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Jonathan Davidson

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Cisco Mass-Scale Infrastructure

Jonathan was named Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group in March 2020. He leads an organization that builds silicon, optics, hardware, software, and systems innovations for the largest and most advanced networks in the world.

Prior to this role, Jonathan was named Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Service Provider Business in August 2018. He led the team to deliver industry leading technologies for the Internet and 5G (routing systems, IOS XR software, automation, and solutions for fixed, cable, and mobile providers). Jonathan re-joined Cisco in March 2017 as Sr. Vice President and General Manager of Service Provider Networking. In that role, he drove Cisco's leadership position in next-generation routing and network automation.

Prior to rejoining Cisco, Jonathan served as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks leading its Engineering and Product Management. In that role, he was responsible for driving strategy, development and business growth for the company's entire portfolio including routing, switching and security, as well as leading the ongoing evolution of silicon technology and the Junos operation system.

Before Juniper, Jonathan held a variety of leadership positions at Cisco over the course of 15 years. During that time, he developed service provider solutions and led the enterprise routing product management team and service provider Layer 4 through Layer 7 services team.

Jonathan is co-author of the best-selling book, "Voice-over IP Fundamentals," and is a frequent speaker at high-profile industry events. Active on social media, he frequently shares his observations and insights about the industry through Twitter and blogs.

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May 15, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Riding the Wave at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress

What an event! Special thanks to all of our customers, partners and the amazing Cisco team for a great week at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris. We were able to engage with many Service Providers, hyper-scale Web 2.0 companies and the largest Enterprises, presenting Cisco’s vision of a fun…

April 5, 2018

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Reimagining the Network

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress is almost here, and what a great forum it is for those interested in learning about and understanding the software-defined wave. The conference, taking place in Paris, gathers a broad group of industry experts from Hyperscale providers, Telcos, Enterprises, Universities a…

February 20, 2018

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Cisco Crosswork Network Automation: The Industry’s Most Comprehensive Closed-Loop Automation Solution

Today, Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers.  We are very excited about creating the industry’s most comprehensive closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution that embraces multi-vendor networks. …

February 16, 2018

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SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Automating the Future

It has been almost a year since I rejoined Cisco. The one question I have been asked hundreds of times by co-workers, former co-workers, employees, reporters and others is: “Why did you go back?” By way of background, I spent 15 formative years at Cisco, starting in Tech Support and moving thr…

November 27, 2017

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Verizon Partner Solutions Announces SD-WAN Managed Service Availability for its Wholesale Customers

By 2020 it is expected we will see a 4X cloud traffic increase, half of connected devices will be machine-to-machine, and 9X more video traffic flowing across service provider networks. The blending of these dynamics leads to a sizable economic opportunity for service providers over the next decade…

September 27, 2017

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Simplifying Networks through Segment Routing

The networking industry is going through an incredibly dynamic time of change and opportunity. Global IP traffic will increase nearly threefold over the next five years and 127-fold from 2005 to 2021.  The number of devices connected to IP networks by 2021 will be three times higher than the global…

June 8, 2017

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Segment Routing Blazes a Trail in Germany!

Picture this, by 2021, there will be 4.6 billion global Internet users, 27.1 billion networked devices and connections, and 82 percent of all IP traffic will be video, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. What’s even more amazing is that more members of the global population (7.8 billion ac…