SP360: Service Provider

On the heels of a dynamic OFC show, Cisco kept the Optical and Optics momentum going with our 2018 Spring Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) in Richardson, Texas last week. A quick highlight from OFC:  Cisco introduced two new modular platforms to our NCS 1000 series to help providers maxim…

Global IP traffic will increase nearly three-fold over the next 5 years. This means that the need for bandwidth is already growing beyond current capabilities. Why? Because operators have only a limited amount of spectrum within coax or fiber, and some of that spectrum is consumed by legacy and inef…

This blog was authored by Carl Moberg. Carl has spent many years trying to solve network management with special focus on automation and orchestration. He is a Technology Director leading the engineering product management team for the Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) product.   As a member…

What an event! Special thanks to all of our customers, partners and the amazing Cisco team for a great week at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris. We were able to engage with many Service Providers, hyper-scale Web 2.0 companies and the largest Enterprises, presenting Cisco’s vision of a fun…

Written by Zhenbo Xu, Technical Marketing Engineer, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco     Non-Return to Zero (NRZ), an intuitive and simple modulation format, has been adopted for decades for both electrical and optical data transmission. However, as serial data rates increase to 25G and be…

Attending the Pay TV Show in Denver next week? If so, don’t miss Wednesday’s 1:40pm panel Streaming Video Everywhere: Quality & Reliability at Hyatt Regency in Denver, Colorado.  I’ll moderate the discussion and we’ll dive deep into a wide range of technologies taking Adaptive Bit Ra…

In February, Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers.  Read Jonathan Davidson’s blog for an overview to understand our comprehensive approach in enabling a closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution. Follo…

  This blog was authored by Greg Walsh, Senior Marketing Manager at Cisco Mobile Business Group   As a society, the critical role of mobile broadband in our lives continues to test new levels every day. While still falling short of Abraham Maslow’s definition of the six human needs for sur…

In February, Cisco announced its latest innovation – Cisco Crosswork Network Automation – a new network automation portfolio for Service Providers.  Read Jonathan Davidson’s blog for an overview to understand our comprehensive approach to enabling a closed-loop, mass-scale automation solution. Follo…