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Cisco Private Cloud Transforms Your Business
Digital technology has become pervasive in our lives. As a result tech savvy employees and customers have new expectations for interacting with your business. The problem is how do you meet these new expectations while at the same time meet your objectives of cost reduction, delivering business in…
Simple Device Management, Network Provisioning and Network Assurance for Small Carriers & RLECs
Guest Blog by Alison O’Brien, Product & Solutions Marketing Manager Small Carriers and the NMS/EMS Small carriers and rural local exchange carriers (RLECs) often forgo Network Management Systems/Element Management Systems (NMS/EMS) platforms because they don’t have dedicated IT department…
Composable Infrastructure, Part 2: What are the Benefits?
We recently sat down with IDC analyst, Jed Scaramella, to talk about an interesting and accelerating trend in data center technology: composable infrastructure. With UCS M-Series servers, Cisco has taken an important step forward in this space. To help frame things up, we asked Jed for his take on t…
Leading the Evolution of the Mobile Packet Core
I was reading the latest ACG Research report on Mobile IP Infrastructure and reflecting how the importance of the IP Packet Core has evolved, and how the technology leaders in this area have also evolved. Back in the “3G era” the Packet Core sat alongside the Voice Core, and was considered an adjunc…
Capitalizing on Your Evolved Programmable Network through Faster and More Efficient Cloud Services Delivery
SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) technologies are expected to help Service Providers gain new efficiencies and previously unimagined speed and agility in cloud services delivery so they can seize new business opportunities and achieve continued growth. Spe…
Cisco UCS Director: Your Data Center Conductor
Customers frequently comment that IT simply isn’t keeping pace with their needs. Provisioning new data center resources can take weeks. To be fair, IT professionals are doing the best they can but manual processes and organizational silos can make the process equivalent to trying to play a symphon…
Partner with Cisco on Managed Services to Quickly Achieve New Revenue Streams
Virtualized Network Function (VNF), Virtualized Managed Services (VMS) and the transition to a software based infrastructure are poised to dramatically alter the way Service Providers build and maintain their networks . End users want value, innovative functionality, and reliability, and Service Pro…
Simpler IT Management Increases the Effectiveness of Advanced Technologies
Advanced technology assists your business on its journey to becoming more efficient and agile so it can keep serving the rising expectations of customers. But, how can you help these advanced technologies serve your business well? Technology headlines focus on the individual tools to help you suppo…
Network Service Orchestration enabled by Tail-f
This is the first in a new series of Service Provider focused topics. We had a lot of choices on where to start but this jumped out as my favorite. Tail-f brought us some incredibly successful work that dovetails nicely into our SP strategy. Tedious CLI and home-spun scripts continue to charact…