SP360: Service Provider

As more and more service providers and enterprises invest in Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the fast-evolving and maturing NFV technology poses special challenges for those who are looking to not only perform a proof-of-concept, but also operationalize their NFV initiative, and ultimately of…

In my earlier blog post, I described the need for pervasive security and architectural approaches to enable secure, agile services against increasingly sophisticated attackers. Pervasive security is critical to the Open Network Architecture (ONA). But what does pervasive security actually mean?  Si…

Wow! OFC is going to be another really great event this year. If you’re like me, you already have a busy schedule planned, there are just so many great speakers, sessions, and workshops available to choose from – including some excellent sessions and topics featuring Cisco’s own Bill Gartner, Ron Jo…

Co-written with Patrick Warichet, Technical Marketing Engineer I’ve been asking that question to many Service Providers and I’ve always got unclear answers. Either they don’t have the answer handy or they don’t really want to share this insight fearing to be compared with their peers … Without discl…

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017 is just around the corner and I want to explain why I think this is a must-see event. Simplification, automation and virtualization are words that have been used by marketers, like myself for years. I think we can all agree, at some point, for these words to become r…

“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”   That was 1999 – a seminal scene in the sci-fi motion picture “The Matrix.” Morpheus re…

Co-authored with Nicolas Breton, Product Manager Marketing, Cisco In the era of Cloud-scale networking, network simplicity, agility and scale are essential.  Service Providers are currently expanding their Data Center footprint to offer on-demand virtualized network services. This is what the indust…

You are likely faced with unprecedented change in technology adoption, implementation of service and business go to market while trying to grow business and manage your bottom line. Customers want new services and application features delivered with agility; quickly, painlessly, on demand and with s…

There has never been a more interesting time to be a Service Provider.  Today, we are in the midst of a once in a generation transition in technology that we last saw with the birth of the internet.  Today, the exponential growth in hyper-connectivity, the services that evolve upon it and the dawn o…