In a business environment dominated by cloud computing, mobility and Web-based applications, enterprises need smarter, application-aware networks to ensure performance. But while application awareness ...

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Engineer, entrepreneur and inventor Bob Metcalfe once described how the value of a network grew as the number of Ethernet cards increased. The concept also works for applications. While the cost of a ...

Cisco Systems Inc. has today launched Application Oriented Networking, or AON, which Cisco claims will make computer networks smarter, faster and more secure. It does this, apparently, by making the ...

We are fortunate to live in an exciting time where multiple technological leaps are occurring. Specifically, I am thinking of the mobile industry transition from 4G to 5G, and the cross-industry IT ...

The folks behind the iKOOLCORE line of mini PCs have been selling a line of palm-sized computers designed for networking applications (such as firewalls, servers, or gateways) since early 2023. Now ...

Legacy networking approaches don’t align with the way that cloud providers create services or access and only introduce more complexity. Move to the cloud, but leave your traditional networking behind ...