mobile service providers

5G Converged IP Transport: Get the Lowdown on Total Cost of Ownership(TCO)

Today, many Service Providers face stalled growth, shifting demands from the consumer market to the enterprise market, increasing regulatory pressures, and mounting competition. As a result, they are seeking new ways to fund and deploy their 5G infrastructure to capture new customers. However in ord…

November 13, 2017

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Forrester Research – Enhancing Digital Business Customer Experience with Automation

Business mobile devices can be a lifeline for increasing employee productivity – but how do your business customers realize value when the costs of managing enterprise mobility are so high? This was the focus of a new study, released today by Cisco, in which Forrester was commissioned to survey over…

Mobile Network Security Paves the Road to 5G

With the evolution of LTE, LTE-Advanced, and 5G, mobile network architectures are becoming more IP-based. While these new technologies push the performance of wireless cellular networks to new levels, they also increase the attack surface, opening mobile networks, devices, and customers to a host of…

February 27, 2017

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Be the First to Deliver a Secure Network

Written by Monika Gupta, Cloud Security Products team at Cisco We’ve all seen the proliferation of threats across organizations of all sizes. Cyber attacks continue to become more sophisticated and severe, impacting intellectual property, finances, and organizational reputations.  Security is a conc…

February 27, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Enables a Secure Path to Network Transformation for Mobile Operators

For your customers, their connected device has become the center of their world. A typical day might go something like this. Wake up and ask a virtual assistant for the weather. Video chat with colleagues in preparation for a meeting. Incorporate high-speed video to create a winning sales presentati…

February 24, 2017

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5G Mobile Video with Hybrid ICN – Fast, Secure, Simplified

By Giovanna Carofiglio, Cisco Distinguished Engineer 3 By 2020, 82% of all IP traffic will be video and two-thirds of all Internet traffic will be generated from wireless and mobile devices, according to Cisco VNI forecast. Video services are evolving (UHD 4K-8K video, Virtual/Augmented Reality) and…

February 16, 2017

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Which Mobile Provider Will Win the UK’s Autonomous Car Race?

I had the misfortune recently to have a car accident.  Airbags deployed, two cars written off, scary stuff.  Thankfully, both the other driver and I both walked away, very much shaken, but unhurt.  And thankfully the crash happened at not too high a speed which contributed to what I will call our ‘g…

February 15, 2017

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Transform Your 5G Mobile Networks With a New Approach to Security!

Digitization is opening up new business opportunities for Service Providers. 5G is enabing mobile operators to evolve their core and IP networks to deploy new revenue generating services and more impactful experiences bringing greater business agility, reduced cost, and complexity. 5G Network Evolut…

Part 2: The Ski Centre Queues and the Service Provider Internet of Things Opportunity

Last week, in Part 1, I blogged about the bizarre association of queues at my local ski centre and unreliable access to cloud payment services. Being located in an area of poor internet provision, the resulting unreliable and slow access to cloud services means that credit card payments process slow…