SP360: Service Provider
Service Providers Are Sitting on a Gold Mine of Data
The so-called “data deluge” shows no signs of abating anytime soon. Facebook, for example, has more than 2.5 billion pieces of content and ingests more than 500 terabytes of new content daily. Mobile devices are driving this growth of data. The global proliferation of devices estimated to reach 10…
For Mobile Carriers, Five Key Trends Promise Pain and Prospects
Mobile carriers face no shortage of pain points as new data streams create unprecedented and staggering amounts of information. But it is important to remember that pain points often arrive in tandem with new opportunities. From my perspective, observing the driving forces shaping the mobile industr…
A Quantum Leap Forward for Policy
Cisco validates new performance benchmarks: linear scale-out to 250K transactions-per-second with 75M concurrent sessions Earlier this week Cisco introduced a number of new mobile internet innovations to help service providers deliver new and more personalized connected experiences. The mobile Inter…
SoftBank Breaks the Backhaul Bottleneck
As shown in the most recent Cisco Visual Networking Index, Japan is one of the fastest growing countries when it comes to mobile data traffic. Like many service providers, SoftBank, one of Japan’s leading mobile operators, has wrestled with how to manage this vast amount of traffic in an efficient a…
And the (Two!) Technology & Engineering Emmys Go To….
By Jeff Seebeck, VP/GM, Video Control Plane Business Unit,Cisco …Cisco! As you can imagine, this super-charged our annual trek to Las Vegas for the International CES show, which serves as host for the fanciest-ever black tie event for tech people. (It even had a tech host – David Pogue, himself an …
Cisco Committed to CPE as Part of Overall Video Strategy
By Joe Chow, Vice President and General Manager, Connected Devices Business Unit Following Cisco’s 2Q FY ’13 earnings call last week, we received questions about our commitment to certain elements of our set-top box business. Comments were made that Cisco is walking away from low-margin deals. I wou…
Catching the Wave: SPs and Mobile Growth
Mobile data traffic worldwide will increase 13 times by 2017. That’s from the latest Cisco VNI Mobile Data Forecast Update, 2012-2017 released in early February. (For a quick recap, check out Thomas Barnett’s blog post and infographic.) For those of you who surf or enjoyed the movie Chasing Maveric…
Four Ways TV Advertising Will Change During this Decade
By Leszek Izdebski, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) The past few years have brought sweeping transformation to television—a trend that will only accelerate in the coming decade. Following up on a 2011 study on the future of television, Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG)…
Cisco ONE Webcast Series: An Introduction to OpenFlow
Topics such as Software Defined Networking and programmable networks are of great interest to many network operators these days. With that in mind we’re pleased to kick off a new series of Webcasts to help our customer learn more about Cisco’s Open Network Environment strategy. Please join us on Feb…