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At the Heart of Asia’s Mobile Growth Momentum

Catching up on the feats and achievements of your favorite Asian athletes at the Rio Olympics?, Thanks to the power of over-the-top (OTT) content streaming, sports fans in Asia Pacific are able to catch the live sporting action at all hours of the day — very often beamed directly to their smartphone…

Setting Sights on IoT Opportunities in Asia Pacific

The Internet of Things (IoT) is on course to transform businesses and create new revenue opportunities — is your organization ready to exploit it? It’s a recurring topic of interest that crops up frequently during my conversations with business leaders in the service provider industry. As networked…

December 17, 2015

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Telecom Asia Readers Rate Cisco VPC as NFV Innovation of the Year

Telecom Asia has recently announced the winners of their 8th Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards. For the Cisco Mobility team it was a proud moment to receive the award for “NFV Innovation of the Year” for our Virtual Packet Core (VPC) solution. As a reader’s choice award it validates Cisco’s in…

Cisco Networking Academy Empowers the Disabled in Sri Lanka

This post was written by guest blogger Emma Reid, marketing manager for Cisco’s Social Innovation Group, Asia-Pacific region. In 2001, the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) launched the Network on Disability, a program designed to connect Sri Lanka’s disabled community to meaningful jobs. …

November 12, 2015

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Mobility IQ Innovation Recognised with LTE Asia Award

The Cisco wireless access analytics solution “Mobility IQ” won the top prize for the “Most Innovative Big Data Platform/Service” at the 10th annual LTE Asia Awards this month in Singapore. So what is so innovative about this solution, given that Wireless Access analytics is not a new area in the in…

February 11, 2015

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APAC leads Global mobile trends

The annual Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Forecast, just out, once again shows the phenomenal growth expected in the mobile industry, e.g. more than 5.2 billion global mobile users by 2019 and 10-fold mobile traffic growth over the next five years. See Thomas Barnett’s…

Gotta Love Fiber!

As President of Fiber to the Home Council Asia-Pacific, I am really excited about the forthcoming annual conference to be held in May 19-21, 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand. Let’s look at some of the compelling facts for the region: By year-end 2016, nine economies are forecasted to reach FTTx househo…