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Service Providers: Join Cisco at MWC 2020
It’s February again that means Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona is just a few weeks away. I know everyone at Cisco is looking forward to seeing all of you at what is arguably the biggest and most impactful technology event of the year (well, maybe tied with Cisco Live!). We look forward to…
The First Steps in Transforming to 5G
5G dominated the headlines coming out of Mobile World Congress 2019 with many announcements of new handsets and network components. To hear what Cisco announced at Mobile World Congress, read Jonathan Davidson’s blog. 5G is the newest mobile standard that offers a significant increase in mobile bro…
Driving the Wi-Fi 6 conversation at Mobile World Congress 2019
At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show last week in Barcelona, it was interesting to see the device makers roll out mobile handsets with the latest wireless technologies: 5G and Wi-Fi 6. I’d like to focus on Wi-Fi 6 for the moment. This upgrade will provide faster speeds and more efficiency to wire…
MWC19 Hot Topics: Cisco Customer Experience Recap
MWC19: When the world’s leading Service Providers get together with the Cisco Customer Experience team, the paths to making future technologies a reality materialize. 5G The hottest topic by far, (following folding phones, of course), was 5G. Our CEO Chuck Robbins was joined on the main stage with R…
MWC Series: Readying Fastweb’s Network for the 5G Era
This year at Mobile World Congress 2019, we shared the news of our partnership with Fastweb on a network modernization project that will enhance the capabilities and performances of Fastweb fiber-based network. This project will put the Italy-based operator in the right position to meet the growing…
MWC Series: Mobily and ITC Select Cisco to Build State-of-the-Art Network to Support Future Growth
There is another exciting partnership in the works for Cisco. We have partnered with Saudi National Fiber Network (SNFN) Partners, Etihad Etisalat “Mobily”, Bayant Al-Ola, and Integrated Telecom Company “ITC”, on a project to modernize and upgrade SNFN network to prepare for the next phase of growth…
MWC Series: Building a Unified Cloud Across Multiple Data Centers with du
Application innovation is at the heart of United Arab Emirate’s digital economy and country transformation. A new era of applications is redefining what data centers are and what they need to support. Today, the data center is no longer a fixed place; it needs to exist wherever data is created, proc…
NSO 5: Getting Ready for What Comes Next
While I love our ops guys, to be honest, ops reports can be eye-wateringly boring. However, our spreadsheet Jedi recently pointed out something that was, instead, eye-opening: The number of Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) device licenses we are selling (actual licenses, not through ELAs, e…
MWC Series: Etisalat UAE and Cisco announced the first Self-Driving Internet Peering Network for Middle East and Africa
We at Cisco have successfully achieved a key milestone with Etisalat UAE which is to deploy the first segment routing technology in the region over its international network with closed-loop automation. Together, we are introducing automation and software-defined networking (SDN) to the service prov…