SP360: Service Provider

October 17, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Slicing and Exposing: The 5G Network for Enterprise Use Cases

The time for 5G is clearly now as we see from the market launches from multiple Service Providers worldwide. Enhanced speed and low latency are being marketed first. While both consumers and businesses are expected to benefit from these, it is commonly agreed that the true potential of 5G is around…

October 15, 2019

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All the Right Moves? Making Sense of the Digital Opportunity

Making the right moves in the Service Provider (SP) Infrastructure market right now is a tricky business. On one side of the market sits the consumer living their best digital life with high-end devices and a constellation of apps that require bandwidth and availability. In the words of a great Scot…

October 14, 2019

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Five Industries for Monetizing your 5G Investment

Co-Authored with Dan Wiggins, Vice President, Industry Solutions Group at Cisco Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last few years, you probably know that the fifth generation of cellular network technology, 5G, is going to unleash some serious power with lower latency, higher bandwidth, gre…

October 11, 2019

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Making 5G Possible – with Cisco

Do you know how you are going to maximize the profitability of your 5G investment? If not, while at MWC19 Los Angeles, Cisco would like to speak with you about building a 5G network that works for all your customers as well as for you. Cisco at Mobile World Congress 2019 – Los Angeles To ensure you…

Cable-Tec Expo and the Keys to Capturing Cable Opportunities

Like most cable fans, I spent last week down in NOLA at the cable “Superbowl,” cable’s largest show of the year – Cable-Tec Expo. This year’s show theme was, “Raising the Bar on Technology Innovation,” which was so fitting because it echos the scale of solutions and technologies that Cisco is drivin…

Distance + Capacity = Cisco Sets Global Spectral Efficiency Record

Ask any network operator what keeps them up at night, and the ability to transport massive amounts of data is sure to come up in the conversation. Additionally, they’ll tell you that their data might require low latency, that it might be transactional, and that it definitely has to be encrypted. But…

Don’t Mix Up Your FECs

Written by Craig Pasek and Pat Chou, Product Managers, Transceiver Module Group When we introduced the 10/25G CSR (Cisco Short Reach) SFP28 transceiver (SFP-10/25G-CSR-S), we were happy to see that customers recognized its benefits right away. First, it offers longer reach than the IEEE standardize…

September 30, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Service Providers: The Quest to Attain NFV Enlightenment

The promise of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) was to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the network and to improve service agility (time-to-market). However, like all new technologies, the hype of expectations has subsided over time, and disillusionment has set-in for network Service Pro…

September 30, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo: “The 5G Opportunity for Cable”

I always look forward to the latest innovations in the cable market at SCTE-ISBE Cable-Tec Expo, and this year’s event in New Orleans is particularly exciting, marking the 50th anniversary of SCTE-ISBE with a fitting theme, “Raising the Bar on Technology Innovation.” We are committed to helping cabl…