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Shruti Jain

Senior Analyst, SP Thought Leadership

Worldwide Service Provider Marketing Group

Shruti Jain is a senior analyst on Cisco’s SP thought leadership team that is responsible for developing and maintaining several global research and market intelligence initiatives. She has been one of the key contributors to Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI)—the company's ongoing effort to forecast and analyze the growth and use of the Internet and IP networks worldwide. She is also a leading analyst for Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI)—the company's ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic as well as analysis of trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing.  While Shruti has been involved in all facets of the above projects, her focus has been on identifying and analyzing trends related to internet and service adoption, evolution of smart/ multi-media devices and machine-to-machine connections, applications by vertical, mobile adoption of various generations of technologies including 2G to 5G and IoT specific LPWA, cord-cutting, SD, HD and UHD adoption of video, metro vs. edge analysis. On GCI, her areas of focus are growth in virtualization, workloads analysis by application, by data center type, cloud service delivery models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and public vs. private cloud.

Shruti is a Cisco veteran and has been with the company for over 20 years.  She started her career with the company as a financial analyst and then moved on to marketing, where she has had a variety of marketing analyst roles (supporting service provider segment and corporate marketing).  Shruti has had prior experience with Unisys as a financial analyst and worked as a marketing intern with Maruti Suzuki, an Indian car manufacturing company.  She has earned an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University, California and has M.A. in Economics from University of Rajasthan, India.  Her personal hobbies and interests include traveling, reading, learning new languages through TV shows and walking.

 

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February 26, 2019

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Mobile VNI Forecast 2017-2022: 5G emerges and is here to stay!!

The latest Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) 2017–2022 update forecasts that in the next four years we will see an emergence of 5G from field trials and limited deployment to a broader and more compelling cellular network technology of the future. We have seen a relatively consistent cycle…

December 4, 2018

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Global IP Networks Focus on Sharpening Their Edge

According to the latest VNI forecast, global service provider networks are getting edgier. By 2022, a third of service provider network capacity will be at the edge or within the metro, growing up from 27 percent in 2017.  While the capacity in core regional networks will be 24 percent (down from 25…

Global digitization – connecting homes, health, cities and what not!!

Strategize, Digitize, Analyze The latest Cisco VNI Complete Forecast update forecasts that for the first time in its 12-year history, there will be more M2M connections than end-user devices such as smartphones, laptops, TV sets, etc. By 2021, there will be 13.7 billion machine-to-machine (M2M) conn…

Imagining 5G: The Future Network of ”Things”. The Evolving Landscape of IoT and Wearables

The 2017 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts, for the first time, 5G connections and traffic. We estimate, there will be about 25 million global 5G-capable devices and connections by 2021 (representing 0.2 percent of total mobile devices and connections). Those 5G devices and connec…

February 7, 2017

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Predicting the impact of 5G. Mobile innovation will create new levels of bandwidth consumption

The 2017 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts that there will be about 25 million 5G capable devices and connections by 2021, which will generate 8.9 exabytes (EB) of annual mobile data traffic. Let’s compare that in context of the overall Mobile VNI Forecast. By 2021, there will be…

December 13, 2016

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Containers Hold an Agile Approach to Data Center Virtualization

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, container is a noun, and is defined as a receptacle for holding goods. Alternatively, it also means, a portable compartment in which freight is placed (as on a train or ship) for convenience of movement. In this blog, I’ll be talking about containers in t…

December 5, 2016

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Global Data Center Growth: Supporting the Next Data Deluge

Data centers house servers, physical or virtual, that provide storage, communications, and networking to the growing number of networked devices, users, and business processes in general. The growing importance of data analytics—the result of big data coming from ubiquitously networked end-user devi…

Comparing Generational Digital Footprint

It’s often said that “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” – and my “apple” has fallen very close to me. This summer, my 18-year-old daughter earned the opportunity to work as an intern at Cisco. As a 20-year Cisco veteran, my daughter’s internship inspired me to reflect on my career experiences in…

Game on!!!

This weekend, I evinced a big change in my youngest daughter. She emerged from her summer couch potato cocoon and blossomed into an active youngster chasing after fictional creatures in natural sunlight. Within 2 days of its launch, Pokémon Go had number of users almost at par with Twitter, the popu…