Cisco Mobility
What does 5G mean for the modern retailer?
Imagine this: you walk into a fancy, big-box electronics retailer, excited to buy your next major purchase. You are approached by a salesperson who doesn’t know what you want and therefore isn’t sure how to help you pick out your dream purchase. You both try to look up the product information on the…
ACG Research says “Cisco Continues Market Share Leadership in Mobility”
As we head into the summer of 2018 and as the heat starts to roll in, the world’s mobile operators find their networks in a similar position – HOT! With all of the new mobile & IoT devices soon receiving gigabit access anywhere where 5G and LTE-A are available, the consumer and business person w…
Cisco Enables Operators to See Inside the 5G Network to Protect Customer Data
authored by Andrew Turner, Cisco Cybersecurity Manager Data: the currency of all modern companies. Successful acquisition, secure storage and accurate analysis of data can uniquely position companies for competitive success, and as many examples have shown, failure to secure that data…
Cisco 5G Now!
For the past few years, Cisco and the other technology vendors serving the Mobile Service Provider community have been talking about 5G Readiness. 5G is on the horizon – better start planning, better start thinking about what you are going to do. This product and that product is 5G ready. And what d…
Why Wait for 5G? The Challenges of Railway Connectivity – Solved – Today (Part 2)
Recently I blogged about how Cisco are working with ScotRail (the train operator) and Network Rail Telecom (the track operator) in Scotland to deliver a trial of the world’s fastest in-train WiFi, an evolution of work done earlier on “Project SWIFT”. I also described a school of thought that sugges…
Why Wait for 5G? The Challenges of Railway Connectivity – Solved – Today (Part 1)
This year’s UK budget day (23rd November 2017) has been an interesting day for technology. Technology plans were central topics – including a significant government 5G investment. As my Cisco UK colleague Matt Houlihan blogged earlier, Cisco is already working with Government to ensure that…
Blurring the lines – the three key areas for successful Mobile Video
September sees two significant events in the Service Provider world – the launch of the new iPhone, and the annual IBC gathering in Amsterdam. It was only a few years ago that these events wouldn’t really have been linked, yet now the mobile and video industries are closer than ever, with the lines…
There’s Never Been A Better Time To Make Roads Smarter
We often wish people “safe travels”.. yet how much do we consider what it means in today’s hyper-connected world? More than ever, technology has given us the ability to change the world. Inbar Lasser-Raab, recently shared how digitization is forcing cities and businesses to reimagine their business…
How 802.11ac Made Wireless the New Access
In recent years, wireless has become the preferred means of access for networks. This change may be have been inevitable to some, but why did this happen? What has changed to make this possible? Not too long ago, there was a time when wireless had the reputation of not having the reliability or perf…