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Once upon a time, Cisco effectively was the networking industry, starting around the time I joined in 1989 to help the company put together its IPO. The cachet of being an early Cisco customer was very real, and, frankly, Cisco earned its moment in the sun back then, a moment that — to its full...

In a clear echo of IBM’s ultimately futile efforts to cut costs in the early 90’s, October 5 was a watershed day for Cisco as over 2,000 of its best, and most senior, employees across the company took early retirement packages —technically, the Cisco Elect Program — and handed in their badges....

Years ago, Network Access Control (NAC) was a high-end security feature touted by legacy network switch vendors. But like so many other legacy vendor features, NAC has been successfully adopted by open network vendors and is ready for deployment in enterprise campus and access networks as part of a...