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5G IP Transport – A Strategic Opportunity for Service Providers
The race to 5G is intensifying as exemplified by a number of public announcements made by leading mobile operators. However, deeper conversations with service providers yield a very simple but important question. How will we make the investments in 5G upgrades profitable? The bet is that 5G technol…
Documenting Network Automation Examples on DevNet Code Exchange
It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges network engineers face when they embark on the network automation journey is the lack of concise documentation in open source projects. In many cases, I find myself digging through the code of projects to understand how to use it (therefore my…
Cisco ASR 9000 Reloaded For Mass Scale Networking
The wide-spread adoption of the Internet is simply phenomenal. 2018 marks the year where the number of Internet users has surpassed half of the world’s population with 3.6B users. And, according to Cisco VNI, IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent from 2016 to 202…
Meet the Network Orchestration Experts at Cisco Live US 2018
Hello, it is that time of the year again! Cisco Live US is upon us. If you are coming to Cisco Live US 2018 that is taking place in Orlando from June 10 through June 14, I’d like to tell you about Network Orchestration and Automation resources that you can take advantage of. We have been sharing o…
Network Automation Update – the Maturing of NFV Deployment
We at Cisco have been delivering network orchestration and automation products for a number of years now. Our customers have deployed Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) with NFV Orchestration (NFVO) and Elastic Services Controller (ESC) to orchestrate physical and virtual network in productio…
The YANG Language – Up, up and away!
The work on YANG started as a direct response to the initial traction of the NETCONF protocol. Basically users saying that a protocol is good and well, but unless there is a formal description of the content that clients can manipulate, there may be not much win to be had. So off we went to write a…
5G Now! Enabling Profitability for Service Providers
5G Now! Enabling Profitability for Service Providers As we engage with our customers and partners at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona, I cannot help but think of the major presence and disruptive technologies we have introduced with our 5G Now! announcement. From our Open vRAN to our te…
The Future of Telecom Networks: Programmed to Succeed
When it comes to creating fast, flexible, on-demand services, programmability is key Programmability is an exciting area of network technology that creates a world of new agile services for service providers. It’s immensely powerful because it decouples the services themselves from the underlying ha…
Fast Tracking Network Automation
Itential Pronghorn Platform Extends Cisco Network Services Orchestrator’s Automation Service providers seeking to reduce costs and improve revenue know that increasing network automation and orchestration brings significant benefits. Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to…
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