SP360: Service Provider

When it comes to network deployment strategies, you may be accustomed to treating pluggable optics as an afterthought. But over the past several years, higher data rate pluggable optics have been developed to keep up with bandwidth demands in data centers and service provider networks. And with thos…

The countdown is officially on. We are just one week away from welcoming over 16,000 customers, partners and colleagues to Barcelona for Cisco Live 2020, so now is the time to start thinking about what you hope to get out of the event; planning your agenda to suit your specific interests and needs.…

On Dec. 11, the world heard about the Internet for the Future from Cisco – the company who built and powered the Internet for the past 35 years.  That day, we hosted an exclusive event in San Francisco where we unveiled our vision and strategy to transform the engine that powers the Internet in fron…

Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco  Data center network traffic continues to grow, and as always Cisco is here to provide the best infrastructure options for the industry. According to Cisco’s VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, traffic growth from 2017 to 2022 will…

“Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded.” Powerful words from the great scientist Stephen Hawking, reflecting on a moment in time which changed everything; when mankind began to talk and to listen, evolving into cog…

If you’re anything like me, your internet connection is a connection to family, to friends, to work, to business partners, to entertainment – and everything in between. When people think of the internet these days, “the cloud” often comes to mind, for storage and apps and streaming games and videos,…

According to Gartner, 20.4 billion IoT devices will be in use worldwide by 2020, and more than 65 percent of enterprises will adopt IoT products. IoT devices are expected to generate more than half of the world’s data by 2025 according to IDC. Considering the current growth of the Internet and the a…

You may have seen at the recent Cisco Partner Summit early November that KPN picked up two awards: EMEAR Innovation Partner of the Year and the Netherlands Public Sector Partner of the Year. As a leading supplier of telecommunications and IT solutions in the Netherlands, KPN is paving the way for in…

A couple of years ago, my colleague Hazel released an inspiring blog post explaining an interesting analogy on Cisco’s approach to cybersecurity: if cybersecurity was a pizza. As I began to prepare for my festive feast, a similar analogy was cooking (ahem..,) as I thought about how many elements the…