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Brian Meaney

Distinguished Systems Engineer

Global Service Provider (GSP) Sales

Brian Meaney is the EMEAR Service Provider CTO, responsible for covering all Tier 1 and Tier 2 Global Service Provider accounts. His specific area of focus is architectural transformation, where he leads technical programs relating to Transport, Service Edge, Virtualisation, Data Centre, Orchestration, Mobile and Business Services domains. In more recent times, Brian has specialized in area’s such as SDN, NFV/Cloud and more recently 5G/MEC technologies.

Brian has built his career in the networking industry for over 20 years, holding various technical positions within network vendors including Ericsson, where he spent a period of six years working as a Technical Consultant within the International Consultancy Division, specializing in Mobile and Wireline deployments across Europe and the US.

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Orchestration and Automation Solutions for the 5G Era

In our previous blog, we looked at how Cisco can help service providers (SPs) deliver high-quality 5G solutions to their enterprise customers. We now continue the story by focusing on two important 5G-network enablers: automation and orchestration. In the light of today’s changing market trends, thi…

Making 5G a winning experience for service providers

With a saturated consumer market and average revenue-per-user flat or declining, it’s clear that operators must target vertical markets to accelerate business growth. However, when it comes to finding the right partner to deploy 5G-based services for these vertical markets – specifically the enterpr…