5G

June 20, 2018

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Disaggregation! Disrupting the Service Provider Market

Market disruption and the explosion of bandwidth consumption are challenging SPs to scale up and increase agility whilst reducing costs. Challenged by major business disruption from web players and over-the-top providers, traditional SPs are looking at the strategies deployed by these competitors. O…

ACG Research says “Cisco Continues Market Share Leadership in Mobility”

As we head into the summer of 2018 and as the heat starts to roll in, the world’s mobile operators find their networks in a similar position – HOT! With all of the new mobile & IoT devices soon receiving gigabit access anywhere where 5G and LTE-A are available, the consumer and business person w…

The Cable Story, Part 3: How to Monetize the Pipe

In this third part of my ‘cable story’ blog, we’ll get into how to better monetize the pipe. It’s not a big secret that the video business is being commoditized. Actually, only a third of the serviceable cable homes and businesses in the U.S. are currently paying subscribers for cable video services…

5G Security Innovation with Cisco

We have been working with Service Providers and various colleagues across the world to develop the threat surface and use cases to properly apply 5G today and in applications coming tomorrow.  We call your attention to our white paper and to our session on this topic at Cisco Live US in Orlando.  Th…

Service Provider Cheat Sheet: Sessions at Cisco Live Orlando

Are you a Service Provider seeking relevant sessions at Cisco Live Orlando? Here’s a cheat sheet for various speaking sessions we’ve crafted for you — enjoy!   5G & Mobility Sessions   Monday, June 11 1:30 PM 5G Technology Updates Tuesday, June 12 8:00 AM Deployi…

Come Join us at Cisco Live 2018!

Cisco Live Orlando 2018 is less than one month away and it’s your opportunity to sharpen your skills while you learn from the best on how to run your world-class network. This year’s Cisco Live in Orlando is shaping up to be the biggest and most content rich for service providers ever. Here is a qui…

Cisco Mobile Packet Core – Automating Mobile Data Into The 5G Future

  This blog was authored by Greg Walsh, Senior Marketing Manager at Cisco Mobile Business Group   As a society, the critical role of mobile broadband in our lives continues to test new levels every day. While still falling short of Abraham Maslow’s definition of the six human needs for sur…

Imagine What’s Possible in a 5G World

Stop where you are and consider this: there’s a colossal chance you’re reading this text on your mobile phone. Are you? Maybe not, but probably so. However, even if you’re not reading this text on your phone, statistics suggest you’ve read an article or a blog or some other web-based text on your mo…

March 26, 2018

CLOUD

Cloud Unfiltered Podcast, Episode 39: OpenStack Update from VMware’s Mark Voelker

OK, I’ll cop to this right up front: I called my most recent guest “Vekler.” On tape. The problem with that is that his name is not Vekler. It’s Voelker. Sounds like “Velker.” With the L before the K. He patiently explained this to me prior to the recording, when I asked him how to pronounce his nam…