SP360: Service Provider

Full Duplex in Action at CableLabs 2017 Summer Conference

By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access, Cisco For the first time in the United States, we’ll be hosting our Full Duplex (FDX) DOCSIS proof of concept with Intel at the CableLabs Summer Conference this week. We unveiled the demo this past May at ANGA.COM FDX: Groundbreaking Technology So wh…

Vodafone India Data Strong Network Enhanced with Cisco SON

Vodafone India’s motto is “to be the most loved service provider in India” and that’s why over 200 million Indians have chosen to stay connected with them. Vodafone India is a 100% subsidiary of Vodafone Group. It commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellu…

Handy Tips from your SP Peers – Top 10 SDN/NFV Transformation Challenges

As part of our SDN and NFV study, we asked service providers what they considered to be their biggest challenges in their transformation. We have synthesized their responses and will share some of the top ones with you here. We assumed that the top challenges your peers faced would be technology foc…

Could Blockchain Technology Become the Mainstream Platform for Digital Transactions?

As my colleagues and I engage in our analysis for the Cisco Visual Networking Index, we are always on the look out for new or emerging technologies that have the potential to change network demands or user behaviors. Networks are truly organic infrastructures and many variables can have an impact on…

Cisco Accelerates Cloud Native vDRA and Scoops up Two North America Wins

People today use their mobile devices anytime, any place, and anywhere and According to the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) today there are still more than 800 mobile operators investing in LTE. There are also close to 600 additional LTE networks that have been commercially launched and an…

Network Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: Pervasive, Proactive, and Persistent Protection is Essential to Thwart …

Securing today’s digital content has become more challenging, as there are more endpoints and wide area networks (WAN) to protect than ever before. There will be 27.1 billion networked devices/connections by 2021, up from 17.1 billion in 2016 globally (according to the latest Cisco Visual Networking…

Cisco adds new capabilities to its Infinite Broadband solution for Cable Access Networks

It’s hard to believe we’ve been shipping the Cisco RPHY (Remote PHY), standards based, products for two months already! It all started at ANGA.COM with the launch of Infinite Broadband, which included the cBR8 RPHY capability and a GS7000 RPD (Remote PHY Device). Today we are pleased to announce tha…

Join us in Colorado at the 2017 CableLabs Summer Conference

In just a few weeks, we’ll be at the 2017 CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, Colorado to demonstrate DOCSIS FDX. The agenda for this year’s conference has some fantastic keynote speakers and sessions featuring the latest technical developments in the industry. To find out more, visit the Cable…

Cisco and its Partners Deliver Digital Fan Experiences of the Future, Today!

I’ve been working in the Sports and Entertainment Industry for over 20 years, and by far, digital transformation has been one of the greatest technology disruptor across industries in the past five years, making it more critical for organizations to transform their business models to remain competit…