MWC
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…
Sponsorship fuels a rich and diverse pipeline
Take The Multiplier Effect pledge today. Sponsorship is essential to creating rich and diverse teams. Having a rich pipeline of diversity is very important for me as I believe diverse teams are the best teams. Two years ago at Mobile World Congress, Cisco introduced The Multiplier Effect, which asks…
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…
MWC Series: Ultra Packet Core with CUPS to Deliver 5G Broadband Services for STC
In Saudi Arabia, the strong growth in mobile users, smartphones, mobile video consumption and IoT connections are projected to significantly increase mobile data traffic over the next five years. At a global level, Cisco forecasts that 5G will account for 1.5 percent of total mobile data traffic by…
MWC Series: STC Adopts Big Data and SDN Analytics Solution to Ramp Up Security
As malware becomes increasing malicious, and cyberattacks proliferate on a global scale, protection against cybersecurity threats is now vital for service providers. According to the Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study, 87% of companies in EMEAR admitted they had suffered a cyberattack…