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Dominic Elliott

Chief Technology Officer

Global Service Provider - Northern Europe

Dominic has been working in the telecoms industry since 1988, working in design, operations and latterly sales on some of the world’s biggest and most complex networks.

He has worked at Cisco since 1997, holding a variety of technical roles; he was responsible for the development, design and deployment of the Cisco solutions that underpinned the growth of key technologies in the development of the Internet in the UK.

Having worked on the development of IP NGN capabilities across the world with both challengers and incumbents, Dominic is the chief technology officer for Service Providers in Northern Europe. Currently, he’s focused on the transition to Software Defined Networks across enterprise and consumer networks, and is driving the development of Cisco’s SP strategy in SDN.

Articles

February 10, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

How Cisco is Paving the Way for the Internet for the Future

I guess it was a happy coincidence that the day I travelled to Cisco Live in Barcelona, LinkedIn informed the world that I had been with Cisco for 23 years. Before that,  I was in the ‘Ciscoverse’ for around 5 years working as a customer and partner. The notification made me reflect not only on how…

November 14, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Size Shouldn’t Matter! SME’s Get Bite Through the Cloud

I have a dog, he is a small dog, he wasn’t supposed to be, and he doesn’t see himself as small! He is fast, agile and has the heart of an Alsatian! Just as Bolt  makes up for his small size with speed and agility, cloud can do the same thing for Small Medium Enterprises (SME). By their nature SMEs a…

October 15, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

All the Right Moves? Making Sense of the Digital Opportunity

Making the right moves in the Service Provider (SP) Infrastructure market right now is a tricky business. On one side of the market sits the consumer living their best digital life with high-end devices and a constellation of apps that require bandwidth and availability. In the words of a great Scot…

No Network, No Cloud

I’ve been working on software-defined networking opportunities over the past five years or so, and it continues to amaze me how many enterprise network departments are only embarking on the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) journey because they are either told to do so by analysts or because of perceive…