The National Rugby League (NRL) is the top league of professional rugby league clubs in Australia and New Zealand. With the relocation of its Sydney headquarters, they wanted to replace their aging analog phone system to support mobile workers and a new outbound call centre to drive club membership. This paper looks at how a ...

This e-book describes a hypothetical company, referred to as NeedToChange, which has a traditional approach to WAN design. It then presents Cisco’s response to how NeedToChange should evolve its WAN. This e-book includes a summary of the key components of some of the emerging approaches to WAN architecture and design and concludes with a call ...

The introduction of innovative new form factors, software infrastructure and cloud services is reshaping enterprise video collaboration. The following vendors offer potential for greater reach, scale and interoperability while addressing the most critical video use cases.

The participation of service providers in the identification of DDoS attacks can help to mitigate threats at (or very near) their point of origin. Collaboration between service providers and DDoS mitigation providers can help identify the signs of a pending DDoS attack, bringing customers closer to the ever-elusive “predictive” protections that are important for defense ...

Security analysts used to say it’s not a question of if you’ll be attacked but when. Today, the facts are even more alarming: we no longer need to wonder when your network will be targeted. Your business is under attack right now. According to the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report, threat alerts grew 14 percent ...

Historically, the speed of a wired connection at the access edge has always been faster than that of a wireless connection. This means workers had to choose between the performance of wired connectivity and the convenience of a wireless connection. Consequently, workers often had to modify the way they worked—first, finding a wired port to ...

In January 2015, Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment enterprises may realize by deploying Cisco TrustSec. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Cisco TrustSec on their organizations.

Cisco® Unified Access establishes a framework that securely, reliably, and seamlessly connects anyone, anywhere, anytime, using any device to any resource. This framework empowers all employees with advanced services, taking advantage of an intelligent, enterprise-wide network to increase revenue, productivity, and customer satisfaction while reducing operational inefficiencies across the business. Cisco Unified Access includes services-rich ...

Imagine being able to see, measure, and manage the energy usage of all the devices in your IT network. How much could you save, for example, if every server, router, switch, laptop, monitor, IP phone, wireless access point, and printer in the enterprise automatically powered up and down based on productivity?

Wi-Fi is about to get a reboot. New 802.11ac Wave 2 products will make it possible to deliver LAN-like multigigabit speeds over the wireless network for the first time, enabling previously unimagined scale and flexibility in the enterprise workspace. But how will businesses capitalize on this new capacity when most current Ethernet access cabling maxes ...