Service Providers

April 14, 2026

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Re-Architecting Asia Pacific Networks for the AI Economy

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For decades, the strategic mandate for the giants of Asia Pacific’s telecommunications sector was a straightforward exercise in brute force: expand coverage, increase capacity, and drive efficiency through massive scale. The operating assumption was that value was derived from the volume of…

October 27, 2022

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Cisco Helps SoftBank Corp. Build a More Sustainable Internet for the Future in Japan

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Japanese | English News Summary Softbank Corp. deploys Cisco pluggable optical transceivers in its metro area network to support 4G/5G, enterprise, and broadband services. Cisco and SoftBank are longstanding partners who have been collaborating to deploy state-of-the-art network architectures…

April 27, 2022

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Cisco Marks World’s First with the Deployment of SRv6 Flex-Algo on SoftBank Corp.’s 5G Commercial Network

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Japanese | English Agile and Advanced Traffic Engineering Enables SoftBank to Bring New Range of 5G Services to Market Cisco announced today that SoftBank Corp., a Japan-based operator that provides telecommunications services and combines them with advanced technologies to develop and operate…

April 25, 2022

SERVICE PROVIDERS

Cisco to Optimize Infrastructure of NTT Plala’s Video Streaming Service, “Hikari-TV” with Cisco Nexus and ACI

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Japanese | English Enabling Unified Management of System Monitoring and Operation with Scalability for Large Scale Services Cisco Systems G.K. announced today that NTT Plala Inc. adopted Cisco’s SDN Solution, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), and software management…