SP360: Service Provider
Cisco Lights Up Paris with Transformational Innovations
Cisco is proud to be a triple diamond sponsor of MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2016, which runs from March 8-11 at the Marriott Paris Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Center in Paris, France. (For the uninitiated, that’s quite a jumble of acronyms — spelled out, it stands for “Multi-Protocol Lab…
Cisco NFV Infrastructure Solution – Carrier Class Network Functions Virtualization
Written By Volker Tegtmeyer, Senior Manager Product & Solution Marketing The adoption of Network Functions Virtualization is a top item on every Service Providers’ agenda. Agility, Flexibility and Cost Reductions are the drivers pushing for network transformation. Cisco is announcing Cisco NFV I…
Seeking real answers from MWC16
The annual gathering that is Mobile World Congress (MWC) is upon us again. As always there will be the usual hype around 3 letter acronyms like NFV, SDN, SON, IoT and of course 5G (ok not a TLA). As I fine tune the Cisco Mobility strategy for my APAC region, I see these as just enablers, to get Serv…
Cisco’s Key to Telecom Success: “Transformation Through Innovation”
The origins of the telecommunications service provider industry evoke thoughts of stable, even staid, providers of commodity communication services. Not that long ago, it was not very easy to distinguish service provider A from B, C and D. My how times have changed. At this week’s Mobile World Congr…
Cisco VoWi-Fi Solution for Today’s Voice Demands
The first time I experienced Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi), I was on the receiving end of the call. One of my colleagues called us with an OTT voice app using the airplane Wi-Fi. Not surprisingly, the sound quality was terrible, but we were able to communicate our message to him after repeating it a f…
Building a Platform for Cloud Profitability
Demand for cloud services is exploding. The Cisco Global Cloud Index now forecasts that cloud traffic will grow by more than 30 percent in every region in the world over the next five years. In all, global cloud traffic will quadruple by 2019. It’s a huge business opportunity for cloud service provi…
Transforming into a Mobile Cloud Services Provider
Mobile network operators face interesting challenges today. Their customers have fully embraced the digital world, and that digital world keeps expanding. Most individuals have multiple devices, and more “things” are getting connected each day. However, for the most part, revenues for the Mobile ope…
More On What’s Powering Shaw’s “Free Range TV” Offering
We call it our Virtualized Video Processor, or “V2P”. Shaw Communications gave it a much more consumer-friendly name — “Free Range TV,” which launched during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. In this video interview, Cisco VP of Product Management, Jeff Seebeck discusses the over-arching…
Digi-Know? Getting to Multi-Screen Video Is a Days & Weeks Thing — Not a Months & Years Thing
In this kickoff video for our new “Digi-Know” video series, Cisco’s Senior Director of Cloud Solutions, Rajeev Raman, discusses the shift of streaming video from a “interesting, let’s dabble” mindset to a “it’s ON, this is real” intention amongst service providers and content owners. Rajeev, whom we…