SP360: Service Provider

OK, if you’re not thinking that I have lost my mind you are perhaps thinking, “How can my customers guide me with SDN and NFV?”.  If you look at it from the technology viewpoint, you are correct!  Your customers don’t specifically care about SDN and NFV nor any other technological mumbo jumbo and mo…

Service provider networks are at the epicenter of digitization, affecting how businesses and entire industries will operate for years to come.  Today it seems as if every disruptive new business model shaking up an industry is reliant on the innovative use of applications based on network services.…

Using cloud-based software, it’s simple to launch and refine agile video services The world of online video is changing fast. People watch an increasing amount of content over the internet. And the success of over the top services like Netflix means that they also expect to be able to access it chea…

Digitization is opening up new opportunities for business expansion. Cloud and IP are enabling service providers to deliver new services and impactful experiences with greater agility, less cost and flexibility. Interconnected devices are offering exciting new means to respond rapidly and deliver a…

By Aunindo Ghosh Fifty countries, 4.5 billion people, and a multitude of cultures and economies. Asia Pacific is indeed as varied as it is vast. And that variation includes the way people watch TV. But if there is one thread that binds everyone in this region, it has to be the explosive growth of Mo…

The Cisco Infinite Video Platform can enable service providers and OTT video businesses to cater for the complex multi-screen habits of today’s viewers The way we watch video is changing. Yes, people still sit down in front of the TV to watch live programmes – but increasingly, this is only one part…

I’m guilty of missing the past few Cisco Packet Optical Networking Conferences (PONC), but I’m very pleased that I was able to attend the most recent one in Richardson, Texas.  More than 150 customers, partners and industry analysts were present and several contributed to the event presentations. In…

Written by Ola Mabadeje, Marketing Manager “Recalculating”… “Recalculating”… was all I heard when I eventually turned on the GPS navigator with the latest navigation software. I had been stuck in traffic and then decided to take some backroads to my destination. I had initially tried to…

Service providers want to offer flexible video services in a simple way. Here are four reasons why they no longer have any excuses not to I magine that one of your customers was watching a film on TV at home, but then wanted to restart watching it the next day on their tablet on the train, while con…