SP360: Service Provider

Segment Routing has crossed the chasm – “Early Adopters” have already embraced it, and now the “Early Majority” is adopting it. Interestingly, at the very same time the industry is surfing the Segment Routing MPLS wave, the next wave is already coming in and will even be more disruptive to the way y…

Written by Mehdi Nikkhah, Software Engineer, Cisco Innovation Labs Service providers are going through a massive network transformation. Increasing demands from new services, in respect to user experience as well as connecting millions of things every year or month as well as creating new value and…

Over 28,000 people from around the world flocked to Las Vegas last month to attend Cisco’s annual showcase of new technologies, Cisco Live.  For the second year in a row, Ericsson participated in the event as a Diamond Sponsor, with a large booth and multiple keynote presentations. For the fir…

With the industry undergoing transformation, service providers (SPs) now have an opportunity to apply the latest innovation – from machine learning to artificial intelligence to advanced analytics — to the way they operate and define the network. Lessons from history has shown that to succeed in any…

Written By Christian Schmutzer, Principal Engineer at Cisco The idea behind Cisco’s Transport Network Modernization solution is simple: allow a single, packet-oriented network to support both connectionless and connection-oriented services concurrently. A number of technology innovations were requi…

The Communications Services Provider (CSP) industry is at a very exciting time as we transition towards a 5G world. 5G has the potential to be a greater step forward than any of the previous generations of mobile wireless generations. A major focus of 5G are use cases of business and IoT. Indeed, wh…

Strategize, Digitize, Analyze The latest Cisco VNI Complete Forecast update forecasts that for the first time in its 12-year history, there will be more M2M connections than end-user devices such as smartphones, laptops, TV sets, etc. By 2021, there will be 13.7 billion machine-to-machine (M2M) conn…

“Live” events are the holy-grail in media and entertainment. Whether it’s live sports, live news, or other live programming, “Live” is the most valuable, most difficult and most impactful type of production that can be done regardless of genre. Our own version of “Live”, Cisco Live US, is about to t…

Service Providers and Enterprises are constantly striving to keep pace with user demand and expectations. The drive to transform networks in a timely manner while maintaining service quality and constraining incremental costs is an ongoing challenge. With 77,000 Service professionals around the worl…