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Brian Walsh

Senior Marketing Manager

Brian Walsh has 25+ years experience in marketing, business development, and product management for multinational corporations in the Information & Communications Technology industry. His current role at Cisco is as Senior Marketing Manager in SP Mobility Marketing, focusing on Mobile Internet Monetization and Internet of Things. Previously he worked at Genuity, Digital Equipment Corporation, Cullinet Software, and the Yankee Group. His has extensive international experience with a 3-year European relocation, and engagements in over 50 countries.

Brian holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

 

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Meraki-Powered Managed WiFi for Small Businesses

  Blog post authored by Imran Idrees, Portfolio Marketing Manager at Cisco Meraki   We live in a time when most of us comfortably carry enough computing power in our pockets to simultaneously send multiple space missions to the moon and back. With such nonchalant and constant access to pow…

October 25, 2017

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Cisco Delivers High Quality Wi-Fi Network Connectivity for Mobile World Congress Americas, in Partnership with CTIA

So we’re a few weeks after the very first Mobile World Congress Americas (MWCA), and it’s interesting to look back and see how the event matched up to expectations. For an inaugural event, MWCA had some hits and some misses. We held some very interesting customer meetings. The Innovation…

September 6, 2017

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Cisco Joins GSMA Open IoT Lab Initiative

Cisco is pleased to announce that the Cisco Milan Innovation Center (MIC) located in Vimercate, Italy has joined the GSMA Open IoT Lab initiative. The MIC is one of Cisco’s centers of innovation and technical expertise for Cisco’s mobility network solutions for Service Providers. These solutions inc…

September 5, 2017

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Operators Can Bridge the Gap for New IoT Revenues

The market for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks, particularly NB-IoT and CAT-M1, is heating up. More and more Mobile Network Operators are engaged in trials or have already launched commercial services. Manufacturers are adding NB-IoT and CAT-M1 support to their sensors, modules, and devices. To…

Cisco Powers Wi-Fi Network at MWC 2017

Catching up on emails some two months after the event, I finally got a look at the impressive Wi-Fi network metrics from Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017, where Cisco again worked with the GSMA to successfully provide one of the world’s largest carrier-grade Wi-Fi networks. During the event at…

Service Provider IoT Solutions Can Drive Digitization

IoT adoption is growing. Cities are becoming smarter by optimizing parking revenues, waste management and collection routing, street lighting operations, and more. Airlines use real-time aircraft, airport, and weather sensor data to improve operations. As organizations embrace IoT to transform their…

My buddy the building: The incredible potential of connected premises

An intelligent building that reacts to the movements and behavior of its inhabitants might sound like the opening scenes of a sci-fi movie. But it’s not. And it could open up a whole new world of opportunities for service providers. The connected workplace  offers countless possibilities. Imagine an…

In the driving seat: How service providers can monetize smart cities

Service providers (SPs) hold the key to successful smart city projects by managing the essential network connectivity. But there can be confusion over how best to monetize these ambitious initiatives. Urbanization is at the center of 21st century life. Just over half of the world’s population lives…

Cisco’s IoT Cloud Platform Helps Hugo Go ‘Round the World

At first it was Verne’s Phileas Fogg, then Monty Python’s Michael Palin, and now it is Telefonica’s Hugo Scagnetti to join the ranks of those brave adventurers attempting to go around the world in 80 days. However, there is no wager from the Reform Club, or a BBC TV series in the works here, but rat…