SP360: Service Provider
Too Slow? 25G Speeds Up Data Centers and Campus Backbones
Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco With the massive increase in demand for data, equipment providers are responding with 25Gbps edge devices that require more bandwidth than can be provided on a traditional 10Gbps interface. Whether it’s a server or a campus b…
Cheers to Cisco’s CableFax Over Achievers Under 30
Our Heartfelt Congratulations to Maureen Dolan and Andrew Solarz: CableFAX Overachievers Under 30 It is with great delight that I have occasion to recognize two stars in the Cisco family, Maureen Dolan and Andrew Solarz, who made the CableFAX Overachievers Under 30 class of 2017! Both represent th…
Fall PONC a Resounding Success in Rome, Italy
I recently returned from Cisco’s Optical Packet Networking Conference (PONC) in Rome, Italy, where we had the opportunity to host and interact with more than 230 attendees from 57 companies across the globe. It was an invigorating experience as we covered topics from Service Provider trends and netw…
Why Wait for 5G? The Challenges of Railway Connectivity – Solved – Today (Part 2)
Recently I blogged about how Cisco are working with ScotRail (the train operator) and Network Rail Telecom (the track operator) in Scotland to deliver a trial of the world’s fastest in-train WiFi, an evolution of work done earlier on “Project SWIFT”. I also described a school of thought that sugges…
The Cisco ASR 9000 – Timeless Versatility for Future Growth
Cisco’s Aggregation Service Router 9000 (ASR 9k) has evolved into the cloud-scale, multi-service platform offering unprecedented flexibility, scale, programmability and security for Service Providers today. When the ASR 9k was first announced in November 2008, it was a 6-slot and a 10-slot chassis—e…
Keeping Up with the Video Streaming Binge-Watchers
Video streaming services are hugely popular, with more and more people determined to stay up to date with the latest series. But for service providers, the challenge is to keep up in a different sense. Because over-the-top (OTT) video streaming services like Netflix and YouTube account for an increa…
What’s the Real Business Value of 5G?
Meeting the cost of 5G is major talking point at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) this year. According to a major German operator, the cost of supplying Europe with 5G connections could be anything between €300 billion and €500 billion . This is a major challenge. Because 5G technology is going to ma…
5G Networking: Who’s in the Driving Seat?
Our new solution is a cost-effective route to reliable 5G connections – and the innovative services they make possible Over the next years, people will increasingly expect 5G connections and the types of service they can support. And this will lead to increasing demands on service provider networks.…
Mind the Gap: 5G Network Strategy Ahead
A new solution that uses plug-in technology makes it cost-effective to deploy segment routing across the whole network The pressure on service providers is rapidly increasing. Globally, demands for bandwidth are doubling every 18 months and the number of devices being used to connect to the internet…