SP360: Service Provider

It’s been a year since I wrote this blog detailing our software innovations aimed at helping Service Providers address the ever-increasing challenges imposed by digitization. IOS XR for cloud-scale networking has really taken flight since then and I am proud to share with you some highlights from th…

We’ve talked about how Cisco is helping network operators leverage the tools of the data center to better manage the network. To show a real world example of this a few weeks back Cisco and Ansible teamed up for SDx Demo Friday. We showed how to manage large-scale networks using Cisco IOS XR applica…

Tasked with answering the question of “Why is a Remote PHY Architecture is better than a Remote MAC/PHY architecture” it would be prudent to articulate first what advantages Remote PHY has to offer over other proprietary solutions and let the readers draw their own conclusion. Let’s first call out i…

Digitization is critical for businesses everywhere – and the opportunity for service provides lies in their ability to enable it. This is why it requires a new approach to networking that is simpler, more efficient, and enables carriers to grow their business. See for yourself… Global IP traffic wi…

Cloud computing has become the virtual bedrock for today’s business and consumer applications as well as future offerings on the service horizon. Cloud plays a pivotal role in digital transformation and has literally reshaped global data centers. While this is widely understood, I believe the real c…

By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco “The wonderful thing about “standards” is that there are so many to choose from! So how do we in the “Cable industry” define a Standard? In short, we’d take the approach that a Standard is a set of published specific…

The most immediate benefit of segment routing is the major operational savings it brings about. By enabling the network to provision its resources more efficiently in an automated way, it gets a better performance from your infrastructure. But this is far from the only benefit. Segment routing techn…

Network managers may be as gripped by the latest online TV series as much as their customers. They may not feel quite so thrilled, though, when they see the demand on their service doubling every 18 months as a result of the binge-watching trend. It’s no secret that the popularity of video content –…

Download our new 5G ebook, Three Keys to Success Preparing Your Mobile Network for 5G 5G is coming, 5G is coming!!! That’s what our technology Paul Reveres are calling as they ride through our industry journals. And they are right, 5G is coming and it’s coming fast. Oh what to do, and what to do fir…