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Bob Everson

Global Director, Mobility and 5G

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Bob Everson is the Global Director of Mobility and 5G for Cisco Systems; leading strategy, business development, and go-to-market. In this role he works closely with customers around the world, and the Cisco development organization to ensure product and solution development aligns with the needs of customers and the market.

In addition, Everson is the lead for the Open vRAN ecosystem. This initiative was formed to accelerate innovation in and around the radio access network, and to accelerate the adoption of open, virtualized solutions.

Throughout his 25+ year career in technology, he has remained keenly focused on finding the intersection between innovative technologies and business drivers.

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October 22, 2019

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Open vRAN at MWC Los Angeles 2019

It seems that you can’t write about mobile without talking about 5G, and for good reason – what a year it has been! Launches around the globe have accelerated at a pace that is even faster than prior generations. While some deployments are larger scale, like we see in South Korea, many of thes…

February 21, 2019

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The Open vRAN Wave is Building

The Open vRAN movement started with some smaller waves and the anticipation of a larger wave to form. It was driven by a belief that the fundamental way that mobile networks have been built for decades needed to evolve and improve. Legacy architectures, that were useful in the past, have outlived th…

September 12, 2018

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Open vRAN Ecosystem – Enabling a Better Mobile Architecture

We launched the Open vRAN Ecosystem in February of this year with a vision to accelerate the viability and adoption of open virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and ensure their extension into a broader network architecture. We’ve had a busy six months architecting and building solutions, executing oper…