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Michael Glickman

Senior Vice President

Global Service Provider

Michael Glickman is Senior Vice President and leader of the Global Service Provider Segment. He and his team are responsible for Cisco's Service Provider strategy, creating and driving innovative offers and sales motions on a global basis, and providing a consistent experience for customers, partners, and field teams.

Glickman and his team are charged with defining one global operating model for the Service Provider Segment, building and orchestrating the business, and scaling capabilities to deliver sales success. This includes offers to Service Providers utilized to build out their networks and services, and also those fueling Cisco's go-to-market relationship with Service Providers as a Channel.

During his long tenure at Cisco, Glickman has held a variety of leadership positions in Sales and Marketing. Prior to his current role, he led the relationships with Hyper-Scale players, U.S. Telecommunications companies, Latin American Service Providers, Wireline Emerging Providers, and U.S. Cable operators.

Glickman has over 25 years of experience in the technology marketplace, which has included responsibilities in Sales, Marketing, and Finance. He joined Cisco from Amdahl Corporation (Fujitsu America) where he was Vice President and General Manager for Northeastern Operations, with profit-and-loss responsibility for all operations in that region.

Outside of Cisco, Glickman serves on several industry boards including CTIA and NAF and sits on the Executive Board of Junior Achievement in New Jersey.

Glickman holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from the University of Illinois.

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Giving Back with Time and Paint

One of the great things about Cisco is our spirit of giving back. We have a goal to positively impact 1 billion lives by 2025, and we are all asked to give something of ourselves. Recently, a group of us took this to heart. Leaders from across Cisco’s Service Provider business – including my leaders…

Protecting Small Businesses from Malicious Attacks through Managed Service Providers

Managed services are a key opportunity for service providers to increase their customer relevance, boost customer lifetime value, and grow top-line revenues. One of our passions in Cisco’s Service Provider team is working with our partners to develop differentiated services which expand the business…

February 28, 2019

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MWC Series: Readying Fastweb’s Network for the 5G Era

This year at Mobile World Congress 2019, we shared the news of our partnership with Fastweb on a network modernization project that will enhance the capabilities and performances of Fastweb fiber-based network. This project will put the Italy-based operator in the right position to meet the growing…

February 26, 2019

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MWC Series: Mobily and ITC Select Cisco to Build State-of-the-Art Network to Support Future Growth

There is another exciting partnership in the works for Cisco. We have partnered with Saudi National Fiber Network (SNFN) Partners, Etihad Etisalat “Mobily”, Bayant Al-Ola, and Integrated Telecom Company “ITC”, on a project to modernize and upgrade SNFN network to prepare for the next phase of growth…

February 26, 2019

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MWC Series: Building a Unified Cloud Across Multiple Data Centers with du

Application innovation is at the heart of United Arab Emirate’s digital economy and country transformation. A new era of applications is redefining what data centers are and what they need to support. Today, the data center is no longer a fixed place; it needs to exist wherever data is created, proc…

February 25, 2019

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MWC Series: Etisalat UAE and Cisco announced the first Self-Driving Internet Peering Network for Middle East and Africa

We at Cisco have successfully achieved a key milestone with Etisalat UAE which is to deploy the first segment routing technology in the region over its international network with closed-loop automation. Together, we are introducing automation and software-defined networking (SDN) to the service prov…

February 24, 2019

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MWC Series: Ultra Packet Core with CUPS to Deliver 5G Broadband Services for STC

In Saudi Arabia, the strong growth in mobile users, smartphones, mobile video consumption and IoT connections are projected to significantly increase mobile data traffic over the next five years. At a global level, Cisco forecasts that 5G will account for 1.5 percent of total mobile data traffic by…

February 24, 2019

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MWC Series: STC Adopts Big Data and SDN Analytics Solution to Ramp Up Security

As malware becomes increasing malicious, and cyberattacks proliferate on a global scale, protection against cybersecurity threats is now vital for service providers. According to the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study, 87% of companies in EMEAR admitted they had suffered a cyberattack…

February 24, 2019

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MWC Series: New Cybersecurity and Network Management Services for the Digital Transformation of Italian Companies

A year ago, at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, we shared that we were partnering up with TIM to accelerate the digitization of Italian companies with TIM Safe Web. This year at Mobile World Congress 2019, we shared that we are extending that value with new managed network services and mobil…