The Next Generation Data Centre Network – Where We’re Going

For over 20 years, network designers and administrators have been assembling networks that, more or less, look like the diagram below. You have workgroup or top of rack (ToR)/end of rack (EoR) switches at the “Access Tier,” aggregation or core switches in the “Distribution Tier,” and then core switches that connect it all together. If … Read more

Cisco Dumps Flip, Begins Re-Focus

Recently, a letter to Cisco employees, written by Cisco CEO John Chambers himself, was released to the public. In the letter, Mr. Chambers talks about how Cisco’s strategy has been, and continues to be, sound. Cisco’s operational execution on that strategy is where it has lost its way, according to Chambers. So Cisco is dumping the Flip digital … Read more