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Ben Colling

Manager, Sales

Global Service Provider, EMEAR

Ben has been at Cisco for 10 years, with all that time focused on working with Service Providers to build future-proof and profitable networks.

Following the Cisco graduate programme, Ben joined the BT account team, and for the last 7 years has been working across all major EMEAR-based Service Providers as a Routing and Optical Integration specialist.

Ben now manages an elite team of Consulting Systems Engineers, helping to architect 5G-ready Access and Aggregation solutions for our Service Provider customers.

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November 30, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Keeping Up with the Video Streaming Binge-Watchers

Video streaming services are hugely popular, with more and more people determined to stay up to date with the latest series. But for service providers, the challenge is to keep up in a different sense. Because over-the-top (OTT) video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube account for an increa…

November 29, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

What’s the Real Business Value of 5G?

Meeting the cost of 5G is major talking point at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year. According to a major German operator, the cost of supplying Europe with 5G connections could be anything between €300 billion and €500 billion . This is a major challenge. Because 5G technology is going to ma…

November 27, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

5G Networking: Who’s in the Driving Seat?

Our new solution is a cost-effective route to reliable 5G connections – and the innovative services they make possible Over the next years, people will increasingly expect 5G connections and the types of service they can support. And this will lead to increasing demands on service provider networks.…

November 24, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Mind the Gap: 5G Network Strategy Ahead

A new solution that uses plug-in technology makes it cost-effective to deploy segment routing across the whole network The pressure on service providers is rapidly increasing. Globally, demands for bandwidth are doubling every 18 months and the number of devices being used to connect to the internet…

November 22, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The Future of Telecom Networks: Programmed to Succeed

When it comes to creating fast, flexible, on-demand services, programmability is key Programmability is an exciting area of network technology that creates a world of new agile services for service providers. It’s immensely powerful because it decouples the services themselves from the underlying ha…

November 21, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Endless Reasons to be 5G Ready

By 2022 the number of 5G subscribers will be big… and growing fast. Are you ready for the next revolution? Multiple industry reports, including Cisco Visual Networking Index, highlights the growth of 5G technology, and how it will transform the way we use the internet. On average we expect there wil…