NFV

The engine under the hood of Cisco Enterprise NFV We’ve all heard that saying, “What is under that hood?” That question refers to “the kick-ass” capability not obvious at first glance. Starting today that question will have a new meaning. A few weeks ago Cisco launched the first NFV solution for the…

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…

There was a time when the network was thought of as a bottleneck to innovation. It is the weakest link in the chain. Its rigid, inflexible and labor-laden infrastructure inhibits growth for the business, productivity for its workforce, and diminishes the experiences for customers. Those days are lon…

Virtualizing your network functions and decoupling them from specific hardware can help you simplify operations, automate service delivery, and make money more quickly. Find out how to do it the right way in our latest Fundamentals installment. At one level, NFV (Network Function Virtualization) is…

By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cisco will be at OFC, the world’s premier optical event again showcasing our industry leading Packet Optical Convergence innovations and solutions. We encourage you to be part of the experience by visiting our Exposition boo…

A simple and easy way to design, provision and manage the services you trust on any platform Recall a situation where you were stuck in a traffic jam. While waiting, you see on your GPS another road paralleled to your existing one, empty with no cars at all. Didn’t you wish you could cross over to t…

It’s been a year since Comcast commented on the importance of Segment Routing in an announcement we made at MPLS World Congress 2015. The topic sparked even more interest after Dave Ward’s keynote (see featured content) at this very same event. Since then, Segment Routing is a top-of-mind topic and…

Part I: Attn: Networking Professionals – It’s Time to Change the World Again. My fellow networkers, it’s time for the network to take the center stage once again. For a while now, IT professionals have been noticing the growing buzz around networking. Innovative new network developments – Open APIs,…

Exaprobe, subsidiary of respected digital technology integrator and cloud service provider Econocom in France, rolled-out new Cloud Security Services as part of their Security Threat Assessment and Response Center (STARC) offering. The STARC services provide Exaprobe customers industry-leading prote…