cloud native

The astute among you may recall that just a few months ago – specifically, at the ANGA conference in June – we announced a new Cloud Native Broadband Router, the cnBR, aimed at making the industry’s CCAP deployments radically more feasible and economical. This week, going into the Cable-Tec Expo, I’…

Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) is the most significant cable network architecture evolution of the last 20 years. Not since the introduction of digital fiber optic backbones and hybrid fiber coax (HFC) technology has there been such a dramatic architectural change. This is an exciting time fo…

In IT, the “next big thing” happens a lot. With technology moving so fast and shifting so quickly, sometimes it’s unclear where to best invest your time, effort, and dollars. In the cloud corner of IT, one of the next big things has been happening for a couple years now—cloud native computing. The r…

In my previous post, I talked about the ‘cable story’ and the steps service providers need to take, today, in order to leverage their competitive asset – the cable network — and to gain tactical and strategic business advantages. In this post, I will expand on one of these steps – namely, the…

  This blog was authored by Greg Walsh, Senior Marketing Manager at Cisco Mobile Business Group   As a society, the critical role of mobile broadband in our lives continues to test new levels every day. While still falling short of Abraham Maslow’s definition of the six human needs for sur…

What do you know about CNCF? You probably hear people in the industry mention the acronym fairly often—generally in connection with Kubernetes—but do you know what it is, when it started, or why it exists? I didn’t, and I suspect that at least some of you don’t either, so this week I invited Dan Koh…

What first comes to mind when you hear the term “cloud native?” Do you think software? Software that was developed in the cloud? Software that didn’t have to be rewritten in order to live happily in a dynamic digital environment? Fair enough. That’s a natural reaction. A legitimate reaction. A…

Are we all comfortable with the term “multicloud” yet? Used to be that we just had “the cloud,” then “public and private clouds,” then “hybrid cloud,” and now it seems that most companies are running a little bit of everything, so we needed a new term, and just like that we’ve arrived at the doorste…

Written by Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer, Cable Access Business Unit Web-scale giants, like Amazon, Google and Facebook, design their infrastructure, applications and deployments to be cloud native because this is the ideal environment for supporting their core applications, including sear…