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Deliver 5G services today – at the speed of “CLICK”
See us at Mobile World Congress – Americas in San Francisco, Sept. 12-14 We recently published a blog discussing the ability to implement 5G in a way that made good financial sense. The point is that 5G is very much about enabling new services and that can only be done with the right network founda…
Automation and Big Networks: The More, The Better
Recently I had the good fortune to be invited to address a Light Reading BCE audience in Austin, where the theme was the future of big networks. There was plenty of discussion, as you might imagine, about software defined networks/SDNs, network function virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligen…
Cisco Containerized, Virtualized IOS XR Software Continues to Move the Industry Forward
As we head to MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress this week, I’m reminded of conversations I have with Service Providers all the time. They tell me how they need complete solutions to meet their business needs, not just a slice of a technology stack. They tell me they want software that supports an en…
Networking Industry Leader Joins Our Service Provider Networking Team
I am pleased to share some great news! After months of discussion, today networking industry leader Jonathan Davidson is joining our Service Provider Business Unit and my senior leadership team as SVP/GM – SP Networking. Having served as executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Devel…
Cisco @MWC: Innovation and Customer Momentum Announcements
At MWC, we are making a dozen innovation and customer momentum announcements including 5G Trials with Verizon. Last week, Verizon announced it will deliver 5G service to pilot customers in 11 markets across the U.S. by mid-2017, and today we announced that we will be a key technology supplier for t…
Cisco@MWC: New Capabilities, Services & Customers, Setting the Foundation for 5G
Global leaders in wireless are here in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the gathering place for top-of-mind topics like architecting and building cloud-based service and IoT offerings – all while positioning for the inevitable shift to 5G. Cisco is here, showing off new technologies and solution…
Cloud Scale Networking, Finding Common Ground
We launched Cloud Scale Networking about a year ago to address the initial wave of software and hardware innovations that were built to enable co-development with Web Scale companies. Last July I offered my views on how Service Providers can thrive in the future. Since that time I have had the privi…
Service Providers, There’s Never Been a Better Time
I have been privileged throughout my career to work with and for service providers. And these days, it’s particularly exciting to be a service provider. Nearly every aspect of our lives is being impacted by the explosion of IP devices, apps and services. We believe this creates a $2 trillion oppor…
Networks of the Future: Extreme Times Call for Extreme Measures!
Here’s an observation that happened to serve as the basis of a keynote I had the opportunity to give the other day, at the TIA 2016 “Network of the Future” conference, in Dallas: Yes, it would be wonderful indeed if broadband service providers saw 50% annual revenue growth — if only to offset…