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Application and End Point Ignorant: Myth# 7 of the Good-Enough Network
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Countless science fiction books and movies, from “The Matrix” to “1984” to “2001: A Space Odyssey” feature computers and networks that are completely omniscient with the power to see and hear everything users do. While today’s networks ...
Myth # 6 of the Good-Enough Network: Acquisition Cost
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Did you know that when building an enterprise IT network, about 20% of a typical budget is spent acquiring hardware while a whopping 80% goes toward operating costs? But looking at just the acquisition costs is akin ...
Myth # 5 of the Good-Enough Network: “Basic Warranty” Myth
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Last weekend, I bought a laptop. Before I decided on which model I wanted, I visited a few vendors’ sites and looked at their warranties. Some came with a basic one-year warranty covering only manufacturer defects; others ...
Myth # 4 of the Good-Enough Network: “Just Look for Standards”
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Just 50 years ago, personal computers, corporate networks, and email didn’t exist. So sending a note meant getting out your trusty pen and paper, writing a letter, then dropping it in a mailbox and hoping it would ...
The Basic QOS Myth: Myth# 3 of the Good-Enough Network
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Video conference calls, TelePresence, and even YouTube videos were mere science fiction just a decade ago. Now, thanks to many technological advances, we can easily talk to anyone across the globe in high-definition video from the comfort ...
Security as a Bolt on: Myth # 2 of the Good-Enough Network
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Imagine that it’s a warm sunny day and you’re sitting on a glorious white-sand beach. You relax and gaze out at a group of surfers as they paddle to catch a wave. As you gaze down at ...
The Single-Purpose Network: Myth of the Good-Enough Network
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Did you know that by 2015, there will be nearly one mobile-connected device for every person on Earth? That will mean 7.2 billion people with 7.1 billion devices, according to the Connected World Report, 2010. Aside from ...
Seven Myths of the Good-Enough Network
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. True or false: Networking has come such a long way that you can buy any inexpensive equipment and cobble together an excellent business network that can handle everything you need to do. Admittedly, that’s a bit of ...