SP360: Service Provider
Voice Calls from Any Mobile Device – It’s Happening Now
Like most kids, my children love to call their grandparents and tell them about what is happening at school. We are lucky that we have a great home POTS voice service through our local telephone company. My kids are growing up quickly, and I anticipate that they will want to eventually call from wha…
Telefónica and Cisco Personalize the Consumer Experience at Mobile World Congress
On March 2 at Mobile World Congress, Robert Franks, Managing Director, Digital Commerce at Telefónica UK and Cisco’s Kelly Ahuja, SVP, Service Provider Business, Products & Solutions, had a standing-room only crowd as part of the “Personalizing the Consumer Experience” keynote. During their ses…
Cisco Mobility IQ Turns Stadiums into Marquee Digital Data Collectors
Normally the site of rival match-ups, Cisco’s cloud-hosted, analytics solution Mobility IQ is turning stadium environments into the newest place to gain visibility into mobile traffic like never before. With advanced insight into Wi-Fi, 3G and LTE network activity – all in real-time – service provid…
Cisco Mobility IQ Ushers in New Era of Retail Engagement and Outreach
With Cisco’s cloud-hosted, analytics solution Mobility IQ, retailers and their partners can now gain invaluable insight into their customers’ “showrooming” habits, understanding more about why customers browse in-store – but buy online. This breakthrough solution is making it easier to capital…
Get the Big Picture with Cisco Mobility IQ
We’re here in Barcelona for the opening of Mobile World Congress 2015, and the energy is palpable. I have to say I’m pretty excited myself as Cisco unveils a new way of doing business with our service provider customers: Cisco Mobility IQ. Mobility IQ changes the conversation from what the network d…
Celebrating Women in the Service Provider Industry
Whether they are ‘leaning in’ or ‘breaking through the glass ceiling’, the number of women in the global Service Provider (SP) and Cable industries is growing rapidly. Many female executives are at the helm– or in key leadership roles — of SP firms that are transforming their businesses…
Ready for Mobile World Congress Hot Topics
As I board the plane ready for the long flights to Barcelona, I’m excited and energised by the prospective of around 100 APAC customer meetings and Cisco technology demos. Hopefully when I get off the plane in the wee hours I’ll remain half as energised. With all the discussions with Service Provide…
Making Software Defined Networks work for the Service Provider’s success
An invitation to see how Tomorrow starts here at MWC 2015 We all like to talk about creating new customized services for the end user at “web-speed”. But today there is no way to automate service creation, or to dynamically affect changes (augmentation) to existing services without touching the netw…
2015: A Great Time to be a Service Provider!
As we close on the first two months of 2015, I am amazed by the exciting developments that can directly benefit service providers. A few examples from my recent travels: CES in Las Vegas – The Internet of Everything moved from concept to reality as seen in new connected services, continued prolifer…