SP360: Service Provider

Health is about more than just taking medicine when we get ill. To stay healthy, we need to think long-term. It’s about understanding the different components of a healthy lifestyle, as well as what the potential dangers are and how to prevent them. And we need to continuously monitor our health, so…

Cisco Crosswork provides the holistic real-time insight needed to transform your network operations. Service providers today are facing big challenges, with fast, flexible services and huge bandwidths expected as standard. If they want to remain competitive by delivering efficient services, provider…

This year, I once again had the opportunity to join colleagues, customers and competitors from around the globe at ANGA COM in Cologne, Germany. This is one of my favorite trade show events, because it is brimming with innovation and thought-provoking discussions specifically focused on the future o…

Networking today is a world of big opportunities – and big challenges. Telecoms, mobile, cloud and cable service providers are all facing increasing demands on their systems. Old approaches are no longer going to be enough. If they want to succeed in future, service providers are going to have to re…

Cisco Live! US was different for our Service Provider Business this year. We showcased how Enterprises and Service Providers – anyone with critical infrastructure requirements – can reinvent their networks with intelligent, mass-scale networking and automation from Cisco SP…. What’s changed? Explos…

  As cybersecurity becomes more complex and demand grows for knowledgeable security staff, organizations will look for more ways to maximize their security budgets. One way to do so is to outsource security functions to a service provider. According to the Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report…

As we head into the summer of 2018 and as the heat starts to roll in, the world’s mobile operators find their networks in a similar position – HOT! With all of the new mobile & IoT devices soon receiving gigabit access anywhere where 5G and LTE-A are available, the consumer and business person w…

This is the last of my “Cable Story” blog series, and what better way to finish it other than discussing automation? Why, because it stands to be the most important thing that service providers can do today to streamline their businesses. The principles in implementing automation are similar across…

Today marks another milestone in the journey to Intent-based Networking. Today is good news for Managed Service Providers! First though, some data points regarding the current state of managed network services. There are fewer than 25% of US businesses using managed LAN/WLAN services from providers.…