SP360: Service Provider

It is with great admiration and fondness that I write this blog about my colleague John Chapman’s induction into the 2017 class of Cable Pioneers, during the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, in Denver this week. The Cable Pioneers is an organization that honors long-serving and accomplished executives in the in…

At ANGAcom in May 2017, we showed the first worldwide demonstration of Full Duplex DOCSIS3.1 (FDX DOCSIS). FDX DOCSIS is a truly significant innovation to DOCSIS. A critical mid-life upgrade for the HFC network, FDX DOCSIS will help to position the industry at the forefront of innovation, providing…

As cable operators continue to look at facing the ever-increasing onslaught of data demand from subscribers, we must ask ourselves, “Is there a better way to do things?” We all have heard the unofficial definition of “insanity” as “doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result,…

An Analysis of Remote PHY vs Analogue Deep Fiber Total Cost of Ownership In a recently published white paper, The TCO Advantage of Remote PHY, we compare the CAPEX and OPEX of a Remote PHY deployment with an Integrated CCAP/HFC deployment. A next-generation Distributed Access Architecture (DAA), Rem…

Remote PHY, the industry’s best bet technology for boosting performance, increasing capacity, reducing costs, and simplifying network operations, is the subject of a must-see seminar at this year’s SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo. Featuring Cisco Fellow and Cable CTO John Chapman, who played a central role…

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs Vodafone engineers are constantly trying to innovate within their network to improve their customers’ experiences. To that end Vodafone Ireland has teamed with Cisco to create the world’s first trial using machine learning algori…

Hackers now work in organised gangs that target individuals to infiltrate organisations. It’s hard to stop them – but by taking an integrated approach to security, service providers can stay ahead. Cyber crime has changed. At one time, hackers were lone operators breaking into systems to cause misch…

I came back from IBC week in Amsterdam amazed by the Cisco team’s hard work and energized by what we heard from customers. In all, we hosted more than 500 customer meetings in the Cisco booth and gave over 200 demos across our various product offerings. In case you weren’t able to join us, here is a…

Uniserver, a leading cloud and IT services provider in the Netherlands, has a single, clear mission: to make IT simple. Internally, however, the effort involved in provisioning cloud infrastructure and services for customers was anything but. Today, Uniserver is using Cisco virtualization and networ…