for communications with external applications or devices. It provides...
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Scalable Multicast Routing for Ad Hoc Networks
May 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Routing in a mobile ad hoc network is challenging because nodes can move at any time, invalidating a previously discovered route. Multicast routing is even more challenging, because a source needs...
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Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
One of the challenges in research on multimedia is the confound that occurs when the media and the pedagogy are not defined separately. A recent meta-analysis in which over 650 empirical studies...
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Cisco Prisma D-PON: Your DOCSIS-Based Fiber-to-the Home Solution
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Today consumers live in a brave new world of media technology. They channel surf program guides, not channels; they pause, rewind, and fast forward live television; they digitally record their...
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Cloud Computing for Financial Markets
February 12, 2009, 12:00am PST
Enterprise IT is changing in the way that applications, information, content, compute, storage, and network is deployed and consumed. The move is toward the service delivery of IT through cloud...
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Why WebEx? Discover the Beneits of Real-Time Web Collaboration in Your Organization
October 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The global economy requires new ways of doing business. It simply is not feasible to travel to all locations to meet prospects, customers, and colleagues. It's inefficient, too expensive, and...
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Sample Executive Summary from a Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture Workshop
February 26, 2007, 12:00am PST
This whitepaper offers an in-depth study of the Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) wokshop and the real-world problems faced by the customer. Although the authors have found that...
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Case Studies
University of Wyoming Built a State-of-the-Art Data Center Using Nexus and Catalyst, Switches
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The University of Wyoming offers undergraduate and graduate education, research, and outreach services. The University wanted to accommodate more data center users, applications and also wanted to...
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Cloud-Ready WAN Optimization
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Is your organization exploring WAN Optimization services as a value-added and differentiated service offering? Learn how WAN optimization reduces bandwidth costs while delivering optimal user...
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What IT Decision Makers want in a Cloud Services Provider
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Service Provider Practice of the Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) recently conducted one-on-one interviews with more than 80 enterprise IT decision makers (CIOs, CTOs, and...
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Basic Network Design
July 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The main function of the manufacturing zone is to isolate critical services and applications that are important for the proper functioning of the production floor control systems from the...
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Unified Communications: IP Networks, Connecting People Anytime, Anywhere.
May 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Business communications in today's work culture is having a significant impact on how companies and people operate. People want information right now, want to share complex applications to...
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Security Considerations White Paper for Cisco Smart Storage
June 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) is a relatively simple and inexpensive way to provide file-based data storage services to other devices on the network. NAS can also be used to host web server, and...
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Network-Based Collaboration Tools for Government: Assessing the ROI
December 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Information sharing within and between agencies is essential for effective government. But empowering employees in different locations to collaborate has been an elusive goal. "Until recently,...
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Advanced Security Management in Metro Ethernet Networks
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
With the rapid increase in bandwidth and the introduction of advanced IP services including voice, high-speed internet access, and video/IPTV, consumers are more vulnerable to malicious users than...
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Cisco Unified Communications: New Deployment Models for Communications and Collaboration
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
According to a new survey by Forrester Research, 7 out of 10 enterprises are investing in collaboration solutions1 like unified communications. A majority of these organizations will outsource...
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IP for Smart Objects: Internet Protocol for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Smart objects are small computers with a sensor or actuator and a communication device, embedded in objects such as thermometers, car engines, light switches, and industry machinery. Smart objects...
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Using Cisco NAM Hardware in a WAAS Deployment: Deployment Guide
April 8, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) is a powerful application acceleration and WAN optimization solution that optimizes the performance of TCP-based applications operating in a WAN...
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Exploring Two-Sided Business Models for Service Providers: Creating Profitability Through Innovation
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The global service provider industry has experienced wave after wave of disruption, from the convergence of voice, data, and video, to the current explosion of digital media, which is devouring...
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