SP360: Service Provider

  This year’s UK budget day (23rd November 2017) has been an interesting day for technology. Technology plans were central topics – including a significant government 5G investment.  As my Cisco UK colleague Matt Houlihan blogged earlier, Cisco is already working with Government to ensure that…

When it comes to creating fast, flexible, on-demand services, programmability is key Programmability is an exciting area of network technology that creates a world of new agile services for service providers. It’s immensely powerful because it decouples the services themselves from the underlying ha…

To me, innovation is fast, intense, and purpose driven.  It is about adopting an experimental mentality and thinking about what we can do different today to create a better outcome for tomorrow. More than anything, it is about making those ideas happen. I was a physics major in college. Ever the sci…

By 2022 the number of 5G subscribers will be big… and growing fast. Are you ready for the next revolution? Multiple industry reports, including Cisco Visual Networking Index, highlights the growth of 5G technology, and how it will transform the way we use the internet. On average we expect there wil…

Pythagoras is said to have claimed that “choices are the hinges of destiny.” I don’t know about destiny, but in the data center world, you definitely want to have multiple options to choose from. They can help tailor a solution to your specific situation, which is especially important if you’r…

Business mobile devices can be a lifeline for increasing employee productivity – but how do your business customers realize value when the costs of managing enterprise mobility are so high? This was the focus of a new study, released today by Cisco, in which Forrester was commissioned to survey over…

Digitization of communication service providers(CSPs) starts with SDN and NFV. But they are facing a lot of challenges as they transform their network and operations to meet the demands of becoming a digital service provider. Adoption has been slow. Most of them are stuck in proof of concept stage w…

Many Service Providers today are challenged by aging TDM infrastructures with limited service capabilities, high maintenance costs, and increasing operational expenses. And as the equipment is aging out, so too are the skills necessary to maintain and service this equipment. Sooner or later, these S…

The evolution of cable networks came into focus at the recent SCTE Cable-Tec Expo in Denver, Colorado. Cable industry professionals from all over the world came together to learn and share the next generation of network technologies that will be shaping the cable industry for years to come. Distribu…