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Cisco Culture is Alive and Thriving in the Service Provider Team
During a recent company meeting, our Chairman and CEO, Chuck Robbins was asked, “What are some of the things that make you most proud?” I was very touched when he responded that he is most satisfied when the world experiences the “hearts and minds” of our people at Cisco. He went on to highlight how…
Cisco NCS 5500 Welcomes 400GE and Doubles Installed Base
I recently had the good fortune to spend time with some of our big Service Provider customers. On the way back from my trip, I had time to reflect on the tectonic shifts that will play out in the SP market over the coming years, and how Cisco’s own investment in architectures, systems, silicon, and…
5G Converged IP Transport: Get the Lowdown on Total Cost of Ownership(TCO)
Today, many Service Providers face stalled growth, shifting demands from the consumer market to the enterprise market, increasing regulatory pressures, and mounting competition. As a result, they are seeking new ways to fund and deploy their 5G infrastructure to capture new customers. However in ord…
Trusted Infrastructure in a 5G World
As I reflect on Mobile World Congress, what an incredible event as we explored innovation that will shape humanity made possible with 5G. User Endpoint (UE) that will transform healthcare, manufacturing, smart cities and more is not just about mobility connectivity, but about critical infrastructur…
5G IP Transport – A Strategic Opportunity for Service Providers
The race to 5G is intensifying as exemplified by a number of public announcements made by leading mobile operators. However, deeper conversations with service providers yield a very simple but important question. How will we make the investments in 5G upgrades profitable? The bet is that 5G technol…
Digital Communications in India: Global Aspirations, Local Economics
When I left India to work in the US (1997), little did I realize that I would reconnect with her in a way unimaginable then! At the time, less than 1% of India’s population had access to the Internet at home. Since then, Internet connectivity in India has exploded, growing to 426 million users as o…
Cisco ASR 9000 Reloaded For Mass Scale Networking
The wide-spread adoption of the Internet is simply phenomenal. 2018 marks the year where the number of Internet users has surpassed half of the world’s population with 3.6B users. And, according to Cisco VNI, IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent from 2016 to 202…
DDoS Mitigation for Modern Peering
DDoS understandably makes for a lot of headlines and is the source of genuine concern on the modern Internet. For example, the recent memcached attacks were remarkable for the volume of traffic generated through amplification (1.7Tbps) and are the latest reminder that a well-designed network edge ne…
Cisco NCS 5500 Sees Strong Customer Momentum
It has been two years since we started shipping our cloud-scale networking products. The Cisco NCS 5500 Series was specifically designed to be a scalable, low-power consumption, and cost-optimized 100G routing platform, with a path to 400G. The NCS 5500 product family is built to meet the massive b…
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