General availability and beta trials for the new products and software are expected by the last quarter of 2012, according to Cisco. Cisco's guarded embrace of SDN -- and its slowly-emerging "spin ...

who have built other Cisco products via this "spin-in" (as opposed to spin-off) method including Cisco's storage product and Cisco's server. But doing SDN as a spin-in was a controversial choice ...

Cisco is touting those products as an evolutionary step beyond current SDN products. Until now the company has been seen as lagging behind VMware and other rivals. But channel partners said Cisco ...