Executive's keynote highlights initiatives to "transform" networking
HP’s Marius Haas used his Interop keynote address to push his company’s transformative networking and IT capabilities. Cisco did the same when it was its turn.
Keynoter Brett Galloway, senior vice president of Cisco’s wireless, security and routing group, said the company’s Borderless Networks strategy has the potential to transform the way companies collaborate and react to business change. Borderless Networks is Cisco’s access-anything-anywhere initiative and the umbrella marketing theme for its new enterprise products.
Comparing what’s available today vs. what was innovative 16 years ago at Interop, Galloway said we take much for granted in our new Internet-enabled, mobile world. He said we could not conceive back then what we can do now – and that much of the innovation is available at our homes and not at our workplace.
With that, he gave a demonstration of Cisco Virtual Office and its ability to deliver “seamless” mobility between smartphones and laptops while an employee is working from home.
Galloway and an associate also demonstrated Cisco’s new CleanAir RF interference avoidance products for wireless networks. CleanAir-enabled access points and Cisco’s Wireless Control System Navigator application (WCS) show what’s happening in the RF environment around the WLAN and how to mitigate potential interference from appliances like cordless phones and microwave ovens. WCS helps pinpoint where those interference sources actually are.
Borderless Networks and CleanAir can make companies and their workers more nimble, Galloway claimed.
“Companies must be prepared to react quickly with the accelerating change in business,” he said.
With transformative technology we couldn’t envision at Interop 16 years ago, but will take for granted soon after we have it.
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