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Kevin Wollenweber

Vice President, Product Management

Service Provider Network Systems

Kevin is Vice President of Product Management in the Service Provider Network Systems business at Cisco. In this role, he leads the product management team for the networking/routing portfolio aimed at the SP segment and has been with Cisco since 1997. As the product management leader for Cisco’s Service Provider Routing portfolio, Kevin is focused on how industry and technologies are transforming and evolving Cisco’s products and solutions to help customers address their business challenges. During his 22 years at Cisco, Kevin has driven a number of industry-leading transitions across a breadth of Cisco products and technologies. His work has included positions in product management, technical marketing, and software engineering, but he has always focused on the needs of the world’s largest Service Providers. Kevin has led the delivery of flagship Service Provider routing products such as the GSR, CRS, ASR and NCS families and is focused on continuous delivery of innovation and efficiency across the Service Provider routing portfolio. Throughout it all, Kevin has worked closely with the many providers to help them build world-class networks that deliver revenue growth opportunities and operational efficiency, while mitigating risk across hardware, software, and systems. Kevin has his Master’s of Science and Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University and has held a Routing and Switching CCIE. When he isn’t working or traveling, he spends his time mountain biking, golfing and spending time with his family.

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January 23, 2020

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco 8000 Series Powering the Internet for the Future

On December 11th 2019, Cisco announced a set of new offerings – silicon, optics, software, and routing systems – specifically designed to power the Internet for the future. In my time at Cisco, I’ve had the privilege of launching a few notable routing systems – the ASR 9000, the NCS 6000…

December 11, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco Goes SONiC on New Networking Platforms

Cisco has collaborated closely with Microsoft to drive large scale networking. Today, at the launch of Cisco Silicon One and the Cisco 8000, we are happy to share progress we have made together on the fundamental building blocks of open networking. In in 2016, to address the requirements of r…

December 6, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

SRv6 is coming

Segment Routing MPLS customer adoption is truly outstanding. As of today, we count more than 30 live deployments and about 80 deployments are planned. The pace of adoption for SRv6 will be even faster. Let me expand on why I’m making this bet. IPv6 connectivity is getting more pervasiv…