5G
Driving Transformation: Cisco and Ericsson Services
Service Providers and Enterprises are constantly striving to keep pace with user demand and expectations. The drive to transform networks in a timely manner while maintaining service quality and constraining incremental costs is an ongoing challenge. With 77,000 Service professionals around the worl…
Wait For It, Wait For It, 5G. It’s Here!!!
5G in the 3.5 GHz Band is Here We have been talking about 5G for what seems forever, but it has only been a few years and happy to say we are finally moving forward. We have been procrastinating about 5G and our next generation networks because of our dream of its potential to be a greater step forw…
At the front of digitization
The disruption of businesses used to take decades, but, today, digitization is changing the business landscape at an unprecedented rate. While this is a global phenomenon, it is, in particular, showcased in Asia Pacific, where, on a recent trip, I was able to meet with customers who are on the cutti…
Segment Routing Blazes a Trail in Germany!
Picture this, by 2021, there will be 4.6 billion global Internet users, 27.1 billion networked devices and connections, and 82 percent of all IP traffic will be video, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. What’s even more amazing is that more members of the global population (7.8 billion ac…
Cisco joins Open Air Interface to accelerate open multi-vendor RAN splits
Back in February we announced the open-nfapi project, a set of libraries and simulators that implement the Small Cell Forum’s nFAPI MAC/PHY split base station architecture. We described the need for many of the verticals identified as targets for new 5G use cases to be able to serve all employees, c…
Why 5G will need to be funded by the IoT
Why 5G will need to be funded by the IoT The continued explosion of smart mobile devices for connected users with increasing appetite for high-definition video, is fuelling a surge in mobile data traffic worldwide. Service providers coping with such growth need to find new ways to monetise their ne…
Cisco’s 3-Phase Plan for your 5G success
It is generally accepted that revenues for mobile service providers are trending flat to down. A recent ARPU report from Informa provides this picture in detail by country. Some mobile service providers have acquired content services as a way to boost this trend, but they admit that this too will ev…
Imagining 5G: The Future Network of ”Things”. The Evolving Landscape of IoT and Wearables
The 2017 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts, for the first time, 5G connections and traffic. We estimate, there will be about 25 million global 5G-capable devices and connections by 2021 (representing 0.2 percent of total mobile devices and connections). Those 5G devices and connec…
Key Takeaways from Mobile World Congress
Mobile is everything and everything is mobile. On Day 1 of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Chuck Robbins succinctly described the “mobility explosion,” as a driver for innovation and a means for anyone and everyone to take advantage of the incredible advances we are seeing in technology. This explosive…