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Reinventing the Internet: Solving Communication Service Provider Bandwidth Issues with Better Network Design
Guest blog by Rajesh Ghai, Research Director, Carrier Network Infrastructure, IDC Every day, more applications migrate to the cloud. Corporate networks increasingly stream rich data such as video, and real-time services such as 5G and IoT drive more low-latency connections and bandwidth demands. Wit…
SOS! My Peering is Under Attack!
What happened? Now that the Internet has become critical to our day-day lives we really feel the impact when it goes down. While the origin of the Internet – the so-called “ARPANET” was built for resiliency and redundancy there are some hidden vulnerabilities that can undermine its stability. One ke…
Cisco NCS 5500 Welcomes 400GE and Doubles Installed Base
I recently had the good fortune to spend time with some of our big Service Provider customers. On the way back from my trip, I had time to reflect on the tectonic shifts that will play out in the SP market over the coming years, and how Cisco’s own investment in architectures, systems, silicon, and…
Join Cisco at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris
The MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2019 is right around the corner. It goes without saying that this conference is a must to attend as it succeeds in gathering a large panel of industry experts from hyper-scale providers, telcos, enterprises, universities and networking vendors. While this year’s agend…
The “Plane” Truth: Skyport, Ensoft, and Singularity Acquisitions
Last week, I was boarding a flight home from the always great Cisco Live Barcelona. I travel a fair amount, so the plane routine is, well, routine. #CLEUR had been a long but productive week of phenomenal conversations with our customers, partners, and fellow Cisco-ites. Reflecting on the week, and…