SP360: Service Provider

Some of our recent blog posts, A Requirements Checklist for the Next Generation Transport Network and The Next-Generation Transport Network: Solution Options discussed the business requirements you should consider before selecting a modernization solution and the technology options currently availab…

Telecom operators: The key pillars of virtualization Cisco believes a virtual network should be more than the sum of its parts As businesses go digital, they will need new kinds of networks to support them – networks that allow them to deliver the flexible, adaptable products their customers now exp…

December 2016 will go into history as the month when the first “ Open RPD” Remote PHY interop was completed at Cablelabs®. The event, hosted by Cablelabs® took place in Denver the week of the 5th of December. Multiple vendors participated, many of them member of the Open-RPD forum. What was Open-RPD…

Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit In a recent blog, we discussed Fiber Deep (FD) architectures and their place in the end-to-end network. We emphasized there that the physical topology is geared toward balancing the number of subscribers per service group, and that th…

Of course, I’m talking about that incredible annual event known as CES.  For those of us who are passionate about technology impacting the Consumer Electronics space, CES is magical…and this year’s show did not disappoint.  From the continued emergence of intelligent personal assistants, to the pote…

There’s a lot of buzz around just now when it comes to supporting vendor-neutral data models at the device layer, so it’s a good time to talk about what Cisco is doing to support open models, and OpenConfig models in particular. Customers have been rapidly adopting automation techniques…

Who’s your audience – millennials or unicorns? Of course, the answer is neither, because neither exist. It’s pretty much impossible to define what a millennial is – try it, Google has plenty of results. It’s become a shorthand term for the stage in life somewhere between skateboards and mortga…

New and Emerging Applications Require Broadband Innovation While the turn of the century and the hoopla that surrounded Y2K was nearly two decades ago, for many of us, it feels like the very recent past. As the year 2000 began, mobile carriers were just starting to offer data and texting capabilitie…

Regardless of the ongoing debate on the efficacy of legal action against illegal streaming, there seems to be more legal action initiated, with pretty significant judgments, across more territories and jurisdictions. Two reports on action against illegal streaming caught my eye last month. The first…