In the digital world during this special period, network and security are powerful themes. If the network allows us to transcend the physical world and meet on the cloud, then security is a barrier that accompanies it and helps it win thousands of miles away.

In the digital world during this special period, network and security are powerful themes.

If the Internet allows us to transcend the physical world and meet on the cloud, then security is a barrier that accompanies it and helps it win thousands of miles away.

Cisco works hard with users and partners to "ALL IN" to create an inclusive future

Online, cloud, hybrid office, remote work, these familiar digital labels continue to influence people's understanding of digital existence from every moment of life and work. Cognition!

Cisco Cisco Live 2022, the world's most influential network and security event, allows this kind of knowledge to be truly embedded in innovative scenarios and gathered into the essence of embodied practice for the enjoyment of digital fans.

After experiencing two grand online gatherings, this year's Cisco Live 2022 used the popular "hybrid" mode for the first time, allowing guests to experience the vibrant and united theme of ALL IN online and offline. It is reported that more than 16,000 guests attended the conference in Las Vegas, and 17 million people watched online around the world.

is emblazoned between the text, "ALL IN" - the meaning of full commitment is like lighting a torch of wisdom, illuminating the most beautiful innovations in network and security in the cloud era.

As Cisco Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins said: "After experiencing the challenges and unpredictable market environment in the past few years, the innovative power of technology and digital transformation are still the core priorities of every enterprise, and Cisco is always working with customers and partners to move forward in today's complex world."

Cisco Chairman and CEO Zhuo Ke

In fact, the innovation demonstrated at every Cisco Live will make the world's information interaction easier and make digital transformation more intelligent.

This year's Cisco Live2022 is no exception, from consistent experience to security flexibility, from hybrid office to application breakthroughs, from the fastest self-driving car to the Artemis 1 spacecraft...a platform that uses digital technology to empower thousands of industries Cisco is building an inclusive future for everyone.

Hou Shengli, Vice President of Cisco Greater China and General Manager of Cisco’s Pre-sales Engineering Team

“Inclusion as a development goal runs through Cisco’s four dimensions of hybrid office, security protection and connection, net zero and low carbon, and efficient innovation of the organization. , and eclectic innovative technologies are driving their steady upgrade." Hou Shengli, vice president of Cisco Greater China and general manager of Cisco’s pre-sales engineering team, said.

It has both software and hardware, and innovative products integrating cloud and network bring solid help.

At this Cisco Live2022, Cisco launched a series of new products and new solutions that provide solid help for an inclusive future from the technical level:

1 , Smarter, simpler networks require a more consistent experience

"Cisco will drive better integration of the network and the cloud, helping customers expand their ability to manage across public cloud, private cloud and edge computing environments." . Hou Shengli said so.

Regarding cloud-network integration, the core delivered by Cisco is to achieve "cloud-network integration" under a hybrid IT model. It is committed to connecting applications, clouds, network channels, and users to provide an end-to-end, in-depth User needs enable cloud-driven automated, simple, predictable, schedulable and consistent cloud network management environment.

The familiar Cisco star solution - Meraki, as the benchmark for cloud network integration, has brought hybrid office innovation to tens of thousands of companies: on the one hand, it has greatly reduced the high maintenance costs of traditional network architecture, and on the other hand, it has improved cloud network management The level has created a large number of examples of hybrid offices.

From the successful practice of Meraki, it is not difficult to see that Cisco is shining brightly on the road of innovation with both software and hardware, and cloud-network integration.

Weiduan.com learned that at this Cisco Live, Cisco further launched a new cloud management function that can provide a consistent experience for Cisco Meraki, Cisco Catalyst, and Cisco Nexus product portfolios, allowing customers to secure, logical, and seamless transition to more cloud-based operating models.In terms of

converged management, with the cloud management solution for Cisco Catalyst, customers can manage specific Catalyst switches and new Catalyst wireless devices through the Meraki control panel, bringing enhanced visibility and flexibility to the customer experience. By combining superior cloud management with network hardware, campus and branch network customers can further simplify IT operations. In terms of

software innovation, Cisco also released the DNA Controller software, which can be flexibly placed on private clouds and public clouds to uniformly manage enterprise campus networks. From another perspective, users can build a cloud-based architecture management platform themselves, or they can use Cisco Meraki's existing cloud management platform to manage the network. On the

SaaS application platform, the Nexus Cloud launched by Cisco allows users to manage multi-cloud networks by providing SaaS services. They can also observe and manage the various statuses of cloud application data flows through the platform, and observe whether the various services provided by the platform are normal. From campus networks to multi-cloud, IT managers can implement network management more flexibly and easily.

These innovations fully demonstrate that Cisco is increasing its investment in cloud management platforms and software services to provide customers with the agility, flexibility, and productivity necessary in changing application environments.

2. Converging security to the cloud to improve customer security resilience

When cloud and network integration accelerates the digital transformation of the industry, security is both an opportunity and an empowerment. The opportunity of

is that security can ensure the security status and business continuity of enterprises through changes in new service models; the empowerment is that excellent security capabilities can help users calmly deal with security threats from the digital world while maintaining a robust Enterprise operation quality and efficiency.

"Nowadays, how can hybrid office scenarios obtain security empowerment? The three steps of in the cloud era are consensus and Cisco's security innovation ideas: connection, flexible and stable access to the enterprise through network security access channels or SD-WAN In the network; control, through the zero trust mechanism, such as through corresponding zero trust SaaS services such as Cisco Umbrella and Duo, to meet the control needs of customers; integration, combine connectivity and security, provide users with solutions based on the integration architecture plan". Hou Shengli said.

In order to better realize this model, Cisco meets the various needs of customers through new security products:

connection level, the newly released Firepower3000 hardware security gateway, can set up remote network security access channels through the AnyConnect client, or can Better connections with the cloud and virtualization through secure intrusion prevention (IPS); at the control level, the Cisco+ Secure Connect Now overall solution can configure and manage different branches by granting the latter complete security policies, such as identity Authentication, authorization, etc., improve the security level; at the integration level, Cisco embeds AI applications into network management, turning passive network operation and maintenance into preventive network operation and maintenance. For example, the new Cisco ThousandEyes product, which is used to proactively predict and optimize WAN performance, gives the network predictive capabilities. Based on data analysis, it identifies foreseeable problems and responds in advance.

3. Hybrid office, intelligent collaboration improves work efficiency

During the special period of the epidemic, enterprises have chosen application solutions that are more competitive and can effectively enter the hybrid office scenario, so as to strengthen their resilience and achieve business goals.

The Cisco collaboration products represented by "Webex" and its security, network and other innovative solutions have become the "new paradigm" of hybrid office. In two years, Webex has added more than 1,000 new features - greatly improving hybrid office experience.

It can be seen that Cisco strives to allow all professionals to have a good work experience no matter where they are.

In the exhibition hall of this Cisco Live, attendees at Cisco’s hybrid office booth can experience the latest charm of Webex products in all scenarios: the built-in ultra-clear 4K camera, the Webex Room Bar that supports voice tracking and optimal framing, not only The Cisco Webex ecological platform enables business processing anytime and anywhere, and it can also be very flexibly connected with other third-party platforms; with AI technology, Webex can flexibly identify the environment and equipment, and enable hybrid office according to the scenario; Cisco Smart Workplace (smart work Space software) can be combined with Meraki and integrated with various sensors to support smart office.

From the perspective of the industry, the series of innovations demonstrated by Webex have not only brought "flexible access anytime, anywhere" office experience to corporate users during the epidemic, but also doubled "business resilience".

4. Fully embrace open source and open IT environment

Cisco not only provides complete IT solutions and commercial equipment that are well-known in the industry, but also provides chips and basic SONiC operating systems to customers and partners based on its own open strategy to help them achieve their own goals. Product development.

In fact, Cisco has been leveraging its advantages in chip innovation in recent years to focus on two focuses: First, using its own network chip architecture as a standard, Cisco has launched more faster and stronger chip products suitable for different scenarios. In the past 22 months, Cisco has launched 11 Silicon One chips to help users and partners customize routers and switches based on Cisco chips; Cisco supports various commercial and open source network operating systems, and serves as Contributors participate in open source projects and incubate products including Cisco cloud native suite, management and security suite for cloud services, etc.

"At last year's Open Source Networking Conference, many of the world's leading partners heavily adopted Cisco Silicone One's chips to build their own customized products, or built Cisco's customized commercial machines to meet customers' business needs." Hou Shengli emphasized, “The many Cisco cloud native products launched at Cisco Live 2022 can better help customers use cloud native to promote digital experience upgrades. These include cloud native Service Mesh governance, cloud native application security, cloud native fault diagnosis, etc. system".

For example, Cisco's newly launched AppDynamics Cloud cloud service can seamlessly collect big data information generated by the user's full cloud technology stack, correlate telemetry data from any cloud environment on a large scale, and use artificial intelligence and machine learning to support Observation capabilities and insight measures to comprehensively improve the digital experience of cloud native applications.

Conclusion

Weiduan.com believes that Cisco’s innovation power comes from real-world challenges and the vision of creating an inclusive future.

Cisco is embracing the changes of the times from equipment to cloud, from management to application, from technology to services, focusing on cloud network integration, agile and simplified network and secure operation methods.

"From the perspective of Cisco Live, whether customers use network, security or operation and maintenance platform , they all hope to adapt to changing trends to meet their own needs, and Cisco's product innovation truly allows users to get what they want, and "It should be done by hand," and use practical actions to bring a beautiful and inclusive future to our eyes." Hou Shengli concluded.