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Greg Smith

Marketing Manager

Service Provider Routing & Switching

Greg Smith is a Marketing Manager in the Service Provider organization for Cisco Systems. In this role he is involved in both inbound and outbound marketing for Cisco’s routing and switching products (in particular the ASR 9000 Series) and is currently focused on the industry transition to IPv6. Greg’s team has twice won BtoB Magazine’s Social Media Marketing Award. Prior to joining the marketing department he spent five years in the Boston and New York City offices as a Systems Engineer selling IP NGN solutions to emerging and competitive providers. Before joining Cisco, Greg held various software development and product marketing roles in the networking and telecommunications industry.

Greg has earned a BSEE from Auburn University, an MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Diplôme de Spécialision in Telecommunications from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité in Metz, France.

Although a native of Silicon Valley, Mr. Smith now lives in southern New Hampshire with his wife and three children.

Articles

October 14, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

South Korea’s SK Broadband Improving the User Experience with Cisco cBR-8

Written By Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing A year ago, SK Broadband announced the world’s first 10 Gbps Internet service at the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference. This innovative new service was 100 times faster than existing services, which routinely deliver download speeds o…

October 13, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Validating Cisco Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI)

Service Providers seeking to reduce operating expenses, deliver new services rapidly, are looking to SDN (Software Defined Networking) and virtualization technologies. Earlier this year, Light Reading and EANTC published an evaluation of Cisco’s virtualization and cloud solution, including multivend…

October 13, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco’s Packet Optical Network Conference Comes to Rome

Guest blog by Leonard Luna, Marketing Manager, Cisco This year’s fall Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) convenes on November 3 and 4, 2015 in Rome Italy. Cisco executives and technology experts will convene in the “Eternal City” to present Cisco’s strategy and vision to help service provid…

Simplifying Cable Plant Operations with SDN and DOCSIS 3.1

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Carriers are continually challenged to deliver on the customer experience. One of the benefits of Cisco’s cBR-8 Evolved CCAP is the built-in telemetry, programmability, and DOCSIS 3.1 support of the platform. This makes it ideal for gigabi…

Enivest and Cisco Deploy a DWDM Network at Light Speed

Guest blog by Dan Crawford, Marketing Manager, Cisco In the western Scandinavian fjords of Norway, Enivest an internet service provider has deployed a new optical transport network using a Cisco optical network solution (NCS 2000). While this, in itself, may not be big news to most people, the real…

September 30, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

DOCSIS 3.1: Driving Cable to Software Defined Networking

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Optical transport has been transformed as integrated high-performance Digital Signal Processing has enabled vendors such as Cisco to squeeze more capacity at greater distances than ever before. Advanced modulation techniques and Forward E…

September 24, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco cBR-8: Re-imagining CCAP with SDN

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing In an age of agile service creation with a virtualized IT infrastructure, the delivery of services by cable operators is undergoing a transformation. Two key technologies that are fueling this change are Software Defined Networking (SDN)…

September 2, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Next Stop Dallas: Learn How to Automate, Optimize, and Transform your Service Delivery

Guest blog by Ram , SP Infrastructure Marketing Manager Service providers everywhere are trying to simplify their networks – moving services to the cloud that are easier to roll out, can be provisioned by the customer, and enable new business models. Cisco’s virtual managed service (vMS) solution us…

Agility. Simplicity. Efficiency.

Cisco EPN Manager for Service Providers Guest blog by Alison O’Brien, Marketing Manager Following-up on the recent successful announcement of the Evolved Programmable Network Manager application (EPN Manager), we caught up with JL Valente, Vice President of Product Management for Cisco’s Cloud…