February 2015 Cisco E-Zine
Welcome to Arrowdawns February 2015 Edition of the Cisco Technical E‐Zine.
This is put together by members of the Cisco Technical Community to provide up‐to‐date technical information on Cisco Products, Technology and Services.
Table of Contents
Breaking News…
- Cisco Announces 2nd Quarter Earnings
- Internet of Things and Data Analytics Start-ups Join Cisco incubation Program
- Universidad Pan-Americana Deploys Cisco Wireless Network in their Mexico City Campus
- With the Airport Expansion, Cisco Wired Networks and Wi-Fi Have been Deployed in Latin America’s Hub
- Cisco hosts the World’s largest Internet of Everything Classroom during the Net-Academy Day in Milan
- Cisco Live Milan 2015 – Opening Keynote and Highlights
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and A10 Networks
- Cisco Nexus 1000V Supported for VMware vSphere 6 Release
- Cisco Blogs
- MP-BGP eVPN control plane for VXLAN – SDN is growing up
- Balance Cloud Models to Meet Workload Challenges
- What does the Internet of Everything mean for security?
Training Events or Summits/Webcasts 2015
- MPLS SDN, NFV & SDN AND IPV6 WORLD CONGRESS
- Cisco on Cisco Webinars 9
- Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches – Part 1 : Feb 12th
- Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches – Part 2 : Feb 17th
- Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches – Part 3 : Feb 24th
- Cisco TechWiseTV News
Secure Enterprise Network News
- ASR 9K 5.3.0 Release
- ASR 9K Tomahawk Line Cards – 8 port x 100 Gig
- Virtualised Service Module for ASR 9K
- The Industrialisation of Hacking
- Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2014-2019
- Meraki Quarterly Update
Collaboration News
- New Jabber 10.6 Clients
- Quality Video Experience on Any Device to Anyone
Data Center News
- New Cisco Nexus 7702 Switch Nexus 7000 Family NX-OS 6.2(12) Release Announcement Nexus 3000 Family Enhancements : 3548-X & 3132Q-X
- Cisco Nexus 5648Q and the new 12 Port 40G Ethernet/ FCoE GEM
- Nexus 2332TQ Fabric Extender
- BGP VXLAN Support on the Nexus 9000 and Nexus 7000
- CCO posting of NX-OS 7.1(0)N1(1a)
- Nexus 9000 Additions to the Portfolio – 100GE
- New Nexus 93120TX
- FlexPod with UCS Mini
- Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite
- Cisco® ONE Software
EOS/EOL Notifications
- EOL/EOS for the Cisco UCS C200 M1 1TB SAS 7.2K RPM 3.5″ Hard Disk Drive
- EOL/EOS for the Cisco UCS C200 M1 300GB SAS 15K RPM 3.5″ Hard Disk Drive
- EOL/EOS for the Cisco Catalyst 6500/Cisco 7600 Series Router Anomaly Guard Module and Anomaly Detector Module 26
Breaking News…
Cisco Announces 2nd Quarter Earnings
Strong Momentum and Results with Dividend Increase to $0.21, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Q2 Revenue: $11.9 billion (increase of 7% year over year)
Q2 Earnings per Share: $0.46 GAAP; $0.53 non-GAAP
Cisco the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, today reported its second quarter results for the period ended January 24, 2015. Cisco reported second quarter revenue of $11.9 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.4 billion or $0.46 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.7 billion or $0.53 per share.
“Our Q2 results reflect continued progress as we transform Cisco to become the #1 IT company. In the quarter we grew revenues by 7%, with strong EPS growth, and saw the best balance of growth across all our geographies, products, and segments. We delivered this strong performance despite a volatile economic environment,” stated Cisco chairman and CEO John Chambers.
“Our strong momentum is the direct result of how well we have managed our company transformation over the last three plus years and our leadership position in the key technology transitions of cloud, mobility, big data, security, collaboration, and the Internet of Everything. Every nation, every company, everything is becoming digitized and the network is at the center of this transformation.” http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1591387
Internet of Things and Data Analytics Start-ups Join Cisco incubation
Program
Cisco® unveiled the newest cohort of startups to join Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR), an incubation program supporting early-stage business-to-business companies. The incoming cohort will collaborate with Cisco and its global partner ecosystem to build Internet of Everything, Big Data/Analytics and Smart City solutions.
Cohort companies take part in a six-month program of events, mentoring and collaboration geared towards bringing ideas to reality. Entrepreneurs selected to participate receive support from and introductions to business groups within Cisco, access to co-working space, and mentoring from industry experts. Program events feature opportunities to present products and ideas to investors and partners, as well.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1576527
Universidad Pan-Americana Deploys Cisco Wireless Network in their Mexico City Campus
Mexico City, January 29, 2015. In order to offer a broad and reliable Internet connection to their
community, the Universidad Panamericana chose Cisco® technology for its campus in Mexico City.
The deployment includes Cisco Aironet™ Access Points (APs) that offer customers an easy-to-install, single- band 802.11g radio. The APs features enterprise-class management, security, and scalability. Additionally, the university’s deployment of Cisco Catalyst 4500 L3 switch enables converged wired-wireless access to support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and mobility as well as a variety of performance enhancements and security.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1578400
With the Airport Expansion, Cisco Wired Networks and Wi-Fi Have been Deployed in Latin America’s Hub
Sao Paulo, Brazil, January 30, 2015 – The GRU Airport – Sao Paulo International Airport – has adopted
Cisco® technology to integrate and update its technology and telecommunications infrastructure. Considered the main hub of Latin America, the GRU Airport has deployed Cisco wired and Wi-Fi networks in its newly opened Terminal 3. The objective was to assist with the needs of the increasing passengers flow for the next 20 years, driven also by the increased demand during large sports events occurring in Brazil, such as the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1580012
Cisco hosts the World’s largest Internet of Everything Classroom
during the Net-Academy Day in Milan
MILAN – 26 January 2015 – Today, Cisco hosts the Cisco NetAcademy Day, the 2nd Annual gathering of
over 10,000 global NetAcademy students to explore the potential of the Internet of Everything to drive new social innovation, new skill requirements and employment.
In the prelude to Cisco Live!™ Milan, 1,500 students will gather, with thousands more joining virtually for a day of sessions with Internet of Everything technology leaders, visionaries and innovators who will hope to inspire and educate this next generation of IoE experts.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1577636
Cisco Live Milan 2015 – Opening Keynote and Highlights
Opening Keynote : Carlos Dominguez and Jeremy Bevan as they review the amazing things we have achieved in building the internet over the last decade and look at what we must do to build an internet fit for purpose for the next decade. TOMORROW starts here. https://www.ciscolive.com/online/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=81687&backBtn=true
For other highlights of the Milan event, please like us at the following Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/ciscoliveeurope
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and A10 Networks
A10 Networks has announced the integration of its Thunder Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric. Offering dynamic L4-L7 application networking services, this joint solution enables enterprises to amplify their data center output by automatically provisioning application delivery and security services with a significant increase in both allocation speed and business agility – all at a reduced cost.
“Our vision to deliver on-demand, policy-based mechanisms for dynamic L4-L7 services in a cloud environment closely aligns with the streamlined application delivery cycles of the Cisco ACI common policy framework,” said Raj Jalan, CTO of A10 Networks. “By combining A10 Thunder ADC and Cisco ACI solutions, we are able to provide enterprises with rich application delivery and security capabilities in a shared infrastructure.”
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric- infrastructure/solution-overview-c22-733609.pdf
Cisco Nexus 1000V Supported for VMware vSphere 6 Release
Nexus 1000V will continue to be supported in the latest vSphere 6 release which VMware recently announced. Customers who are currently running Nexus 1000V will be able to upgrade to the vSphere 6 release and the new vSphere 6 customers will have the Nexus 1000V as part of their choices for virtual networking.
The Nexus 1000V has been the industry’s leading virtual switching platform with innovations on VXLAN (industry’s first shipping VXLAN platform), and distributed zone firewall (via Virtual Security Gateway released in Jan 2011).
The Nexus 1000V also continues to be the industry’s only multi-hypervisor virtual switching solution that delivers enterprise class functionality and features across vSphere, Hyper-V and KVM.
Note : VMware has decided to no longer offer Nexus 1000V through VMware sales or sell support for the Nexus 1000V through the VMware support organization as of Feb 2nd 2015. Cisco wishes to reiterate that this has NO IMPACT on the availability and associated support from Cisco for the Nexus 1000V running in a vSphere environment.
Cisco will continue to sell Nexus 1000V and offer support contracts. Cisco encourages customers who are currently using VMware support for the Nexus 1000V to migrate their support contracts to Cisco by contacting their local Cisco Sales team to aide in this transition.
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/announcing-cisco-nexus-1000v-for-vmware-vsphere-6-release
Cisco Blogs
MP-BGP eVPN control plane for VXLAN – SDN is growing up
We are all proud parents of our products as developers, much like our own children, we see them born, care and feed for them, watch them carefully as they are unstable during early years, we do not go out much, they become more stable over time, and then something happens – they grow up and there is a need to interact with others. This could describe some of early customer experiences with first generation SDN LAN Emulation technologies.
Cisco Systems introduction and support of Multi-Protocol BGP eVPN control plane for VXLAN https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11 is an indication that the SDN industry is growing up, leveraging standards-track protocols, and enabling SDN to scale and interact with others. This is far more significant to the SDN industry than one can read in a single press release and we will expand on its relevance in this blog.
For the rest of the Blog article please go here : http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter
Balance Cloud Models to Meet Workload Challenges
Are you seeking to move to an IT-as-a-service model ?
See what IDC says about Cisco’s approach to hybrid cloud: cs.co/6019LXjF
What does the Internet of Everything mean for security?
Interesting article by John Chambers at the recent World Economic Forum, on ‘What does the Internet of
Everything mean for security?’
https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/01/companies-fighting-cyber-crime/
Training Events or Summits/Webcasts 2015
Cisco offers a range of IT certification, training, and testing programs to meet the needs of IT professionals, partners, employees, and students.
Please use the URL below to find out more information :
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/index.html
MPLS SDN, NFV & SDN AND IPV6 WORLD CONGRESS
Please join Cisco at the upcoming MPLS SDN, NFV & SDN and IPv6 World Congress in Paris, 17 – 20 March to learn how our transformational innovations can help you accelerate positive business outcomes.
Please register to confirm your participation
Top Cisco distinguished engineers and subject matter experts will be available to answer your questions. Contact me to schedule a private meeting to discuss your network transformation strategy and desired business outcomes.
Visit Cisco’s Booth #315 : Stop by our booth to see first hand how Cisco’s Evolved Programmable
Network Innovations can simplify your network operations, virtualize your services and automate provisioning for your customers.
Attend Cisco Keynotes and Technical Sessions
Make the most of your trip to Paris by learning as much as you can about transformational innovations by making Cisco’s NFV & SDN, MPLS SDN, and V6 World Congress sessions part of
your schedule.
Cisco on Cisco Webinars
Take a look inside Cisco IT and join us for technical sessions, panel discussions and global webinars. Our IT experts share their insight, technical acumen and first hand experiences deploying and using Cisco products that yield tangible business benefits. You can also find Cisco IT subject matter experts at industry trade shows, conferences, and Cisco events worldwide.
Why not take a look inside Cisco IT ?
Find out how Cisco addresses many of the same IT challenges you face every day :
http://www.cisco.com/go/ciscooncisco
Upcoming Webinars
A BETTER WAY TO A HYBRID-READY PRIVATE CLOUD
Learn how Cisco Enterprise Cloud Suite is a better journey to a hybrid-ready private cloud.
http://tools.cisco.com/gems/cust/customerQA.do?METHOD=E&LANGUAGE_ID=E&SEMINAR_CODE=S22241&PRIORI
TY_CODE=000675274
Business today is all about business velocity to expand into new markets and revenue opportunities. Many commercially available private cloud solutions are complex, monolithic solutions that require immense installation and technical skills. Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite delivers a better way with modular end- to-end automation, out-of-box tools for application developers, and a transparent user interface to manage private and hybrid environments.
Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches – Part 1 : Feb 12th
This session discussed and compared Nexus 1000v deployments on VMware, Hyper-V and Openstack-KVM
hypervisors, covering the following topics in detail. Recording can be found at the following link:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/video/12424691/expert-depth-series-cisco-nexus-1000v-series-switches-part-1-
video
For accompanying slides (need to register)
Slides from Part 1: Conquered Territory: Multi-Hypervisor – February 12, 2015
Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches – Part 2 : Feb 17th
During this dynamic online event, data center expert, Vishal Mehta, will present the second of three parts in-depth webcasts on Series on Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches: Meet the 1000v Family: The Secret of Unity. This session will discuss vPath: The Secret behind uniting Virtual Network Services provided by ASA 1000v, VSG, vWAAS, Nexus 1000v, vNAM.
We will also discuss integration of Nexus 1000v with Cloud Services Router (CSR) to address routing needs of the virtualized Data Center. There will be brief introduction to Cisco Prime Network Services Controller (PNSC), which is a single pane that can automate virtual network management to execute configuration changes quickly and consistently.
Register Now
Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches – Part 3 : Feb 24th
During this dynamic online event, data center expert, Vishal Mehta, will present the third of three parts in – depth webcasts on Series on Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches: Game Changer: Silver Lining in the Cloud
Cisco Intercloud Fabric (ICF) for Providers allows your customers to extend their data and applications into your public cloud with the same performance, security, policies, and workload control that they have in their own data centers. The ICF solution is based on Nexus 1000v VSM-VEM architecture with aid of ICF- Director and PNSC along with other Virtual services such as VSG, ASA 1000v and CSR.
The core of this session will go through deployment phases for enabling ICF. AVS architecture is clone of Nexus 1000V virtual switch. As a key component of the overall ACI framework, AVS allows for intelligent policy enforcement and optimal traffic steering for virtual applications. Single point of management and control for both physical and virtual workloads and infrastructure
Register Here Now
(Live Webcast Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time)
Featured Speaker : Vishal Mehta is a customer support engineer for Cisco’s Data Center Server Virtualization Technical Assistance Center (TAC) team based in San Jose, California. He has been working in the TAC for the past 3 years with a primary focus on data center technologies such as Cisco Nexus® 5000, Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus 1000V, and virtualization. He holds a master’s degree from Rutgers University in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has CCIE® certification (number 37139) in Routing/Switching, Service Provider & Data Center.
Cisco TechWiseTV News
TechWiseTV – Cisco’s window to the world: http://www.cisco.com/go/techwisetv
Subscribe to Cisco’s YouTube channel: http://cs.co/Subscribe
TechWiseTV examines the technology driving IT strategy and decision-making. Join hosts Robb Boyd, Jimmy Ray Purser, and their guests in these informative and entertaining videos and online workshops.
What’s New?
See How the Powerful Network Resources You Already Have Can Help Keep You Protected Over the past weeks, TechWiseTV has showcased several innovative and powerful security tools built to help protect your network.
But what about looking inside the network for answers? Could there be resources within your current architecture that can help defend against threats ? That is exactly what we were determined to find out.
Watch our latest on-demand episode and see how NetFlow, Cisco Identity Services Engine, and Cisco TrustSec—network solutions you already have—can provide an added layer of protection to your organization’s security strategy.
Join our special guests and us as we put the network back in network security. Be sure not to miss this one http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le21/onlineevts/offers/twtv/en/twtv163/preview.html
Make Sure You Have the Right Solutions in Place to Reach Up to 5 Gb/s on Your Existing
Cable
Wave 2 of 802.11ac is coming and with it, wireless speeds that’ll eclipse today’s gigabit Ethernet. With the
right tools, you can use your current Cat5 cable to get all that speed and even prepare for future innovations. Check out this latest TechWiseTV episode now and learn what you will need to take full advantage of multigigabit wireless, including a look at Cisco’s deep involvement in driving the standards for
2.5 and 5 Gb/s Ethernet rates.
Explore the technical challenges and business opportunities of these unprecedented access speeds with seasoned industry pros. Register now. http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le21/onlineevts/offers/twtv/en/twtv165/preview.html
Secure Enterprise Network News
ASR 9K 5.3.0 Release
The Cisco ASR 9000 Series is introducing support for industry-leading, high-density 8-port 100 Gigabit
Ethernet line cards with Cisco IOS XR Software Release 5.3.0. These line cards are fully compatible with Cisco ASR 9006, ASR 9010, ASR 9904, ASR 9912 and ASR 9922 routers. The high-capacity line cards are designed to remove bandwidth bottlenecks caused by a large increase in video-on-demand (VoD), IPTV, point-to-point video, Internet video, and cloud services traffic.
The Cisco IOS XR Software Release 5.3.0 also introduces support for new 56-Gbps line cards and Route
Switch Processors (RSPs) for the Cisco ASR 9000 Series, as well as, new optics and software features :
DIAMETER Support in BNG
Nonstop Routing Enabled by Default
Excessive Punt Flow Trap (EPFT) Enhancements
PIM Per Interface States Limit/IGMP Per Interface States Limit
TACACS IPV6 Support
New DWDM Alarm Reporting Rules
Alarm Reporting During DWDM Controller State Change
Notification for Loopback Configuration Change on DWDM Controller Interface
CPAK
Clocking support for nV Cluster
Address-based Forwarding with ACL Object-group
VRF Aware LMA
NAT64 on VSM
64-way Equal Cost Multi-Paths
Data Plane Security and IPv6 Routing Locators
OSPFv2 Topology Independent Fast Reroute
IPv6 Support in MPLS LDP
Multi Nexthop Tracking
Netconf
Reduced G.8032 Ethernet Ring Protection Convergence Time
BNG Subscriber Templates
Delegation of PCC Initiated Tunnels
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/asr9000/software/asr9k_r5-
3/general/release/notes/reln_530a9k.html
ASR 9K Tomahawk Line Cards – 8 port x 100 Gig
The Cisco® ASR 9000 Series 8-Port 100 Gigabit Ethernet Line Card delivers an industry-leading eight 100
Gigabit Ethernet ports to any slot of a Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router. These high- capacity line cards are designed to remove bandwidth bottlenecks in the network today that are caused by a large increase in video-on-demand (VoD), IPTV, point-to-point video, Internet video, and cloud services traffic
Unprecedented Scale – 240 Gbps in one ASIC!
Hardware Offload of CPU Intensive Protocols
CPAK Delivers 10G, 40G or 100G on any Interface on One LC for Common Sparing and Onetime LC Qualification
High Availability Customized Silicon – Hitless FPD Upgrades
Embedded MACSec for Increased Security
Power Down Unused Linecard Slices to Increase Efficiency
Lowest Watts per Gbps with CPAK and Optimized Silicon
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr-9000-series-aggregation-services-routers/datasheet- c78-733790.html
Virtualised Service Module for ASR 9K
Unlock the benefits of virtualization to make your network more flexible, agile, and simpler to manage. The
Cisco® Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Series Virtualized Services Module (VSM) makes it easy for service providers to transition network infrastructure services to virtual workloads. The VSM provides the capability to host Cisco, third-party, and custom applications in a virtualized environment much like a server blade on a router.
This flexible, elastic approach lets you increase or decrease service capacity as needed, so there is no need to design for maximum capacity. Simplified provisioning and upgrades help you save time and reduce costly truck rolls for upgrades or troubleshooting. The Cisco ASR 9000 Series VSM can help you maximize the availability of services through virtual machine migration in the event of hardware failures. The module has its own processors, network interfaces, and memory that operate independently of the host router resources, helping ensure maximum concurrent routing and application performance.
The Cisco ASR 9000 Series VSM is supported on these Cisco ASR 9000 Series routers :
- Cisco ASR 9904 Router
- Cisco ASR 9006 Router
- Cisco ASR 9010 Router
- Cisco ASR 9912 Router
- Cisco ASR 9922 Router
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/routers/asr-9000-series-aggregation-services- routers/datasheet-c78-730521.html
The Industrialisation of Hacking
How we got here and what to do to ensure the future of cyber security, Federal agencies and private monitoring companies agree that cyber attacks today are more frequent and more destructive. It’s no longer a matter of if these attacks will happen, but when and for how long. Cisco reports stopping an average of 320 million cyber attacks each day. Or more than 3,700 attacks every second.
Cisco also finds that 75 percent of all attacks take only minutes to begin data
exfiltration but take much longer to detect. More than half of all attacks persist for months—even years— before they are discovered. And it can take weeks or months for a security breach to be fully contained and remediated
http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1572 627
Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast
Update, 2014-2019
The Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update is part of the
comprehensive Cisco VNI Forecast, an on-going initiative to track and forecast the impact of visual networking applications on global networks.
This paper presents some of Cisco ’s major global mobile data traffic projections and growth trends.
The Mobile Network in 2014 : Global mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014. Last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Mobile video traffic exceeded 50 percent of total mobile data traffic for the first time in 2012. Almost half a billion (497 million) mobile devices and connections were added in 2014. Mobile network (cellular) connection speeds grew 20 percent in 2014
In 2014, a fourth-generation (4G) connection generated 10 times more traffic on average than a non-4G connection. The top 1 percent of mobile data subscribers generated 18 percent of mobile data traffic, down from 52 percent at the beginning of 2010. Average smartphone usage grew 45 percent in
Meraki Quarterly Update
Bringing You the Latest in Cloud Networking. In 2014, the Meraki cloud-managed feature portfolio
expanded significantly. We would like to keep our customers in the loop with the latest developments here
at Meraki, and to help address this; we are excited to launch “The Meraki Quarterly Webinar”
In this recurring webinar, we will bring together the product managers from our wireless, security, switching, and MDM lines and they will be able to share what’s new. These sessions would be like a snapshot of Meraki, refreshed every three months.
Quarter One 2015 Update (You Tube Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoRW5TslEXQ
Meraki Blog: https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/
Meraki Webinars: https://meraki.cisco.com/webinars
Collaboration News
New Jabber 10.6 Clients
Give your teams the freedom to be productive from anywhere, on any device,
with Cisco Jabber. Cisco Jabber lets you access presence, instant messaging (IM), voice, video, voice messaging, desktop sharing, and conferencing. Now you can find the right people, see if and how they are available, and collaborate using your preferred method
Ever need to transfer a file ?
In Jabber 10.6, you can transfer files to your colleagues independent of which client they are using. If they are mobile, they can save the file to Box or another cloud service to retrieve later on
their desktop. Additionally, on premises (CUCM IM/P) users can transfer files to an individual, group chat or chat room, all with audit and policy controls which now allows admins to roll out this feature into environments with compliance requirements. See the screen cap below for how simple this is on mobile devices.
Ever need to share your desktop only to hear complaints they can’t read the content ?
Prior to this release, BFCP video share was supported on desktop PC / MAC; Release 10.6 extends the capability to mobile users, allowing them to see the content by pinching and zooming to view it
without squinting
Ever need to be alerted when someone becomes available or know the other person’s location?
In Jabber for Windows 10.6, users can ask to be alerted when a colleague becomes available, or share location detail with their colleagues so they can be contacted in person when appropriate.
See the screen cap below for how easy this is to configure yourself.
For Administrators, this release enables significant new deployment opportunities including:
Single Sign-On is now supported via Expressway Mobile and Remote Access, enabling you to deploy the entire Jabber solution with a single sign-on independent of backend services used.
Phone only mode (in addition to IM only, and Full UC modes) is now available across all OS’s enabling administrators to deploy Jabber voice & video into competitive IM/P environments, and accelerating migrations from Jabber Video aka Movi (EOS announced) to Jabber.
Software Download Links
- Jabber for Windows: Cisco.com Software Downloads
- Jabber for Mac: Cisco.com Software Downloads
- Jabber for Android: Google Play
- Jabber for iPhone and iPad: Apple App Store
Locations configuration in Jabber for Windows
Quality Video Experience on Any Device to Anyone
As the workforce becomes more mobile and distributed, leaders recognize the benefits and growing impact of video as a key part of business collaboration. Video is becoming more pervasive. Case in point: Today’s desktop and mobile devices have a camera, if not two.
You can use video collaboration to improve communications, relationships, and productivity by helping people meet face-to-face over distances. This helps you:
Improve decision making by reducing communications delay
Build trust and understanding across time zones within cross-functional and diverse teams
Reduce employee travel, real-estate costs, and environmental impact
Encourage information sharing and knowledge building with employees, partners, and customers
It’s all part of engagement – making it easy and natural for people to collaborate. Cisco is taking these interactions to the next level. Video collaboration experiences are available anywhere, and are as easy as voice. For many use cases, these experiences are better than being there.
Cisco provides one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of purpose-built, high-quality video collaboration solutions. These solutions are designed to meet the needs of all types of workers, whether deskbound or on the road.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collaboration/video-collaboration/index.html
Collaborate with Anyone at Any Time
Cisco supports video to and from the desktop, mobile devices, and the boardroom with easier, more transparent interactions and consistent experiences. Affordable solutions provide superior scale through hardware, software, and cloud architecture strategies, and help enable any-to-any video through standards-based technology.
Experience Better Video
Deploy video that is easy to use, deploy, maintain, and integrate. Users get intuitive interactions, less dependence on IT, and a single identity across all devices. IT gets unified call-control and management platforms to ease administration, speed deployment, and simplify troubleshooting. It’s all based on an integrated end-to-end architecture that uses the intelligent network for highly secure, reliable, more comprehensive, and overall better user experiences.
Achieve More with Video Collaboration
Use video to accomplish what you cannot in person. Improve productivity by meeting with people in multiple countries in one day, or with hundreds of people at once – wherever you are. Attend meetings on your own time, replay important material, and easily navigate on keywords and speakers.
Data Center News
New Cisco Nexus 7702 Switch
In response to the need for a compact switch with an enhanced set of features, Cisco is pleased to
announce the addition of the Cisco Nexus 7702 Series Modular Switch to the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series family. This switch shares the same system architecture, ASIC technology and comprehensive Cisco NX-OS feature set as the other Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Modular Switches, so, it provides the operational consistency and functionality that are familiar to customers. The shared architecture minimizes the time to deploy and the compact size maximizes the number of use cases where this switch can be deployed.
The Cisco Nexus 7702 Switch provides:
One I/O module slot, which supports all current F3-Series Nexus 7700 I/O modules.
One supervisor slot, which supports the same supervisor module as all other Nexus 7700 switches.
Two power supply slots, which support the same 3KW AC and DC power, supply units as all other
Nexus 7700 Switches.
The Cisco Nexus 7702 switch inherits all the features available on current Nexus 7700 switches as all Nexus
7700 F3 series I/O modules can be used on it. This capability enables customers to leverage the rich and powerful features offered by the Nexus 7700 F3 series modules in a compact switch.
The Nexus 7702 requires Cisco NX-OS Software Release 7.2 or later
Furthermore, the Cisco Nexus 7702 Switch will support future Nexus 7700 I/O modules, supervisors, and power supply units.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-7700-2-slot-switch/index.html
Nexus 7000 Family NX-OS 6.2(12) Release Announcement
Cisco is pleased to announce the immediate availability of NX-OS 6.2(12) for download from CCO. This
release includes a number of new software features as well as introducing support for a new 48 -port 1/10
Gigabit Ethernet module on the Cisco Nexus 7000. This F3 Series module is a low-latency, high- performance, high-density 100 Gigabit Ethernet module. It is operationally consistent with the Cisco Nexus
7700 F3-Series modules and shares common system architecture and the same application-specific
integrated circuit (ASIC) technology.
New software features introduced with Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(12) includes :
FCoE support has been added for the Cisco Nexus 7706
Introduction of the command: ip dscp-lop
Introduction of the command: [ no ] system default link-fail laser-on
For further information on what is included within this software release, please refer to the release notes at the following location :
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/6_x/nx-os/release/notes/62_nx-
os_release_note.html
For further information on the new Cisco Nexus 7000 F3 Series 48 Port 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet module :
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-7000-series-switches/datasheet-c78-
733366.html
Nexus 3000 Family Enhancements : 3548-X & 3132Q-X
Nexus 3548-X offers lower power consumption (~ 25%), Multicast NAT: Simplifies co-location integration and Latency Monitoring: FIFO Traffic visibility and troubleshooting
Nexus 3132Q-X featuring lower Power consumption (~ 15%), the option for 4 x 10GE SFP ports at a lower price
Cisco Nexus 3000 Series Switches extend Cisco Unified Fabric to the data center. Highly programmable, these dense fixed-port switches offer simplified management, enhanced network visibility, and advanced monitoring, all supported by a consistent NX-OS. This family includes the Nexus 3000, high-density Nexus
3100, and ultra-low-latency Nexus 3500 switches. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-3548-switch/index.html
Cisco Nexus 5648Q and the new 12 Port 40G Ethernet/ FCoE GEM
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches are designed to deliver high-density top-of-rack (ToR) Layer 2 and Layer
3, 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet with unified ports in compact one-, two-, and four-rack-unit form factors. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series includes the Cisco Nexus 5500 and 5600 platforms as part of the Cisco Unified Fabric portfolio.
The Nexus 5648Q features 24 x 40G ports and can scale up to 48 x 40G ports via 2 of the 12 port 40G GEM modules. This new switch also supports FEX, offers VXLAN capabilities, and rich data analytics and FCoE support.
The Cisco Nexus 5624Q offers a hot-swappable generic expansion module (GEM) for an additional twelve
40 Gigabit Ethernet ports
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/index.html
Nexus 2332TQ Fabric Extender
The 2332TQ supports 32 x 10GBaseT + 4 x 40G Uplinks plus all of the feature set that the Nexus 2300
Series offers including larger buffers to absorb traffic bursts, support for Cisco 40G BiDi optics, and additional versatile TCAM Supporting for support of capabilities such as ACL classifications and QOS, and local flow redirect for architectures that require intra-rack traffic to reduce bandwidth.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-2000-series-fabric-extenders/index.html
BGP VXLAN Support on the Nexus 9000 and Nexus 7000
VXLAN IETF draft does not specify a control plane, and relies on a flood-and-learn mechanism for host and endpoint discovery. The Cisco® Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Control Plane for VXLAN solution is an open, interoperable standards based approach using the proven features of BGP to provide a more scalable, flexible, alternative.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/white-paper- c11-733737.html
CCO posting of NX-OS 7.1(0)N1(1a)
The NX-OS 7.1(0)N1(1a), release delivers support for new products in the Nexus Fixed Family of Switches
and enables new software technologies on the product line. The new hardware products and components supported in this release are
Cisco Nexus 5624Q switch
Cisco Nexus 2348TQ FEX
Cisco 100 G Line Card Expansion Module on Cisco Nexus 5696Q
H7 Power Supply Support—support for forward air flow (FAF) and reverse air flow (RAF) with both
AC and DC power source
10 G Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
LR4 Optics—WSP-Q40GLR4L
The key new Software Features in the release are :
DC Fabric innovations with support of VXLAN Bridging and Routing and Cloud DC Automation through VM Tracker capability
Security enhancements including CTS with FabricPath, Dynamic ARP Inspection and stronger
password enforcement
Infrastructure enhancements with support for maintenance mode for switch maintenance
Enhancements for VPC with IPv6 keep alive and Multicast scale
Long distance support for FCoE.
Nexus 9000 Additions to the Portfolio – 100GE
100G on Nexus 9500 and Nexus 9300
Keeping up with evolving data center bandwidth demands, Cisco is introducing 100GE modules for both the Nexus 9500 and 9300 (8 port and 4 port respectively) for high performance spine/core connectivity and also for direct router interconnect.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/datasheet-c78-
729404.html
New Nexus 93120TX
The Cisco Nexus 93120TX is a line-rate Layer 2 and Layer 3 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switch for both 3-tier
and spine-leaf architectures. With the option to operate in Cisco NX-OS or Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) mode, it can be deployed in small business, enterprise, and service provider architectures.
The Cisco Nexus 93120TX Switch has 96 10-Gbps BASE-T and 6 x 40 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks. Front-panel ports can operate at 100 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 10 Gbps speeds. This gives you a flexible platform that’s perfect for migrating network access ports to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. All ports are line rate, delivering 2.4
Tbps of throughput in a 2-rack-unit (1RU) form factor.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-93120tx-switch/index.html#
FlexPod with UCS Mini
FlexPod with UCS Mini is a simple, easy to manage, and expandable solution that brings the performance and power of Cisco UCS integration in an all-in-one, small footprint optimized for non-datacenter environments, such as remote sites, branch offices, and any location where data is generated and compute resources are needed.
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/flexpod_ucsmini_design.pdfCisco Technical E‐Zine: February 2015 Page 24 of 26
Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite
Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite is an engineered software solution not a platform. It delivers a hybrid – ready private cloud software solution that contains out-of-box installation and content. There are out-of- box utensils designed specifically to accelerate the design and deployment of your existing and cloud-first applications – across private and hybrid environments.
http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/introducing-cisco-one-enterprise-cloud-suite
Cisco® ONE Software
Cisco ONE Software is a valuable and flexible way to buy software for your data center, WAN, and access
domains. At each stage in the product lifecycle, Cisco ONE Software helps make buying, managing, and upgrading your network and infrastructure software easier.
Cisco ONE software helps you purchase the right software capabilities to address their business needs. These products offer a greater value to customers with more features at “better together” pricing. They deliver reduced complexity, simplified buying, and the peace of mind that today’s software investments will last into the future.
Cisco ONE Software provides four key benefits :
Software suites that address typical customer use case scenarios at an attractive price
Investment protection of software purchases through license portability
Access to ongoing innovation and new technology from Cisco
Flexible licensing models to smoothly distribute customer’s software spending over time
To learn more about how Cisco ONE Software can help your organization, visit the Cisco ONE website:
http://www.cisco.com/go/one
EOS/EOL Notifications
EOL/EOS for the Cisco UCS C200 M1 1TB SAS 7.2K RPM 3.5″ Hard Disk Drive
Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco UCS C200 M1 1TB SAS 7.2K RPM 3.5″ Hard Disk Drive. The last day to order the affected product(s) was July 15, 2010.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c200-m1-high-density-rack- mount-server/end_of_life_c51-575505.html
EOL/EOS for the Cisco UCS C200 M1 300GB SAS 15K RPM 3.5″ Hard Disk Drive
Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco UCS C200 M1 300GB SAS 15K RPM 3.5″ Hard Disk Drive. The last day to order the affected product(s) was January 14, 2011.
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c200-m1-high-density-rack- mount-server/end_of_life_c51-575500.html
EOL/EOS for the Cisco Catalyst 6500/Cisco 7600 Series Router Anomaly Guard
Module and Anomaly Detector Module
Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Catalyst 6500/Cisco 7600 Series Router Anomaly Guard Module and Anomaly Detector Module http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/interfaces-modules/services-modules/end_of_life_c51-573493.html