SP360: Service Provider

It’s now been over 6 months since Cisco announced that it had joined the Open Air Interface (OAI) software alliance, with the aim of accelerating open, multi-vendor, RAN splits and the first week of November marks a milestone in that co-operation. If you recall, back in February, Cisco open-sourced…

  Speed, simplicity and agility. These needs are all top of mind as service providers look for ways to maximize their existing optical network while building enough bandwidth overhead to support the massive increase in data driven by today’s digital world. In the past, network growth and transi…

It is that time of year again; leaves are turning, the air is crisp, and every week teams from the National Football League line up to participate in the ‘ultimate team sport’, American football.  As a lifelong fan, I watch every Patriots game and I am certainly not alone. It is that diehard devotio…

So we’re a few weeks after the very first Mobile World Congress Americas (MWCA), and it’s interesting to look back and see how the event matched up to expectations. For an inaugural event, MWCA had some hits and some misses. We held some very interesting customer meetings. The Innovation…

You may have heard of Forward Error Correction (FEC), since it’s used in many forms of data communication. You’ll find it in wireless networks, space communication, undersea fiber optic networks, bar code scanners, and your CD player (if you still have one). We’ll talk more about FEC in a subsequent…

Written by Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer, Cable Access Business Unit Web-scale giants, like Amazon, Google and Facebook, design their infrastructure, applications and deployments to be cloud native because this is the ideal environment for supporting their core applications, including sear…

Back in May this year at the ANGA.COM we announced the availability of our Infinite Broadband solution, introducing Remote PHY to the market as the leading Distributed Access Architecture (DAA). The Infinite Broadband solution now includes everything you need to make Remote PHY a reality: CCAP RPHY…

We are releasing a new product for our Cisco Infinite Broadband solution set, the GS7000 iNode, a No-Touch SmartNode.  Based on the industry-leading GS7000 Optical Node, the new SmartNode delivers an innovative approach that enables unprecedented operational savings for multiple service operators (M…

As more and more cable service providers forge MVNO partnerships with mobile carriers, or build their own MNO-styled networks, the time has come to start solving mobile backhaul problems — and especially the backhaul latencies required by LTE networks — by expanding the DOCSIS specificat…