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Clearing the Fog Around Automation
Our last blogs highlighted the success factors for SDN & NFV transformation and the three pathways to Service Provider (SP) transformation. Many of you have responded to the results of the study. While the research was a qualitative look at issues facing SPs as they adopt NFV and SDN, we will fo…
Delivering a New and Improved Online World
Service provider networks are at the epicenter of digitization, affecting how businesses and entire industries will operate for years to come. Today it seems as if every disruptive new business model shaking up an industry is reliant on the innovative use of applications based on network services.…
All Hail (and Support) Open Source!
At this year’s Open Networking Summit, there was a touch of nostalgia looking back to how far the open source community has come since Bill Joy worked on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) version of Unix in the late 1970s. There was also an implicit challenge to the IT industry: Offer more in…
Building Jio Scale
The term web-scale has been with us just a few years. Mainly referring to managing a data center infrastructure with capabilities to scale in size, speed and agility, it has usually been associated with large cloud service firms such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix. It has not been associated…
Automate and Simplify Your Operations – Cisco NSO Leads the Way
Change is never easy. And network management teams are facing unprecedented change as Service Providers are under pressure from their enterprise customers to deliver and support more agile service offerings. New technology innovations like programmable networks and network functions virtualization (…
Game over. Automation Scores Huge Upset against Operational Costs.
When significant real-world ROI results come in from the field, we’re excited to share them. Some recent proof points from our service provider customers are especially compelling. Why? Because they’re about one of your biggest challenges―reducing high operational costs. Big Reductions in OpEx Confi…
Let’s Talk Simply About SD-WANs, Shall We?
If “talk nerdy to me” were to be elevated to an art form, then at Cisco, we’re Rembrandt! Following a recent article suggesting that our naming convention(s) for our line of Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) is confusing — I’d go so far as to say “drowning in six-letter acronyms and…
Cisco NFV Infrastructure Solution – Carrier Class Network Functions Virtualization
Written By Volker Tegtmeyer, Senior Manager Product & Solution Marketing The adoption of Network Functions Virtualization is a top item on every Service Providers’ agenda. Agility, Flexibility and Cost Reductions are the drivers pushing for network transformation. Cisco is announcing Cisco NFV I…
Telemetry & Gaining Web Scale Operational Efficiency – Is it a Myth or Reality?
We can’t express how excited we were when Cisco was asked to sponsor and participate in an independent event, hosted by Tech Field Day, which invited experts from NetFlix, Google, eBay, and SignalFX to discuss the technical challenges some of these web scale providers face and the innovations they h…