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CISCO MERAKI Company Profile Project Report
Bhavik N. Patel, Dionne Barretto, Mark Cavanaugh, Max Greenberg
Abstract Company Profile project is an attempt to analyze technology, products, services, management and financial position of a public corporation involved in the enterprise wireless industry. The
report specifically targets Cisco-Meraki for evaluation for the above specified parameters.
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Company Histories Cisco Systems is a multinational company that designs, manufactures, and distributes networking techn
ologies. The company was started in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University an
d its name was derived from the city in which the company was founded, San Francisco.
The company received its first venture capital investment of $2.5 million from Sequoia Capital in 1987 a
nd went public in 1990. That initial investment by Sequoia for $2.5 million in exchange for a 32% stake in
Cisco was worth about $225 million when the company first debuted on the NASDAQ only three short ye
ars later.
While Cisco was not the first to develop dedicated networking devices, it was one of the first companies
to create and sell commercial routers that supported multiple protocols simultaneously. Cisco’s first pro
duct lines were successful because they were CPUbased hardware coupled with an operating system th
at allowed for frequent software upgrades in order to keep up with everchanging technology needs. W
hile the Internet’s growth changed the telecommunications landscape in the mid 1990s, the Internet Pro
tocol (IP) was widely adopted, making Cisco’s other supported protocols, such as Token Ring, less import
ant. Though, as the Internet grew, the architecture and Service Provider landscape changed as well and s
olidified Cisco’s importance and dominance in the market.
Much like its parent company, Meraki was also a startup founded in 2006 in San Francisco by a group of
MIT PhD candidates. Meraki was a company who provided scalable, distributed wired and
wireless networking solutions and, like Cisco, Sequoia Capital also first funded it.
In 2012, Cisco announced its official plan to acquire Meraki and its 330 employees for an estimated $1.2
billion. This acquisition was a part of Cisco’s plan to expand its scalable, cloudbased solutions and boost
its midmarket business offerings.
Meraki’s product line is focused around cloudbased networking. This type of networking eliminates the
need for central WiFi controllers and many kinds of hardware that Cisco might have provided to the buy
er otherwise. The Meraki line allows the IT managers to provision and manage all of the necessary WiFi
hardware through one, cloudbased platform. Then, all the user needs to do is plug in the AP. For Cisco,
a company that has much of its value in centralized networking, Meraki fills the distributed network gap.
Company Management Sanjit Biswas was the cofounder and former CEO of Meraki. He received hisbachelor’s degree in comput
er science and electrical engineering from Stanford as well as his master’s in computer science from MIT
. He now serves as the Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Cloud Networking Group. Sanjit ha
s received multiple awards for his research on network computing and recognized as a TR35 honoree by
the MIT Technology Review
John Bicket was the other co-founder and CTO of Meraki. Since being acquired by Cisco, he has become
the Vice President of Engineering in the Cloud Networking Group. As a Master’s and PhD student at MIT,
he wrote extensively about wireless mesh networks and even won the Best Paper Award for his
authoring the paper entitled Architecture and Evaluation of an Unplanned 802.11b Mesh Network. His
focus at Meraki, much like the paper, was to allow people to deploy cloud-managed wireless networks
with little to no planning or operational management.
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John Chambers has served as the CEO of Cisco since 1995 and the Chairman of the board since 2006.
Though he briefly attended Duke University’s School of Engineering, he went on to gain his MBA from
Indiana University. He has always held a career in technology starting with his technology sales role at
IBM. He went on to work for Wang Laboratories and moved to Cisco in 1991, just after the IPO in 1990.
Since he joined the company, Cisco has seen a growth in annual revenue from $70 million to its current
$48.6 billion and currently has 75,136 employees.
Frank Calderoni has been Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer of Cisco since 2008. From his
background, it is very clear that Mr. Calderoni has a strong grasp of financial management. Prior to
joining Cisco in 2004, he spent 21 years holding various CFO responsibilities at IBM, was the CFO and
Vice President at QLogic Corporation, and the CFO of SanDisk. He received his B.S. in Finance and
Accounting from Fordham University and his MBA from Pace University.
Blair Christie became the senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer at Cisco in 2011 after having been with
the company for over 10 years prior. Her responsibilities span all of Cisco’s global marketing efforts,
corporate communications, and government relations. The company decided to harmonize all three of
those efforts in order to take a more “holistic” approach to their brand strategy in 2011. Before joining
Cisco, she held various roles in public relations, government affairs, investor relations, and corporate
giving at PECO Energy, Aqua America, and InterDigital Communications—a company that focuses on
wireless technologies. She received her B.S and MBA in Business Administration from Drexel University.
Rebecca Jacoby is a Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Cisco and has been with the
company since 1995 where she has held various positions in operations, manufacturing, and now, IT.
After receiving her bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of the Pacific and an MBA from
Santa Clara University, she held various similar positions in Silicon Valley based organizations. Having
previously served as Cisco’s Vice President of Customer Operations, Jacoby has played a huge role in
making Cisco’s IT department a strategic business partner for producing value in customer satisfaction,
financial performance, and overall company productivity.
Cisco Meraki Products Even though Meraki merged with cisco, the product line of both of these firms fairly remained distinct.
Cisco has been having its own line of products as before and Meraki sustained its products too as
before. However, both of these suit of products were fairly similar and can be categorized as:
Cisco: While Cisco has been a long known name in the field of networking field, it has an extensive range of
products, solutions and services in all fields of networking which would be hard to mention all in this
paper. However, it has also been providing wireless products which includes:
Access Points Cisco provides access points of the category Aironet, which provides solutions for both indoor and
outdoor wireless environment and out of devices only 2700 and 3700 AP series provide 802.11ac
support. However, the rest access points support 802.11n technology and are state of the art products
supporting “Cisco CleanAir Express” technology.
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Mobility Services and Management Cisco provides a wide range of service and management products which include:
Mobile Workspace Solution
Enterprise Mobility Services Platform
Connected Mobile Experiences
Mobility Services Engine
Cisco Prime Infrastructure
All of these products designed for the network administrators to control and manage users and their
devices across the network to provide a hassle free administrator and control.
Wireless LAN Controllers Cisco provides a huge range of wireless controllers for the deployment of network and includes
8500/5760/5500 series of latest controllers to provide complex deployment solution products for highly
skilled network administrators to control specific requirements of the network and deploy such
demands using these solutions.
Cisco Meraki Cloud Managed Wireless These products include simplified solutions for network deployments across networks mean one place-
manage all cloud solutions. These products are designed for specifics of network such as networks that
are spread across various locations, provide a solution for management of network even at application
and user level and others like ease of deployment and use.
Outdoor Wireless Access Points These are access point intended for specific outdoor deployment requirement for campus wide wireless
connectivity to provide network access not only inside buildings but also out in open with low amount of
reflections and unbounded spaces.
However, the latest products delivered by Cisco are from the category of Cisco-Meraki cloud products
which are described in the next segment of the paper.
Cisco Meraki Cloud Managed Wireless:
Wireless LAN Meraki specifically targets its various access points in this category which can provide cloud
management services. The area they specifically stress about are performance, dedicated security radio,
management of users and services at almost all levels of TCP/IP layer, the cloud based management of
network and ease to use 4 step deployment which can be summarized as:
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1. Configure wireless network settings in
dashboard
2. Mount and plug in access point
3. APs automatically pull configurations
from the cloud
4. APs self-optimize RF for peak
performance
They also highlight the mobile app to monitor
these devices and automatic upgrades which
make the products up-to date for deployment
in real time.
Security Applications The next important thing Meraki concentrates on is cloud managed security applications to be deployed
on the wireless network. Since the devices are managed across the cloud, management of security can
be performed for multiple/all sites by any network administrator from any location for delivering
flexibility and control of management from any place on the globe. Other features include:
Auto VPN for site-to-site VPN connections to provide a secure tunneling access across networks
providing high security configuration as default.
Application-aware firewall to provide security even at application layer without any complex
configuration.
WAN (Wide Area Network) optimization technique to provide LAN (Local Area Network) like
connectivity even on WAN.
Control over Applications, users ad devices to provide total control over the complete network
all at once.
Control Filtering to block/allow categories of content to be flowing in or out of the network
Smart Link Bonding to provide a complete connectivity solutions for various internet backbones
to be utilized for flow of traffic outside the networks.
Bonjour Gateway to provide Media content forwarding across the network for ease of use QoS
on the network.
Switches Meraki provides its cloud managed Switches set of devices which can be used to deliver the switching
requirement of the network using latest PoE+ technology. The features provided by Meraki products
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include:
Central Management from cloud to provide complete control of all local and remote devices not
accessible physically.
Virtual stacking which allows all the devices spread across various geographical locations to be
configured all at once without the complexity of traditional CLI configuration to be made
individually across all the devices in the network.
Layer 7 application and client visibility to monitor the traffic over the network to identify and
monitor each individual device across the complete network.
QoS for voice and video to control the priority of traffic managed from one single point for the
complete network.
PoE and PoE+ to not only power devices connected access point devices but also monitor such
device power consumption. With delivery of over 30W per port these switches have a total
budget of 740W.
Mobile Device Management (MDM) Meraki also supports Mobile Device Management services to control Mobile Devices Connected to the
network. This variety of services include:
Remote Deployment of Software and apps to install applications on variety of operating systems
including iOS, Android, MAC and Windows for free and paid enterprise apps deployment.
Enforcing restrictions and deploying network settings to develop a unified system for advanced
features like deleting enterprise data from lost or stolen devices.
Meraki supports Asset and Inventory Management to track laptops and mobile devices
anywhere in the world, and even monitor the softwares and apps installed on such devices.
The products can also deliver enterprise connectivity in order to provide configuration for
wireless network connectivity, VPN, exchange email service right from systems Manager to
reduce hazel to configure such on each mobile device individually.
Rapid Provisioning of devices can be done by downloading the MDM app from the respective
store and assigning it to a user to be managed via active directory of the network for complete
control of the device.
Other services like remote troubleshooting & live tools make Meraki products as one of its only
kind Networking vendor to provide such a complete and efficient suit of products
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CISCO’s Documentation After much insight about Cisco’s company overview, products, an analysis of these products in
the form of the supporting documentations, and posts published with reference to the working of
the same is an important aspect of consideration. Though one of the major areas of concentration
of Cisco lies in fabrication, testing and deployment; a detailed analysis of the same too provides
a cutting edge advantage to not just the company but the environment at large. It helps the
company in a way by which it can formulate its short comings and make revisions based on
discussions and test runs carried out. Some of the most commonly found documentation which
vaguely seems quite confusing at first glance is what constitutes the matter of my discussion.
(DataMonitor) (CISCO OFFICIAL WEB PAGE)
To start with: (CISCO Downloadable Documentation)
User Manual Guides – These are nothing but technical communication documents that
provide assistance to people who use specific equipment.
Lab Guides – These are similar to tutorials with step by step guidance that may be used to
run software and PC aspects of the equipment.
Student Guides: These are simpler, edited guides that contain only relevant information
required for basic setups.
Expert Structuring Guides: These are carefully articulated guides that are written only
after a lot of research by experts. They talk about the possible implementations which
could not have easily been thought of.
Advanced Design Manuals: These talk about the specifications of the design particulars
of the equipment.
Troubleshooting Handbooks: These cite the various common problems or challenges
faced – in addition to providing solutions that were tested and helped.
Implementations Manuals: These may be considered as project guide for budding
engineers who may be enthusiastic in implementing equipment in different possible
ways.
Configuration Manuals: These are most commonly found simple configuration texts.
All of the above mentioned forms of documentation are quite commonly found in hard copy
formats in addition to .pdf (software) versions that can be easily downloaded and accessed.
Besides these some of the other common online help documentation that may be found
specifically on CISCO’s company websites include: (CISCO HELP DOCUMENTATION)
• Bug Search Tools: This is a very easy to use convenient tool whereby bugs that crop up
during any stage of implementation of testing can be looked up online directly by simply
type-entering the exact error message that has been encountered.
• DocWiki: This is a copyright version of CISCO which could quite similarly be compared
to an open sourced Wikipedia help site.
• Icon Library: This is one of the most recent additions to CISCO’s documentation
database collection. This functionality provides quick and instant look ups of products in
detail, by simply providing the image format (icon of product) as an input parameter. One
of the striking features of this kind of help documentation is the content precise
structuring which relates every aspect of information of the product, right from help for
implementation to the problems faced to probable solution recommendations.
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• Idea Forums: This is a distinctive forum that allows idea inputs from researchers, young
tech savvy enthusiast’s world over.
• International Websites: This is the basic web page that provides the latest and greatest
news and updates.
• Discussion Blogs: This is a very productive form of help CISCO provides where
Technical writers pen down thoughts, assumptions, and researched results in detail. A
key feature of consideration with discussion blogs is the discussions that follow post the
blog paste.
• Demonstration Videos: These are effective demonstration videos that may be easily
accessed on wither CISCO’s website or simply Google on YouTube.
• SWOT Analysis: This is a documentation that is constantly updated depending on results
achieved from projects. The four main areas that define the company profile depend on
Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats faced. An in depth analysis on this
discussed in the sections to follow. (CISCO OFFICIAL WEB PAGE)
• White Papers: These are highly beneficial documentations that talk in length about every
aspect of product detail, environment in which it was tested, the test and lastly the result
drawn conclusion with a little insight on the scope of improvement. (CISCO)
The areas covered under the white paper section can be quite distinctively categorized as
follows:
Figure 1: (CISCO)
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Within the scope of this Company Profile Report, though it was not possible to cover every
white paper research, some of the white papers I did focus and take time to study included papers
on:
Business Consulting: These papers talk about the improvement of the organizations
performance, analysis of existing problems and the plans of how to implement
improvements. (CISCO)
Design Consulting: The primary focus of this topic dealing paper talks of the
improvements in the designing considerations of the equipment. The faults found the
improvements that need to be made for redesign.
Product related services: Many papers relevant to this area concentrate on the different
services the product offers.
System Integration: These are detailed, researched discussion papers of how different
products can be integrated to work in coexistence.
Custom Development: Traditional methods of implementation, how they can be modified
and more importantly why they should be implemented are clearly the focus of
discussion in this category of white papers.
Outsourced Operations: A very few white papers talk about the projects and results
researched upon in collaboration with network service companies and other smaller joint
ventures.
Hosted Managed Services: Testing’s where a clear Cisco product environment was used
for testing contribute to some of CISCO’s papers of discussion.
Owing to the size of the database with a plethora of white papers written by CISCO, and others
by young aspiring tech savvy enthusiasts, engineers and researchers, there is a lot of scope of
discussion and in detail description of as to what is contained in the white papers published. Over
the course of summer break, I plan to document a compressed summary of all these papers. Until
then, a brief understanding of the content of the other sections and categories of CISCO white
paper discussions may be assumed self-explanatory. (CISCO)
Some of the commonly cited areas of testing involved the use of Cisco MDS switches and core
routers that were used for common testing in the Data Centers and Network System
environments. Majority number of white papers and journal article discussions and blogs focus
around Cisco’s strengths- Mobility and Security. Two of the recent projects under way are Tele
Presence and 6net. (6Net) (Cisco TelePresence) (CISCO TelePresence)
Tele Presence is a project which has gained much recognition in smaller environments. However
as per the most recent release, CISCO claims to redefine the phase of telecommunications by
taking Project Tele Presence to a whole new level. As can be seen, some of the highlights in the
scope of implementation of this project include Travel Reduction, Maximizing employee
productivity in addition to creating newer business models thereby developing continuity in the
sense of business at an affordable price.
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Figure 2 (CISCO TelePresence)
6Net is another new big project CISCO has set foot into to create an environment capable in
supporting a capacity based on the growing user demands with specific accommodation for fast,
reliable and secure internet connectivity. (6Net)
Both these projects are hand in hand being researched alongside the implementation of creating
an Internet Backbone whereby a very dynamically closely meshed and connected smarter world
is in developmental stages. (CISCO)
The Internet Backbone
Figure 3 (IOT trends CISCO)
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As can be seen, CISCO plans to implement this big project in phases of deployment by using as many
switches and routers self-fabricated by CISCO and its converged sister companies.
In the view of a complete Company Profile Analysis, it would be wrong to miss out the last but one of
the most important considerations of an ever changing piece of documentation- THE SWOT ANALYSIS.
Figure 4
In conclusion, the chart documents the areas of description when it comes to Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats in the interest of CISCO with an in depth analysis of
every aspect pertaining to all departments involved be it manufacturing, sales, research or for
that matter pricing. Every contributor (in the smallest way possible or associated to a project or
involved in its implementation or testing) is assessed and then a 4 point evaluation
documentation is chartered to quite simply learn of most striking key distinctions of the
highlights touched, the areas of potential improvement, a detailed relation that links the
implementation to the user demand, and lastly the hard to implement scopes of improvement, the
challenges that will be faced etc. (CISCO OFFICIAL WEB PAGE)
Cisco’s Stock Performance
Cisco Financial History, Acquisitions, and Current Situation Market capitalization - Definition: The total dollar value of all outstanding shares. The number of shares times the current market price. Capitalization is a measure of corporate size.
Within 10 years of its initial public offering of stock, in the year 2000, Cisco had the highest
Market Capitalization in its history - 400 Billion US Dollars. This value changed dramatically
after the onset of the 2000 recession and the subsequent bursting of the“DotCom” bubble.
Many financial analysts believed the value of the stock in from 1998 until 2000 was irrational
and over-valued. As a comparison, Apple’s current Market Capitalization in 2014 is
approximately 515 Billion US Dollars.
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It was during the years 1998 to 2000, the years that Cisco was over-valued, that it was able to
acquire or purchase 43 companies alone. From 1993 to 1998 Cisco acquired or purchased a
total of 30 companies at an aggregate cost of 7 Billion US dollars. From 1999 to 2013 Cisco
acquired or purchased 135 companies for an aggregate cost of 65 Billion US Dollars. In
summary, from 1993 to 2013 Cisco absorbed 165 companies for 72 Billion US Dollars. Cisco
currently sits atop the market share in its industry with a 65% market share. Its nearest
neighbor is Juniper Networks with a 10% market share. Both companies have a “de facto”
duopoly in the industry.
Financial Analysis from Three Sources The Street Ratings April 11th, 2014. The Street Ratings Recommends Cisco Stock as a BUY The Street Ratings analysts believe that that Cisco should be bought based on the following reasons.
Cisco has competitive products to offer cable companies right now. Many cable companies can use Cisco’s DOCSIS 3.0 solution to enhance their networks for voice, data, and video services. The DOCSIS solution allows companies to get more bandwidth over their
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existing infrastructure with little or no upgrade and expand triple play capabilities. Many of these companies cannot invest capital dollars to upgrade or replace their coaxial media now although they need to eventually. When that time comes, Cisco has the next generation IPTV & Passive Optical Network (PON) technology available for infrastructure upgrades and replacement.
Cisco’s Gross Profit Margin is high and even though their Price to Earnings ratio (P/E) is low. Cisco’s Liquidity is high they have the ability to cover short term cash needs. Stockholders Equity or Net Worth remains unchanged for the last 12 months.
The S & P Capital IQ Ratings April 11th, 2014. The S & P Ratings Ratings Recommends Cisco Stock as a HOLD
The S & P Capital IQ Ratings analysts believe that that Cisco should be held based on the following reasons.
According to S & P Capital analysts, Cisco’s Risk Assessment is only medium or slightly below medium. Cisco does well in a highly competitive industry and has 50 Billion Dollars in Cash & Investments. The analysts also believe that Cisco is still a little like traditional data networking companies and lacking somewhat in innovation and new ideas. They recommend that Cisco begin to acquire new technologies and/or partner with other companies. Although Cisco has been doing exactly those things, the analysts believe it is not sufficient. They have a “wait and see” approach to Cisco’s performance and, therefore, recommend a hold.
The Ford Equity Research Ratings April 11th, 2014. The Ford Equity Research Ratings Recommends Cisco Stock as a BUY
The Ford Equity Research Ratings analysts believe that that Cisco should be bought based on the following reasons.
They project that Cisco will outperform the market over the next 6 to 12 months. This projection is based on their analysis of four key factors that influence common stock performance: earnings, strength, relative valuation, and recent price movement.
Based on Operating Earnings Yield, Ford Equity Research believes Cisco is currently undervalued compared to other companies. This would indicate that the long term price of the stock should increase significantly in time. They also state that Cisco’s Operating Earnings Yield of 8.3% ranks above 90% of other companies and that the 12 month Relative Return Forecast will be above average.
Cisco’s Recent Press Releases
Press Releases from 12th March 2014 to 23rd April 2014 The last 20 press releases from Cisco were chiefly about video, (6 stories), security (3
stories), and Cisco’s concept of the Internet of Everything, (4 stories).
April 23rd 2014 – Cisco announces that they would be providing WebEx enabled
Telepresence Technology for Clara’s Big Ride, a national tele-video conference to raise
awareness about youth and mental health. Cisco has donated their support and equipment for
this educational event which is set to begin on May 2nd 2014. Rider participants will bicycle
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across Canada visiting schools willing to participate and Cisco will be there to connect the
schools via video conferencing.
April 22nd 2014 - Cisco announces the launch of their new expert-staffed Security
Operations Centers (SOCs) located throughout the world called Managed Threat Defense.
These centers will provide security solutions for wired, mobile, and cloud-based networks used
by businesses and governments. These SOCs will use Cisco’s proprietary Advanced Malware
Protection (AMP) as well as its newly acquired Sourcefire FirePOWER for threat detection. The
SOCs will detect attacks and malware across networks using real-time protective analytics.
April 17th 2014 – Cisco announces that Bright House Networks, the 6th largest cable
provider in the US, has chosen their Network Convergence System (NCS) solution, a software
directed network technology to manage its network transport, Wi-Fi, security, and traditional
voice and data services to businesses. Cisco’s NCS solution will allow Bright House Networks
to offer cloud-based, managed services for businesses as well.
April 14th, 2014 – Cisco announces it will be deploy an IT infrastructure solution to the
new construction going on at the world-famous Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.
Cisco will also provide an IT infrastructure solution the older Mariinsky Theatre building
scheduled to undergo renovations in the next few years. This infrastructure deployment
includes data networks, wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi), VoIP systems, and video conference
equipment.
April 10th, 2014 – Cisco announces that it will host an “Internet of Things Innovation
Grand Challenge” at the Internet of Things World Forum (IOTWF) to be held in Chicago, IL in
October 2014. This Grand Challenge is open to start-up businesses and entrepreneurs who will
be able to compete and showcase their new products and innovations, the new ideas that will
facilitate the implementation of the Internet of Things and Cisco’s own concept of the Internet of
Everything (IoE). Cisco defines the Internet of Everything as the networked connection of
people, process, data and things. Cisco’s own research has estimated that by the year 2022
nearly 50 Billion “things” will be connected to the internet and this could have an economic
impact of 19 trillion US Dollars.
April 10th, 2014 – Cisco announced the launch of a new report at its CiscoCREATE
Internet of Everything Innovation Centre in Greenwich, England. This report, titled “The Internet
of Everything: Bringing the Future to Life” shows how the UK can take part in the estimated
economic stake of 19 Trillion US Dollars that could be created by the addition of 50 billion
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“things” to the internet by 2022. The report focused on 5 key areas that the Internet of
Everything will affect the economy of the UK: healthcare, retail, transport, energy and
manufacturing. The CiscoCREATE Centre exists to provide businesses and governments in the
UK and Ireland with the tools and solutions necessary to harness the power of the Internet of
Everything.
April 4th, 2014 – Cisco announces that NSS Labs, an independent testing lab, has given
Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) a recommended rating as a Breach Detection
System for networks. AMP was developed by SourceFire, a company recently acquired by
Cisco in October 2013. According to NSS, AMP achieved a 99% success rate in detecting
breaches as well as being low in cost compared with other systems tested. NSS Labs is an
information security research and advisory company based in Austin, TX.
April 7th, 2014 – Cisco hosted a live Tech Talk via teleconferencing to discuss their
Software Directed Network solution called Application Centric Infrastructure.
April 7th, 2014 – Cisco announced their new Videoscape Virtualized Video Processing
solution at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention held in Las
Vegas, NV. This new video solution will allow and facilitate the processing and transporting of
the new 4K Ultra High Definition Video. 4K Ultra HD television is the next step beyond the
current 720p & 1080p HD television in use today. 4K Ultra HD pictures are 3840 pixels wide by
2160 pixels tall - 8K Ultra HD also being developed. Cisco’s solution enhances AnyRes
encoding, supports full-frame rate 4K/Ultra High Definition content and High Efficiency Video
Coding (HEVC) standard.
April 7th, 2014 – Cisco, along with Sony, demonstrated a live 4K Ultra HD video stream
at the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. The live
feed was streamed from New York City to the convention in Las Vegas using Cisco’s hardware
and software.
April 7th, 2014 – Cisco demonstrated their new Videoscape TV Service Delivery Platform
at the NAB convention. At its booth on the convention floor, Cisco showcased their new video
products to show how video processing can be simplified and provided at a lower costs.
April 3rd, 2014 – Cisco announced that the largest water and sanitation company in
Moscow, Russia, Mosvodkanal, has chosen their video-conferencing solution to conduct weekly
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meetings with its employees and supervisors. The solution will provide HD videoconferencing
for 33 sites and 65 end-points.
April 2nd, 2014 – Asianet, a large cable and internet provider based in New Delhi, India
has chosen Cisco’s DOCSIS 3.0 next-generation enhanced broadband solution for its
subscribers. Cisco’s DOCSIS 3.0, defined as Data over Cable Service Interface Specifications,
and allows cable providers to process faster data rates (up to 300 Mbps) and High Definition
Television over their existing infrastructure. Asianet current uses a hybrid Fiber/Coaxial media
to bring video, voice, and data to its customers in India.
April 2nd, 2014 – Cisco announces that it launched “Connected north” to connect
education and healthcare services in the remote northern Communities. The Canadian
provincial government of Nunavut has chosen Cisco’s two-way HD video solution to connect
schools and health centers in Inuit and aboriginal communities.
April 2nd, 2014 – Cisco announces its new Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
protocol called OpFlex. This new protocol was co-authored by Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, RedHat,
and Sungard Availability Services and allows a network controller to apply network policies to
specific clients across different systems. This protocol shows Cisco’s commitment to have open
technologies and standards for enhanced interoperability and policy enforcement.
April 1st, 2014 – Cisco expands the integration of video surveillance, IP Cameras, and
Incident Response with analytics and open platform applications. Cisco has partnered with
Intuvision, Live Action, AgentVi and iOmniscient, AGT International, S2 Security, Etherstack,
Tait, IP Trade, and Technuf to create new safety and security solutions for its customers.
March 31, 2014 – Cisco announce that MULTIMEDIOS REDES, a Mexican Cable
company providing triple play services has chosen their DOCSIS 3.0 solution. MULTIMEDIOS
REDES made DOCSIS their choice due to the projected growth of IP traffic to grow seven fold
between 2010 and 2015. Cisco’s DOCSIS 3.0 provides a solution to enhance data traffic
speeds over existing cable infrastructures.
March 27th, 2014 - AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel announced today the formation of
the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). The purpose of the consortium is to break down
barriers of technology and to support better access to big data and to integrate the physical and
digital worlds. It will also facilitate the Industrial Internet applications, which is in accordance
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with Cisco’s vision of the Internet of Things. The IIC will have an open membership and will
develop solutions towards interoperability in industrial environments.
March 26th, 2014 – Cisco hosted a live Tech Talk via teleconferencing to discuss the
Future of Analytics and the Internet of Things.
March 26th, 2014 – Cisco provided both wired and wireless network infrastructure to the
Nuclear Security Summit hosted in The Hague, in the Netherlands on March 24th and 25th, 2014.
The network provided data traffic, voice, and video for both the delegates and the press. All the
network hardware used in the summit will be used in the future by the Dutch government.
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