Network Service Orchestration

Hello, it is that time of the year again!  Cisco Live US is upon us. If you are coming to Cisco Live US 2018 that is taking place in Orlando from June 10 through June 14, I’d like to tell you about Network Orchestration and Automation resources that you can take advantage of.  We have been sharing o…

Service providers are at a junction – they can either drift into irrelevance, or join the fast-moving digital world The business world has changed – and digital companies are leading the transformation. One successful business powering the new digital future is Amazon, through Amazon Web Services, i…

The world is going digital. And networking is going virtual. For service providers, it’s both a challenge and an opportunity. It all starts with shifting customer demands. Consumers want more video. Businesses want services on demand. And by 2020 there will be an estimated 24 billion devices connect…

The growth of the IoT and new customer expectations are making networking more complex. Carried out effectively, virtualisation can help service providers overcome this challenge, enabling them to get closer to their customers The recent launch of Google Home, the smart speaker and virtual assistant…

Done carelessly, network virtualisation can have the opposite effect to what’s intended. Considering the network as a whole makes it possible to provide agile services while retaining carrier class reliability Networking is changing fast, as customers come to expect more agile services, delivered fr…

Customers are increasingly expecting flexible, on-demand services. Changing your network through virtualisation is key to being able to meet these demands These days, people’s lives are busier and less predictable. Circumstances change quickly, and plans can be adjusted just as fast. To meet this si…

In the future, service providers are likely to use more complex network models, with orchestration used to draw together diverse physical and virtual elements More and more telecom operators and IT service providers are deciding to go digital, as the benefits of being able to offer customers bespoke…

Telecom operators: The key pillars of virtualization Cisco believes a virtual network should be more than the sum of its parts As businesses go digital, they will need new kinds of networks to support them – networks that allow them to deliver the flexible, adaptable products their customers now exp…

Guest blog by Dr. Stefan Vallin, Principle Architect , Cisco and  Mats Nordlund, CTO, Netrounds  Over the recent years, network service orchestration has gained widespread traction from communication service providers (CSPs) all around the world as a means to automate the tedious and error-prone tas…