SP360: Service Provider
Observations from Mobile World Congress 2014
I have just returned from a very interesting and jammed-packed week at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. More than 75,000 people were estimated to have attended this year’s MWC, and its fabulous new conference facilities proved a great place to celebrate the industry’s accomplishments and cat…
Mobile Monetization Takes a Step Forward
By Brian Walsh, Service Provider Mobility Senior Marketing Manager Among the discussions we had with global Mobile Service Providers in Barcelona at MWC 2014, here’s something that was certainly NOT breaking news: in the face of relentless growth of mobile data usage (see Cisco VNI), a top imperativ…
Demystifying Multi-layer Convergence and SDN at OFC/NFOEC 2014
By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions If it’s Spring, then it is time for OFC/NFOEC – the world’s leading event for advancing optical solutions (March 9-13). Cisco will, once again, have a strong presence, including our largest booth ever (booth 4359), at this…
Cisco and the Evolution of the Service Provider Network
On February 18, Cisco announced the evolution of service provider (SP) networks. It is probably a good idea to step back, just a little, and explain how Cisco sees the challenges ahead and how we intend to continue to provide our mobile service provider customers with the strongest portfolio of solu…
Small Cell Industry Firsts with Multimode and Small Cell SON
In June, I described how Cisco was closing the small cell loop with the rapid integration of both the Ubiquisys and Intucell teams into the Cisco family. Today I’m pleased to make three announcements that demonstrate the concrete results of all these bright minds coming together: Cisco has added LT…
Expanding the Quantum Software Suite
A year ago we introduced the Cisco Quantum Software suite based on an architectural construct of an automated, closed loop – linking network, analytics and policy – to help Mobile Operators better optimize and monetize their network investments. We announced the network abstraction, ana…
Virtualization Technology for the Real World, Today
A few years ago at Mobile World Congress (well more than a few, perhaps…), I was speaking with the CTO of a top tier Mobile Operator about a newly emerging technology called IMS. It seemed that every vendor was promising how IMS was going to change the world. This very wise CTO stated that he need…
The Low Rumble of the 4K Resolution Revolution
It hasn’t been all that long since HD-quality video gained widespread acceptance as an industry standard. Yet a new resolution standard is capturing the attention of the broadcast world. It’s known as 4K (or Ultra High Definition – UHD), and it offers viewers four times the picture resolution of sta…
Milestones in Cisco Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Deployments
The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) confirms much of what we already know: Service providers will need to carry more video traffic to more devices delivered as unique on-demand streams. All at the time and place of the end-user’s choosing. But the sheer scale of this demand makes interesting rea…