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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

Making sense of Service Provider Virtualization

Guest blog by Greg Nehib, SP Product and Solutions Marketing I like to think of virtualization as an expanded networking toolkit, providing us with additional options to get the job done. It’s almost like when cordless tools entered the consumer tool market. You could take the cordless tools anywher…

How Important are Physical Routers in the move toward Virtualization?

Guest blog by Greg Nehib, SP Product and Solutions Marketing How important are physical routers in the move toward virtualization? My one word response would be “very”. But the longer version would start with “it depends”. Here’s the longer version: It depends on your perspective. I remember when th…

Making Applications and Network Infrastructure Talk

Guest blog by Frederic Trate, SP Product and Solutions Marketing One may say this is a topic the telecom industry has been working on for many years and that’s somewhat true. Remember the time when routing protocols and QoS (Quality of Service) mechanisms were the only tools at Service Provider’s di…

A Groundbreaking Study in Service Provider Cloud Managed Business Solutions

Last week at Mobile World Congress was incredibly busy and there were many compelling announcements. In case you missed it one that we’re especially excited about was about how Light Reading commissioned the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) as an independent party to validate Cisco’s…

Cisco Live Milan: Service Provider Business Transformation Straight Ahead

Guest blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco Live Milan 2015 has just concluded and concluded with a bang of record-breaking attendance and increased customers’ understanding of the IoE and service provider Technologies. In my first post-show blog, I focused on the overall boot…

Join Cisco In Paris for Innovation Overload: MPLS SDN World Congress 2015, NFV& SDN 2015, and V6 World Congress 20 …

By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing It’s not too late to meet us in Paris for arguably one of the most important technology innovation shows in all of Europe during 2015. If you’re delivering or planning to offer cloud services from an Evolved Programmable Network…

February 18, 2015

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Making Programmable Networks Easier to Achieve (and for Free!)

The “P” in EPN stands for “Programmable,” as in “Evolved Programmable Network” and Cisco has just made the “P” easier to achieve to help drive services to the cloud. We’ve now contributed Basic ConfD, a free version of our powerful ConfD by Tail-f management agent software to the networking industry…

February 5, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Fiber. Great In Your Diet. Costly In Your Data Center.

Guest Blog by Pat Chou, TMG Product Manager Since the introduction of the Cisco’s 40G QSFP BiDi (Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable Bidirectional module), we’ve seen phenomenal growth and adoption. I guess people do see the benefit. What’s that? You haven’t heard? …Ok, let’s say you’re in charge of a…