Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Cisco ...

Cisco is to offer businesses a new software client designed to increase the speed of access to remote applications for mobile workers. The offering, announced on Tuesday at the Cisco Networkers 2008 ...

Cisco today kicked off its applications centric infrastructure (ACI) effort, announced the purchase of Insieme Networks and presented partner backing for its software-defined networking (SDN) ...

Two families of network appliances announced Thursday and now shipping from Cisco Systems Inc. may help enterprises reach out to customers and branch workers more quickly and efficiently. The ...

Cisco’s fifth acquisition this year is Epsagon, whose application-performance technology will be integrated into Cisco’s AppDynamics performance-management platform. Cisco is looking to bolster its ...

Cisco's new technology, dubbed Application-Oriented Networking (AON), can read the messages that flow between applications and bases networking decisions on their contents. For example, the network ...

The promise of software-defined networking — namely simpler, more flexible network operation through centralized, software-driven control — has been tangible for a few years now, though like many new ...

Layer 7 application visibility and control (AVC) seems like the hottest buzz in the industry right now. Cisco has had web AVC in its Ironport Web Security appliances but just announced it on its ...

New Cisco Secure Application solution simplifies vulnerability management and defends applications against slowdowns and exploits. Only solution bringing security insights that prevent and fix ...

Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday a new technology that is designed to improve software performance on corporate networks. The technology, called Application Network Services (ANS), is software that ...