MWC 2016
MWC16 takeaways
Mobile World Congress (MWC) continues to set records for attendance with 101,000 people through the doors according to GSMA. At our Cisco booth we hosted over 450 meetings with Service Providers, and as usual the discussions were frank and insightful. The “smorgasbord” of topics covered with our cu…
Ericsson Partner to Create Next-Generation Network for 3 Italia
Last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ericsson announced plans with business and technology partner Cisco to support 3 Italia’s mobile IP backbone network transformation. The two industry leaders will combine their expertise to deploy and integrate a variety of technologies and services t…
Vodafone Germany Completes Trial of Intelligent Access Selection
As I was walking in the neighborhood this past weekend, I had a very frustrating experience between my Wi-Fi and cellular network. I was listening to my favorite radio station, streaming it via an app on my phone. As I walked further and further away from my home, the radio stream halted due to a we…
IoT Takes Center Stage at Mobile World Congress 2016
At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona last week, we caught up with Ruba Borno, Cisco’s Vice President of Growth Initiatives and Chief of Staff to CEO, Chuck Robbins.…
Cisco NFV Infrastructure Solution – Carrier Class Network Functions Virtualization
Written By Volker Tegtmeyer, Senior Manager Product & Solution Marketing The adoption of Network Functions Virtualization is a top item on every Service Providers’ agenda. Agility, Flexibility and Cost Reductions are the drivers pushing for network transformation. Cisco is announcing Cisco NFV I…
Security Enables Next Generation Business Outcomes
The Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona is host to almost 100,000 attendees. That’s a lot of people! Since the mobile industry has such a significant impact on the world and the worldwide economy, no wonder there is so much interest. This is an industry that employed nearly 13 million men a…
Seeking real answers from MWC16
The annual gathering that is Mobile World Congress (MWC) is upon us again. As always there will be the usual hype around 3 letter acronyms like NFV, SDN, SON, IoT and of course 5G (ok not a TLA). As I fine tune the Cisco Mobility strategy for my APAC region, I see these as just enablers, to get Serv…
Cisco’s Key to Telecom Success: “Transformation Through Innovation”
The origins of the telecommunications service provider industry evoke thoughts of stable, even staid, providers of commodity communication services. Not that long ago, it was not very easy to distinguish service provider A from B, C and D. My how times have changed. At this week’s Mobile World Congr…
Cisco VoWi-Fi Solution for Today’s Voice Demands
The first time I experienced Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi), I was on the receiving end of the call. One of my colleagues called us with an OTT voice app using the airplane Wi-Fi. Not surprisingly, the sound quality was terrible, but we were able to communicate our message to him after repeating it a f…