Cisco CFO Kelly Kramer talks to CRN about white-box networking, public cloud providers, security growth and Cisco increasing its channel investment dollars in 2016.

During the last financial quarter, Cisco saw sales of its network switches grow 11 percent over the same period a year earlier. More specifically, revenues for its Nexus 3000 and Nexus 9000 ...

"Cisco must have bought Scientific Atlanta for some reason other than traditional set-top box market. And it's tangential to the router/switch business." ...

The CEO of software-defined networking specialist Pica8 claims Cisco's switches and ACI platform have greater security risks than white-box, bare-metal switches because they are closed.

Call it the March of the White Brigade. Sales of white box switches outpaced the Ethernet switch market as a whole in 2013, which was a record year for switch sales, according to Dell’Oro Group.