The pending acquisition of Sourcefire Inc. gives Cisco a boost in security products, but it could also be a key component of Cisco's push to make more money from services using SDN and NFV. Cisco ...

SDN, or software-defined software, is one of the latest networking strategies. Open Networking Foundation defines ''a network control plane that controls several devices and is physically separated ...

Cisco’s OpFlex protocol is intended to maintain control intelligence in the network infrastructure itself instead of centralizing it in a separate controller, which is the essence of the OpenFlow ...

With revenues declining amid product transitions and the threat of software-defined networking looming large, Cisco is simplifying its enterprise marketing model for customers. Instead of selling a ...

As solution providers see it, Cisco isn't late to the software-defined networking (SDN) game -- it's changing it. "They are changing the market completely," said Steven Reese, Chief Technology Officer ...

Cisco has been among the key evangelists of the Internet of things. Executives have been talking about it for several years, and in October the company created an IoT business unit. The growing ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Cisco is still clawing its way back to growth, but the company is encouraged by what it says are strong ...

Hewlett-Packard Monday took direct aim at rival Cisco Systems with a new campus networking switch and a new software-defined networking Network Visualizer application. HP claims that the new HP 5400R ...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is viewed as a technology that will fundamentally change how networking is approached, and as the leading networking products vendor, Cisco has more to lose than ...