mobility
Key Takeaways from Mobile World Congress
Mobile is everything and everything is mobile. On Day 1 of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Chuck Robbins succinctly described the “mobility explosion,” as a driver for innovation and a means for anyone and everyone to take advantage of the incredible advances we are seeing in technology. This explosive…
Service Provider Security Architecture – Part 2
In my earlier blog post, I described the need for pervasive security and architectural approaches to enable secure, agile services against increasingly sophisticated attackers. Pervasive security is critical to the Open Network Architecture (ONA). But what does pervasive security actually mean? Si…
Service Provider Security Architecture – Part 1
There has never been a more interesting time to be a Service Provider. Today, we are in the midst of a once in a generation transition in technology that we last saw with the birth of the internet. Today, the exponential growth in hyper-connectivity, the services that evolve upon it and the dawn o…
Creating Business Services and The Next Element
The excitement, the energy, the sore feet once again engulfed us in the beautiful city of Barcelona for arguably the greatest show on Earth – Mobile World Congress. Well, for those of us in networking, anyway. The theme for Mobile World Congress 2017 is: The Next Element. Upon reading “The Next Ele…
Continuing the HIMSS17 Conversation
HIMSS17 is over, but the drive toward innovation and digital transformation will continue! According to Modern Healthcare, 42,287 providers, C-suite executives, IT managers, clinicians, government employees, and vendors from around the world attended the conference, which was held last week in Orla…
Cisco@MWC: New Capabilities, Services & Customers, Setting the Foundation for 5G
Global leaders in wireless are here in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the gathering place for top-of-mind topics like architecting and building cloud-based service and IoT offerings – all while positioning for the inevitable shift to 5G. Cisco is here, showing off new technologies and solution…
5G Performance: More than an upgrade and potential for a mobile blockbuster
Commercial deployments for 5G are expected to launch in 2020 and to be available in every major global mobile market by 2021. Ovum Informa Telecoms and Media predicts that more than 50 operators will be offering 5G services in close to 30 countries by the end of 2021. However, the majority of 5G sub…
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…
Cisco Announces Important Steps toward Adoption of Information-Centric Networking
By Giovanna Carofiglio, Distinguished Engineer Today we announce three important milestones in the path of deployment of Information-Centric Networking technology in 5G mobile networks. Let’s start by explaining the concepts behind Information-Centric Networking (ICN). It is an approach to evolve th…