5GRuralFirst
Walk a Mile in Their Rain Boots: The Innovative CX of 5G RuralFirst
Just about every organization is looking to innovate. Making it happen? Not so easy. Stephen Speirs explains how to bridge the gap from a blank sheet of paper to a great customer experience (CX). An almost 20-year veteran of Cisco, Stephen is a former software engineer who now works in Cisco…
Connecting the Unconnected: 5G and Wi-Fi 6 Will Play a Pivotal Role in Bridging the Digital Divide
Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona showcased some of the newest mobile innovations along with interactive 5G demos and a bevy of product announcements. In the midst of all this progress and promise, there remains an undeniable fact — there are still Internet access disparities between re…
The Open vRAN Wave is Building
The Open vRAN movement started with some smaller waves and the anticipation of a larger wave to form. It was driven by a belief that the fundamental way that mobile networks have been built for decades needed to evolve and improve. Legacy architectures, that were useful in the past, have outlived th…
Is this the World’s Most Ambitious Rural 5G Trial?! #TheBridgeToPossible
Lots has been happening on our 5G RuralFirst co-innovation, Country Digitization Acceleration (CDA) project being run by Cisco UK & Ireland. Within Cisco UK & Ireland, it is the Cisco Innovation team that is leading this ambitious 29 partner consortium. My own part of Cisco, the Customer Exp…
Cisco, Open VRAN Ecosystem and 5G RuralFirst at the TIP Summit in London
The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is a collaborative telecom community. Launched in February 2016, TIP was started with the goal of accelerating the pace of innovation in the telecommunications industry. This year Cisco is proud to be a Gold Sponsor at the upcoming TIP Summit – running on 16th…
Leading in 5G: We really are taking 5G to Orkney and more with 5G RuralFirst! (Part 2)
It’s been a quick year so far and my follow up to part 1 of this blog is long overdue. Back in December last year, Cisco led a 30 partner consortium to enter a UK government competition, to design, build and run innovative 5G Testbed and Trial programs. The government expected that consortia would…
Leading in 5G: Taking 5G to Orkney and Somerset – Part 1
“You’re doing … what?! And … where?! 5G? What’s that? And why in Orkney?!” Last weekend I took holiday Friday and Monday – including my Cisco “Birthday Day Off”– to travel to Switzerland for some early season skiing with friends. Inevitably we talked occasionally about work, and I mentioned…
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