SP360: Service Provider

Everything can be disrupted. Tiger Woods just disrupted The Masters. Telecommunications companies are being disrupted by 5G. But can 5G disrupt golf and other industries outside of telecommunications? The answer is most definitely yes. And what better time to dig into these possibilities than now- b…

Thanks to all who stopped by the Cisco booth at OFC 2019 in San Diego! It was a bustling show and our booth was constantly packed. If you didn’t get to see it, Cisco Optics had a number of products and technologies on display. One of them was Cisco’s silicon photonics platform that our t…

Large enterprises are a complex beast. Merely mapping the buying process as well as the customer journey is not only complicated, but also varies across different vertical segments and is consistently multi-faceted and longer in duration than SMB and midmarket enterprises. In the previous two blog p…

Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group I’ve posted a few blogs about 25G transceivers (here, here, and here). Here’s an FAQ to address questions that have arisen from the significant uptick in the use of 25G transceivers, which is driven by high bandwidth dema…

Nowadays, customer engagement is almost synonymous with digital engagement. While there’s some truth to this (and one of the reasons why Cisco recently launched the Digital Accelerator for Service Providers), it fails to encompass the entire customer journey (particularly for midmarket and enterpris…

The network is critical infrastructure for Service Providers. In previous blogs we talked about Cisco’s trustworthy technologies and software innovations in Cisco IOS XR that elevate the trust posture of the Cisco routers. It is imperative to establish a strong infrastructure foundation that preserv…

Building on the tremendous momentum generated at MWC-Barcelona a few months ago, Cisco is the Diamond sponsor for the Big 5G Event May 6-8 in Denver, CO.  This is a great opportunity to learn about the Cisco 5G architecture, how it is being implemented today, and to learn about some new cloud-native…

As Daniel O’Connell and his colleagues at Gartner report in their Unified Communications Worldwide 2017 Forecast Overview, “small-business cloud telephony adoption will nearly double from 2016 through 2021, to reach 45% of small businesses.” He also explains that “small businesses will adopt cloud v…

In a previous blog on Cisco Trusted Platforms I looked at the hardware Trust Anchor module (TAm) that enhances the security of Cisco Service Provider products and provides visibility into the authenticity and integrity of the platforms. In this blog I will go over the software functionalities in IOS…