In a business environment dominated by cloud computing, mobility and Web-based applications, enterprises need smarter, application-aware networks to ensure performance. But while application awareness ...

Cisco Systems Inc. has today launched Application Oriented Networking, or AON, which Cisco claims will make computer networks smarter, faster and more secure. It does this, apparently, by making the ...

Engineer, entrepreneur and inventor Bob Metcalfe once described how the value of a network grew as the number of Ethernet cards increased. The concept also works for applications. While the cost of a ...