Cisco IOS XR
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…
ASR 9901 – More choice and flexibility in your hands
Innovation, quality and customer focus are part of Cisco DNA. Our customers expressed the need to have a platform that is compact, dense, flexible, feature rich and supports programmability. I’m thrilled to announce the availability of ASR 9901 – a compact Two-Rack-Unit (2RU) platform designed for a…
Yes – Cisco IOS XR Is Disaggregated!
It’s a really exciting day for all of us in the Service Provider Business as we are formally disaggregating the Cisco IOS XR operating system. You can read specific details about this in Sumeet Arora’s blog here. Our disaggregation story continues to build momentum, and it’s great to see Cisco conti…
An Architectural Approach to Flexible Consumption for Service Providers with IOS XR
Today, Yvette Kanouff, posted a blog explaining how Cisco is expanding our software disaggregation capabilities in the areas where it makes the most sense, for added scale and functionality, and to provide more flexible options for customers who need it. What does this mean for Cisco Service Provide…
Continuous Innovation with IOS XR
Digitization impacts every industry and makes software more predominant than ever. The networking industry is no exception to it. As barriers to entry get much lower than in the past, merely delivering software innovations no longer suffices – it needs to be done with high velocity and quality. More…
Automating Cisco ACI with Ansible Eliminates Repetitive Day-to-Day Tasks
Guest blog by: Jacob McGill Network Automation Engineer Network to Code Ansible has quickly become a popular platform for network engineers to get started with network automation and eliminate repetitive day to day tasks. There have been Ansible plug-ins (in the form of modules) for Cisco IOS, NX-OS…
Cisco Networking Software Helps Build the New Network
Clearly, there is a massive transformation going on in the Service Provider sector. In fact, Cisco predicts that by 2021, the number of connected devices will be three times the global population, IP traffic will reach 3.3 zettabytes on an annualized basis, and broadband speeds will double to 53 me…
We Transform Together! Cisco IOS XR Cloud-Scale Networking In Action!
MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017 was a great success this year. I was extremely pleased with momentum in the area of Cisco’s IOS XR Software Innovations supporting our customers network transformation use cases for Cloud-Scale Networking. In the pre-show blog I alluded to this conference as the pla…
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