NSO

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017 is just around the corner and I want to explain why I think this is a must-see event. Simplification, automation and virtualization are words that have been used by marketers, like myself for years. I think we can all agree, at some point, for these words to become r…

Cisco recently announced the availability of a new Cisco Powered services designation entitled Cisco Powered Cloud Managed SD-WAN (software-defined wide area networking) under a new Cisco Powered services category named Cloud Managed DNA Services.  This new category of services will enable our Cloud…

Of course, there are plenty of good reasons to visit The Hague! For those who’ve never been there before, The Hague (Den Haag in Dutch) is a city located in the western coast of the Netherlands. It is actually the seat of the Dutch government, but the city is not the capital of the Netherlands, whic…

Cisco Live has never been the same since this event was first launched. One of the key recent accomplishments has been adding the service provider booth to the main campus thus establishing SP presence on the main show floor. This year we are enjoying the redesigned SP booth with new additional feat…

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cancun is a paradise for many and thus it is known to draw crowds. Another reason for Cancun’s popularity is the addition of the Cisco Live Conference right in the center of this resort town. This event allows Cisco customers, executives,…

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco Live has become one of the main IT conferences in the Latin America region as it gathers customers, experts and partners from different business segments and levels. At Cisco Live, attendees will have access to premier education and…

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…

Blog written by Stefan Vallin, Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems Consider the three key steps related to provisioning and maintaining a customer network service. First, configuration of network devices according to the service intent, followed by activation tests. Finally, ongoing service level assu…

I first saw this demo’d at Cisco Live Milan and although it was interesting, I don’t think I fully appreciated the problem being solved. The base technology enabling this became our first show in the SP series (NSO enabled by Tail-f).  It was then that I began to really appreciate how some of the mo…