SP360: Service Provider

The Philippines is one of Asia’s ‘youngest nations’, with a median age of 23 across a population of about 104 million. According to research findings (GlobalWebIndex, Global Digital Report 2019), people in the Philippines spend an average of 10 hours a day online, the highest ranked in the world. It…

This week’s NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters) will go down as a smashing success for Cisco thanks to innovation, leadership, training and partnerships.  For me it marked my 15th NAB show, and I couldn’t be more-proud of the work our team at Cisco showcased this week in each of those fo…

By Bart Van Daele, product marketing, video processing at Synamedia With NAB in full force, it would be an epic fail not to swing through the Cisco booth (and Synamedia’s along the way: SU10125). As Jacob pointed out last week, “exciting” is the best way to describe what you can see in these booths…

We just finished working with the analyst firm Analysys Mason on a white paper exploring the factors behind successful automation projects. They talked to a number of tier 1 operators to capture lessons learned from the rollouts of their respective automation projects.  The white paper is more focus…

Connected vehicles are considered to be one of the major drivers for investment in cellular communications technologies with forecasts projecting every new vehicle produced being ‘connected’ by 2025. What does this mean with respect to the impact on communications networks? What are the applications…

One thing is crystal clear, Media companies are creating an incredible amount of content, and they’re creating more and more of that content. This data is accumulated in huge libraries and retained for long periods. Access to this data is required on a regular basis, but the old way of long te…

The advent of 5G networks is often referred to in bald terms as not much more than a speed upgrade. Nothing could be further from the truth: 5G changes pretty well everything in the way people (and businesses in particular) will use cellular networks. 5G New Radio support incredibly fast data rates,…

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies have begun to make their leap from nascent technologies to comprehensive solutions that enable and empower many mainstream consumer/enterprise applications, customer experiences and various industry workflows. A revolution that started in…

Service Provider networks serve as critical infrastructure, and the security and trustworthiness of the network infrastructure is essential, as explained in both Sumeet’s blog and the Trusted Infrastructure video from Mobile World Congress. Providers of digital infrastructure must be able to verify…