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Alison Izard

Marketing Manager

Alison is a marketing manager with the Service Provider Cloud, Infrastructure & Business Solutions team. Her area of expertise is network management software, where she has more than 16 years of experience working and consulting for companies including InfoVista, Qovia, Ipswitch, CITTIO and RiverMuse. Prior to joining Cisco, Alison had her own product/digital marketing agency, where she consulted with a broad range of B2B and B2C clients. Although the core of her professional experience is in product/digital marketing, she’s also worked in product management, technical training and instructional systems design.

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October 12, 2017

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Join us for the Remote PHY Seminar at the 2017 SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo

Remote PHY, the industry’s best bet technology for boosting performance, increasing capacity, reducing costs, and simplifying network operations, is the subject of a must-see seminar at this year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo. Featuring Cisco Fellow and Cable CTO John Chapman, who played a central role…

September 26, 2017

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Transforming Experiences: See You in October at 2017 SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo

Fall has arrived, which means the 2017 SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver, Colorado is just around the corner. This year’s program is packed full of some great learning opportunities and we are pleased to have so many Cisco folks involved this year – presenting, leading workshops and moderating pane…

Join us in Colorado at the 2017 CableLabs Summer Conference

In just a few weeks, we’ll be at the 2017 CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, Colorado to demonstrate DOCSIS FDX. The agenda for this year’s conference has some fantastic keynote speakers and sessions featuring the latest technical developments in the industry. To find out more, visit the Cable…

Innovative Technology: A Blueprint of Cisco’s Transport Network Modernization Solution

Written By Christian Schmutzer, Principal Engineer at Cisco The idea behind Cisco’s Transport Network Modernization solution is simple: allow a single, packet-oriented network to support both connectionless and connection-oriented services concurrently. A number of technology innovations were requi…

Drive Down Cable Network Complexity and Operating Costs

Double Digit Spend with Single-Digit Growth Across North America, cable operators face the same challenge of driving down network complexity and operating costs. The math is simple, how can they continue to spend in the double digits to support bandwidth demands, while only recouping single digit re…

Cisco at ANGA 2017: There’s Never Been A Better Time To Transform Your Network

In a little less than a month, the 2017 ANGA COM Conference will kick off and this year’s Congress Agenda is packed full of great panel discussions and topics, including Cisco Service Provider leader Yvette Kanouff and Cisco Fellow and Cable CTO John Chapman. If you haven’t already made plans to att…

OFC 2017 Demo: Cisco 400GbE Optical Module

Written by Ray Nering, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco We’re excited to announce that Cisco will have two demonstrations of the QSFP-DD form factor at OFC 2017. The QSFP-DD standard is important because it supports the continued growth in network bandwidth demand and datacenter traffic, by quadrupl…

OFC 2017: Service Lifecycle Management in Action

You have enough on your plate – trying to operate your network while figuring out a plan on how to migrate all of your TDM circuits to IP, and your budget probably isn’t growing either. At next week’s OFC in Los Angeles, we’re excited to show you the latest innovations in our service lifecycle manag…

Cisco at OFC 2017: There’s Never Been A Better Time To Transform Your Network

Wow! OFC is going to be another really great event this year. If you’re like me, you already have a busy schedule planned, there are just so many great speakers, sessions, and workshops available to choose from – including some excellent sessions and topics featuring Cisco’s own Bill Gartner, Ron Jo…