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Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 was a tremendous success. It was a very productive event, and the Cisco Services team and I enjoyed very positive interactions with many of our customers, partners, and colleagues from around the globe. What struck the team at MWC, was how our strategy is aligned to…

In response to growing customer expectations, service providers are changing the way they think about networking. Emerging services like 5G and ultra high definition video will require more bandwidth, speed and agility than many networks can currently support. Service providers are realising that th…

Service providers today are facing serious challenges. Developments like 5G and ultra high definition video are putting them under growing pressure to supply large bandwidths, fast speeds and low latencies. To address this, providers are realising that they can operate their networks more efficientl…

It was a busy week last week at Mobile World Congress 2018. We had great conversations with attendees about accelerating their success, met with the MWC team for an exec interview, and ate lots of local food. After this valuable opportunity to network and learn, our Cisco Services team is back home.…

Mobile World Congress followed Cisco Live Barcelona, and with it came many important announcements and blogs. With that excitement now behind us, I am writing to you today to share some of the key messages I conveyed during my Cisco Live keynote, “Transformation through Innovation”. Thousands of tec…

5G Now! Enabling Profitability for Service Providers As we engage with our customers and partners at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona, I cannot help but think of the major presence and disruptive technologies we have introduced with our 5G Now! announcement. From our Open vRAN to our te…

    authored by Andrew Turner, Cisco Cybersecurity Manager Data: the currency of all modern companies. Successful acquisition, secure storage and accurate analysis of data can uniquely position companies for competitive success, and as many examples have shown, failure to secure that data…

For the past few years, Cisco and the other technology vendors serving the Mobile Service Provider community have been talking about 5G Readiness. 5G is on the horizon – better start planning, better start thinking about what you are going to do. This product and that product is 5G ready. And what d…

Written by Bob Everson, Global Director, Mobility and 5G, Cisco Systems One of the biggest trends in the networking industry has been towards disaggregation – unbundling the components of the network into smaller, simpler components and virtualizing capability to reduce cost and increase agility. A…