SP360: Service Provider
Accelerate GTM Transformation Using the Jobs to be Done Framework
Service providers (SPs) are in mid-transformation. No news there! SPs are: Adopting digital methodologies to iterate the commercialization process and speed time-to-market. Expanding their offer portfolios, moving up the stack to include complementary value-added managed services. Shifting to clou…
Optics in the Data Center: Powering Ever-Increasing Capacity Demands
As I mentioned in my previous blog, pluggable optics (aka optical transceivers) are widely deployed inside the data center, campus, enterprise, or service provider central office. The Cisco Global Cloud Index estimates that total data center traffic (all traffic within or exiting a data center) will…
SOS! My Peering is Under Attack!
What happened? Now that the Internet has become critical to our day-day lives we really feel the impact when it goes down. While the origin of the Internet – the so-called “ARPANET” was built for resiliency and redundancy there are some hidden vulnerabilities that can undermine its stability. One ke…
Data Center Interconnect: Trends, Transitions and How Cisco’s Intent to Acquire Acacia Is a Game Changer for the Futur …
In today’s blog, I’ll address the trends in Data Center Interconnect (DCI) and Wide Area Networks (WAN) for Metro and Long Haul distances covering 10km to 10,000 km, and how the Acacia Communications, Inc. acquisition can help drive the industry shifts happening in this space. Pluggable optics (aka…
No Network, No Cloud
I’ve been working on software-defined networking opportunities over the past five years or so, and it continues to amaze me how many enterprise network departments are only embarking on the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) journey because they are either told to do so by analysts or because of perceive…
Orchestration and Automation Solutions for the 5G Era
In our previous blog, we looked at how Cisco can help service providers (SPs) deliver high-quality 5G solutions to their enterprise customers. We now continue the story by focusing on two important 5G-network enablers: automation and orchestration. In the light of today’s changing market trends, thi…
New Tunable DWDM 10Gb Transceiver For Extended Reach On All SFP+ Ports
It is estimated that approximately 22 million*, 10Gb/s Ethernet transceivers were shipped industry-wide in 2018. Transceivers have numerous applications from mobile backhaul to connecting switches and servers in data centers. With the multiple applications come varied requirements for reach on the…
Equinix Segment Routing-powered network delivers increased value to its customers
Guest Author: Muhammad Durrani Leading Global Network Architecture and Engineering Equinix Segment Routing 101 Segment Routing (SR) is a flexible and scalable way of performing source routing. The source chooses a path and encodes it in the packet header as an ordered list of segments. Eac…
Future workforce demands paradigm shift in Talent Management
Last year Accenture published a report highlighting how Communications Service Providers (CSPs) must re-skill their workforces in new technologies to capture growth opportunities. What was clear is that for C-suite officers of CSPs this is probably the topic that keeps them awake at night most. The…
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