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Vodafone Idea Limited automates the India mobile enterprise with Cisco
Vodafone Idea Limited, the largest telecom service provider in India, is deploying a state-of-the-art, automated multicloud network across the country to enable an unmatched experience for its retail and enterprise customers. Vodafone Idea Limited’s automated cloud scale architecture is synchronized…
Enabling Rakuten Cloud Platform with Cisco NFVI and Orchestration Solutions
By this time, many of you might have followed the exciting news of the launch of commercial friendly user trial by Rakuten Mobile Network Inc. (referred as just “Rakuten” in this blog post) – the newest and the 4th mobile network operator in Japan. Rakuten Inc., the parent company, is well known in…
Managing the 5G Telco Cloud
5G is poised to change the entire playing field for mobile service providers. The technology enables service providers to move away from competing on price to truly differentiating their services. In Asia Pacific, the Cisco VNI predicts that 5G will account for 1.4% of total mobile data traffic by 2…
What is Network Service Mesh and Why Do We Need It?
You love Kubernetes, right? I don’t use it personally because that’s not my job, but when I talk to someone who does, the experience they describe sounds nothing less than fabulous. By automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized apps, it has eliminated a lot of the repetitive…
Automating the Network in a Multicloud World
Authored by Jared Headley, Senior Director of Cloud Platforms and Services Twenty-five years ago, the pain in my wrists was unbearable. I was spending 10-12 hours a day creating presentations about the OSI model and the power of a multiprotocol network (yeah, I’m old). After visiting a doctor and…
It’s Time to Vote for OpenStack Summit Speakers!
Have you been to the OpenStack Summit lately? If you haven’t, I’ll let you in on a not-at-all-closely-guarded secret: It’s not just about OpenStack anymore. Shoot, you can probably argue that it’s not even primarily about OpenStack anymore. It’s about containers and aut…
Why Cisco SD-Branch is better than a ‘white box’
A typical branch office IT installation consists of multiple point products, each having a specific function, engineered into a rigid topology. Changing something in that chain, be it adding a new function or connection, increasing bandwidth, or introducing encryption, affects multiple separate prod…
virl up – NetDevOps Network Simulation Done Right
Are you ready to have your mind blown by something so cool you’ll wonder how you lived without it before? Of course you are… so without further a-do let me introduce you to virlutils, the NetDevOps command line tool for Cisco VIRL and Cisco CML. If you are not familiar with VIRL or CML,…
Meet the Network Orchestration Experts at Cisco Live US 2018
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…