SP360: Service Provider

Over the next five years, global IP networks will support up to 10 billion new devices and connections—near tripling IP traffic growth by 2020, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index forecast. The proliferation of connected devices, video, and over-the-top (OTT) traffic are pushing SONET/SDH t…

The Data Center Interconnect (DCI) segment can be a difficult one to analyze across equipment vendors. Over-the-Top (OTT) providers are not always eager to advertise the architectures of their newest data centers, describe their DCI strategy or their vendor choice(s). Telcos similarly are either bui…

As we head to MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress this week, I’m reminded of conversations I have with Service Providers all the time.  They tell me how they need complete solutions to meet their business needs, not just a slice of a technology stack.  They tell me they want software that supports an en…

The term web-scale has been with us just a few years. Mainly referring to managing a data center infrastructure with capabilities to scale in size, speed and agility, it has usually been associated with large cloud service firms such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix.   It has not been associated…

Written by Vy Kuchibhatla, Senior Manager, MBG Operations and Strategy At MWC 2017, two key themes received a bulk of the focus from a network equipment provider perspective: 5G and NFV/Automation (Verizon/Cisco, Telus/Cisco, NTT/Cisco, Reliance Jio/Cisco). This article focuses on the genesis of NFV…

Written by Ray Nering, Product Marketing Manager, Cisco We’re excited to announce that Cisco will have two demonstrations of the QSFP-DD form factor at OFC 2017. The QSFP-DD standard is important because it supports the continued growth in network bandwidth demand and datacenter traffic, by quadrupl…

Mobile is everything and everything is mobile. On Day 1 of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Chuck Robbins succinctly described the “mobility explosion,” as a driver for innovation and a means for anyone and everyone to take advantage of the incredible advances we are seeing in technology. This explosive…

You have enough on your plate – trying to operate your network while figuring out a plan on how to migrate all of your TDM circuits to IP, and your budget probably isn’t growing either. At next week’s OFC in Los Angeles, we’re excited to show you the latest innovations in our service lifecycle manag…

I am pleased to share some great news!  After months of discussion, today networking industry leader Jonathan Davidson is joining our Service Provider Business Unit and my senior leadership team as SVP/GM – SP Networking. Having served as executive vice president and general manager of Juniper Devel…