SP360: Service Provider

Please join me in welcoming Vijoy Pandey as our new Service Provider CTO.    Vijoy comes to us from Google where he headed engineering for their Data Center, Cloud and WAN networks, developing software systems for intent-driven automation, diagnostic telemetry, data analytics and application-level a…

A unified platform for enabling network services will be crucial to supporting the internet of things By 2021 there will be more than 3.3 billion mobile connected internet of things (IoT) devices. This is going to have a big impact on the way we live: connected cars will mean safer and more efficien…

Cisco’s agile, programmable infrastructure will help service providers enter new markets by supporting next generation services 5G is coming, and it is bringing telecoms, internet and cable service providers new revenue generating opportunities. By enabling greater flexibility and capacity, 5G will…

Unleashing the Potential of Mobile Cloud Services 5G networking will create many opportunities for service providers. Enhanced mobile broadband and fixed wireless access are two examples of the kind of new service that will be possible. And there will also be opportunities to support growth in areas…

Segment Routing is the term widely used in the industry to refer to Source Packet Routing In Networking (SPRING), as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Cisco has pioneered Segment Routing since 2012 and has led the standardization efforts with the support of a group of lead opera…

Seamless cross-access convergence enables service providers to run their networks more efficiently, offering customers a better quality of experience and greater reliability. Growing customer demands for flexible services, alongside developing trends such as the internet of things, network as a serv…

It has been two years since we started shipping our cloud-scale networking products.  The Cisco NCS 5500 Series was specifically designed to be a scalable, low-power consumption, and cost-optimized 100G routing platform, with a path to 400G. The NCS 5500 product family is built to meet the massive b…

The future will bring a lot of changes for telecoms, internet and cable service providers: more data, more devices and more services. Cisco’s research predicts that by 2021, annual global IP traffic will reach 3.3 zettabytes (that’s 3.3 trillion gigabytes). There are two ways things can go for servi…

Written by Priya Maratukulam, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco In our previous post we described the phenomenon of total internal reflection and how it enables light to travel long distances down optical fibers.  In this post we will discuss different types of optical fiber.  The tw…