SP360: Service Provider

We all know, as a Service Providers you have to operate much faster. You have to adopt much faster and to respond much faster to consumers like us. The good news is, we see many examples of how this can be done. Network operations is picking up speed fast. And as technology matures the momentum is p…

Enable rapid delivery of Cisco Intelligent WAN service using self-service portal and zero-touch, fully-automated provisioning Written by Dave Roberts, Director of Virtual Managed Services (VMS) at Cisco Cisco recently announced that Verizon is now using Cisco’s Virtual Managed Services (VMS) as the…

5G in the 3.5 GHz Band is Here We have been talking about 5G for what seems forever, but it has only been a few years and happy to say we are finally moving forward. We have been procrastinating about 5G and our next generation networks because of our dream of its potential to be a greater step forw…

Today is a very good day: A day that proves without question that shift happens. That creativity is alive and thriving. What goes on? Today is the grand unveiling  of the Technicolor Experience Center, a milestone moment for seeing around corners, and I get to be here. Called “TEC” for short, the Te…

A while back, I blogged on a survey that market research firm Ovum ran to help us with market research in NFV and SDN professional services.  While it wasn’t our principal objective in this survey to measure competitive position, we did receive some very interesting competitive perceptions fro…

The disruption of businesses used to take decades, but, today, digitization is changing the business landscape at an unprecedented rate. While this is a global phenomenon, it is, in particular, showcased in Asia Pacific, where, on a recent trip, I was able to meet with customers who are on the cutti…

Picture this, by 2021, there will be 4.6 billion global Internet users, 27.1 billion networked devices and connections, and 82 percent of all IP traffic will be video, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. What’s even more amazing is that more members of the global population (7.8 billion ac…

The Internet is global in spirit. But the traffic associated with it is increasingly local in nature, as we found in our recent VNI study. Consider a typical Internet user in North America. Today, over a third (35%) of the content accessed by this user is sent from a point within the same metropolit…

Three Internet Trends that Warrant Global Service Provider Attention (and Action) Today, consumers and business users depend on global IP networks more than ever. While it can be easy to take connectivity for granted when networks are working well, it can be a minor inconvenience or a major hardship…