5G

At MWC, we are making a dozen innovation and customer momentum announcements including 5G Trials with Verizon.  Last week, Verizon announced it will deliver 5G service to pilot customers in 11 markets across the U.S. by mid-2017, and today we announced that we will be a key technology supplier for t…

Global leaders in wireless are here in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the gathering place for top-of-mind topics like architecting and building cloud-based service and IoT offerings – all while positioning for the inevitable shift to 5G. Cisco is here, showing off new technologies and solution…

Commercial deployments for 5G are expected to launch in 2020 and to be available in every major global mobile market by 2021. Ovum Informa Telecoms and Media predicts that more than 50 operators will be offering 5G services in close to 30 countries by the end of 2021. However, the majority of 5G sub…

By Giovanna Carofiglio, Cisco Distinguished Engineer 3 By 2020, 82% of all IP traffic will be video and two-thirds of all Internet traffic will be generated from wireless and mobile devices, according to Cisco VNI forecast. Video services are evolving (UHD 4K-8K video, Virtual/Augmented Reality) and…

By Giovanna Carofiglio, Distinguished Engineer Today we announce three important milestones in the path of deployment of Information-Centric Networking technology in 5G mobile networks. Let’s start by explaining the concepts behind Information-Centric Networking (ICN). It is an approach to evolve th…

5G needs to be architected to thrive in an environment where an increasingly higher percentage of overall mobile data is being consumed from indoor environments, and where the businesses that are responsible for those indoor environments are increasingly requiring wireless service be offered to all…

Digitization is opening up new business opportunities for Service Providers. 5G is enabing mobile operators to evolve their core and IP networks to deploy new revenue generating services and more impactful experiences bringing greater business agility, reduced cost, and complexity. 5G Network Evolut…

The 2017 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts that there will be about 25 million 5G capable devices and connections by 2021, which will generate 8.9 exabytes (EB) of annual mobile data traffic. Let’s compare that in context of the overall Mobile VNI Forecast. By 2021, there will be…

If you’ve been following Mobility you’ve probably read a blog or browsed a website touting the importance of the transformation to 5G. Research 5G a bit further and you’re likely to find volumes of information about the evolution of the radio access network (RAN) and exciting possibilities with virt…