Network management has been a source of frustration for Cisco for years. CEO John Chambers annually seems to lament the state of Cisco network management (compare LAN/WAN management tools) when he’s ...

Cisco last month gave customers a sneak peek at a new network management tool for deploying multiple network functions on the Catalyst 6500 platform. Cisco last month gave customers a sneak peek at a ...

Cisco Live There’s light at the end of the tunnel for netadmins tired of juggling multiple management consoles: Cisco announced it’s testing a tool called Cloud Control that will drive all its ...

There hasn’t been much differentiation among the services available from providers with Multi-protocol Label Switching networks yet. One reason is that the operations, administration and maintenance ...

Boston journalist J.D. Sartain freelances for several magazines and newspapers across the globe. Gartner predicts that by 2018, bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and similar programs will double, and ...

Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held Truviso, Inc. Based in Foster City, Calif., Truviso provides scalable, real-time network data analysis and reporting software. The companies' ...

A big network is a complex system that generates a very large volume of data: log messages, network state data, device state data, device configurations, interface performance data, and application ...