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XR7, Not Just Another Release
When IOS XR was first designed, mass-scale networking and its related challenges were not around. However, we already had a clear vision of building a highly scalable, reliable, available, upgradeable, high-performance NOS for the service provider space that caters all the way from low-end single c…
VXLAN EVPN – De-Facto Standard, Open and Interoperable
Authored by Faraz Taifehesmatian: Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Why interoperability and standardization is relevant to you Interoperability provides options for you to mix and match the technology based on your business needs. Either you want to adapt new innovations, or refresh your infrastr…
Join Cisco at MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress in Paris
The MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2019 is right around the corner. It goes without saying that this conference is a must to attend as it succeeds in gathering a large panel of industry experts from hyper-scale providers, telcos, enterprises, universities and networking vendors. While this year’s agend…
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…
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…
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…
Interoperability in an open networking world
In an industry where open networking is increasingly valued by Service Providers, the need for interoperable solutions becomes even more important. At Cisco, innovation is in our DNA. Each year, we spend a significant amount of revenue on research and development (R&D) – up to 12.8 percent in 20…
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…
3rd Annual Interoperability Testing: Converging on a Standard
For the third year in a row, Cisco participated in the VXLAN BGP EVPN interoperability testing at the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). The interoperability showcase and test results are featured in the EANTC white paper as a part of the MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress. This year, a…
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