Way back in the early 2000s, we noticed a trend in branch routing. Customers started asking for a “branch in a box.” The problem they were having was that the complexity of networks of the day required lots of stuff[1]. They needed separate devices f...

Presenting at Cisco Live is fun.  Actually, the weeks of work getting slides together with a Session Manager bugging you for submitting them late and doing slide reviews with brand police is not fun at all. What's really fun are the conversations tha...

In the beginning (circa 2001), mankind lived in caves and lit fires with a flint. We also built towering monuments to the gods of Information Technology. Offices, retail stores, banks, centers of commerce – anywhere that people gathered – dedicated l...

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” – AristotleYou could be excused for missing the press release from ThousandEyes earlier today. They’re an innovative young company with powerful network monitoring technology, but there are a flurry o...