Network management has been a source of frustration for Cisco for years. CEO John Chambers annually seems to lament the state of Cisco network management (compare LAN/WAN management tools) when he’s ...

Cisco last month gave customers a sneak peek at a new network management tool for deploying multiple network functions on the Catalyst 6500 platform. Cisco last month gave customers a sneak peek at a ...

There hasn’t been much differentiation among the services available from providers with Multi-protocol Label Switching networks yet. One reason is that the operations, administration and maintenance ...

A big network is a complex system that generates a very large volume of data: log messages, network state data, device state data, device configurations, interface performance data, and application ...

We explore how artificial intelligence is being integrated into network management tools, and the challenges it presents.