SP360: Service Provider
You’ve Got a What?
Ever heard that when you’ve told someone what device you just bought? Or perhaps ”You’ve already upgraded, does everything still work?” As more devices hit the market, they bring with them new platforms and operating systems. Add video delivery into the mix, and the terrain becomes even harder to…
Video Security Everywhere: From Creation to Consumption
Not that long ago, life was much easier. Video was delivered in a linear managed path and there was a well-defined process – from content creation to distribution to consumption – with distinct roles for content creators and service providers. Video infrastructure was largely isolated and used uniqu…
The Digital Transformation Comes With A New Approach to Service Assurance
NFV and SDN are past their hype cycle and way into gaining significant traction since their initial introductions into the market. Many of our customers who have deployed or plan to deploy our solutions based on these technologies understand that an important factor for realizing the full benefits o…
Sky Turns Its Vision of the Next-Generation TV Experience to Reality
By Yves Padrines, Vice President, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco It’s official: Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company with 21 million customers across five territories, is set to launch Sky Q, a next generation TV home entertainment system that will reinvent the way customers watch TV. S…
SON Isn’t Just Network KPI Improvements (Part 1)
Learn how Cisco SON helps MNO lower CAPEX and increase network efficiency The Challenge: In discussions with Mobile Network Operator (MNO) CTOs, the need for automation and simplification is a recurring theme. Legacy manual optimization methods are not keeping up with the network complexity and grow…
Looking Back at 2015 – A Tipping Point for the Internet of Things
2015 will be remembered as the year of the Internet of things. The tipping point when IoT went from the back rooms of the technology world to become mainstream. The consultancy McKinsey estimates that the Internet of Things – a world where up to 50 billion things (or devices) will be connected…
Join Us at CES 2016
It’s that time again — time to join 101,000 like-minded gadget and innovation enthusiasts for the “main event” in consumer technologies: The Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. We’re coming in heavy this year, in terms of news and announcements, all under the banner of “transformation th…
Cisco’s Connected Home…Reimagined
Guest Blog by: Steve Gorretta, Manager, Product Management, Cisco Service Provider Software and Solutions When you hear Cisco leadership discuss the transformation of our business and the drive to be the #1 IT company, you will no doubt hear some recurring themes around cloud management, big data an…
New DC Cloud Scale Platforms – What You Really Need to Know
The Cloud Scale launch in November focused on software enhancements to the industry’s most widely deployed high-end network operating system, IOS XR. While those points were important and well received, I want to emphasize a few points on the new NCS1002 platform that was launched within the Cloud S…