Ben Bekele
Director Prouduct Management
Articles
What is the role of NFV and SDN in Digital Transformation?
Digitization of communication service providers(CSPs) starts with SDN and NFV. But they are facing a lot of challenges as they transform their network and operations to meet the demands of becoming a digital service provider. Adoption has been slow. Most of them are stuck in proof of concept stage w…
New ICT Opportunities with ITaaS
Digital Transformation is transforming businesses and our lives everywhere. The first step in your digital transformation journey is understanding what it means to your industry. For communication service providers(CSP), it means using technology to radically improve performance and reach of service…
Handy Tips from your SP Peers – Top 10 SDN/NFV Transformation Challenges
As part of our SDN and NFV study, we asked service providers what they considered to be their biggest challenges in their transformation. We have synthesized their responses and will share some of the top ones with you here. We assumed that the top challenges your peers faced would be technology foc…
Learnings from Operators SDN and NFV Transformation Study
Service providers are transforming their business using NFV based services and SDN enabled networks. But the pace of transformation has been slow. To find out why, Cisco recently conducted a study to understand the progress and challenges that SPs are facing as they go through SDN and NFV transforma…
Seeking a Clear Path to SDN & NFV?
Everyone knows that Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technologies are key to future Service Provider(SP) success. But how to get there is something that most service providers are struggling with. I was at SCTE/ISBE conference in Philly last week, which is…
Unleash the power of partners – your channel to new cloud revenue
Many service providers have yet to tap into the full business potential of IT-as-a-service. If they’re willing to invest the time developing the relationship with their channel partners, the returns could be considerable. The dramatic growth of cloud services isn’t a new concept to service providers…
Subscribers want it all, and they’re willing to pay for it
New cloud-based video experiences like cloud digital video recorder, TV everywhere, and streaming video-on-demand sound great on paper. But will subscribers actually pay for them? The answer is a resounding yes – to the tune of nearly an $11 increase in monthly revenues per user globally (and almost…
The biggest cost cut you can make right now? Virtualize your video
As cloud-based solutions continue to proliferate, it’s clear that the virtualized video revolution has already begun. How much of your video infrastructure still relies on dedicated appliances? Today, a growing number of pay TV providers are taking a different approach. By virtualizing key functions…
The Need For Speed: Fast and personalized is the way to go!
As consumers, we gravitate to any retailer that personalizes our experience. Netflix and Amazon did it with recommendations and others are following suit. My twelve-year-old son and I recently got new Garmin smart-watches for Christmas – the Forerunner 620 and 630. We created workout plans, set our…