SP360: Service Provider

By Rajesh Ghai, Research Director, Carrier Network Infrastructure, IDC    Faced with the triple challenges of commoditization, competition from new and old players, and the growing complexity of their infrastructure, communication service providers (SPs) globally recognize the need to digitall…

It’s February again and like us, you are probably thinking about Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and hanging out with 100,000 plus of your closest industry friends.  This is always an amazing event with great speakers, eye opening announcements, important meetings and impactful demonstrations of…

The Open vRAN movement started with some smaller waves and the anticipation of a larger wave to form. It was driven by a belief that the fundamental way that mobile networks have been built for decades needed to evolve and improve. Legacy architectures, that were useful in the past, have outlived th…

In the previous blog, we looked at Connected vehicle services and telemetry, digging into the current data volumes. In this blog, we’re going to take a look at the Connected vehicle of tomorrow. How do the vehicle services change and what data volume might it represent? What will the data consist of…

Service providers around the world are trying to add innovative services and capabilities to attract new revenue and stay competitive. Adding mobile Unified Communications (UC) to their portfolio can be that enabler for service providers. Cisco together with Ericsson, a leading provider of informati…

In the previous blog, we looked at In-Vehicle Infotainment, focusing on streamed media and navigation services. In this blog, we’ll look at Connected vehicle services and telemetry. What is this and what data volume does it represent? Vehicle services Some vehicle manufacturers such as Jaguar, provi…

Written by Kaushik Mittra, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco Cisco sells the highest quantity of optical transceivers in the world. Through a combination of internal development and OEM and JDM engagements with suppliers, Cisco has developed an extensive portfolio of transceivers t…

In the previous blog, we looked at data from vehicles and why vehicle manufacturers want to gather the information. We also looked to understand data from a ‘per-duty-cycle’ perspective rather than ‘per-day’. In this blog, we’ll look at In-Vehicle Infotainment. What is this and what data volume does…

5G Gets Top Billing, But Don’t Forget Wi-Fi This week, we released the latest update to the Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2017 – 2022). The annual study provides global, regional, and country-level projections and trends associated with mobile (cellular) networks as well as a…