SP360: Service Provider

Recently I’ve had the (very fortunate) opportunity to participate in many 5G planning meetings, involving customers, academia and public sector organizations.  Believe it or not, even among such distinguished company, a recurring theme among the participants is “What really is 5G?” 5G is about High-…

  [ authored by Kelsey Brewer, Cisco Cyber Security Manager ] Security teams know the endpoints within their environments are being targeted by advanced threats, but often lack the bandwidth, tools, and budget to adequately respond. As a result, organizations of all sizes are choosing to augmen…

It has been almost a year since I rejoined Cisco. The one question I have been asked hundreds of times by co-workers, former co-workers, employees, reporters and others is: “Why did you go back?” By way of background, I spent 15 formative years at Cisco, starting in Tech Support and moving thr…

Digitization impacts every industry and makes software more predominant than ever. The networking industry is no exception to it. As barriers to entry get much lower than in the past, merely delivering software innovations no longer suffices – it needs to be done with high velocity and quality. More…

The scale of the Internet is awe-inspiring. By 2021, there will be 4.6 billion people and 27 billion devices connected to the Internet, and Internet traffic will reach 2.8 trillion Gigabytes (or 2.8 Zettabytes) per year. (These numbers are published in our annual Visual Networking Index.) Even with…

As the 2018 Olympic Winter Games get underway in PyeongChang, South Korea, Cisco is proud to once again play a key role in delivering content from the world’s largest sporting event to billions of fans around the globe cheering on their countrymen and women. It was announced today that NBC Olympics…

Last November, I had the honor of speaking on the auspicious occasion of the IETF’s 100th meeting (in Singapore).  Because the IETF is a standards development organization (SDO) with which I have both a deep history and interest, I wanted to provoke, catalyze and hopefully accelerate discussion and…

We mentioned recently the new dual-rate 40G/100G BiDi QSFP28 pluggable optic transceiver module. Like the single-rate 40G BiDi, it lets you seamlessly upgrade short reach links from 10G without having to replace duplex LC-connectorized MMF fiber infrastructure originally meant for 10G SR. But that&#…

Verizon has achieved a significant technical milestone by implementing an innovative approach developed with Cisco toward increasing network efficiency on its next-generation transport network. This unique solution enables the continued growth of Ethernet services while improving the reliability of…