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Uniserver Makes Cloud Infrastructure Look Easy
Uniserver, a leading cloud and IT services provider in the Netherlands, has a single, clear mission: to make IT simple. Internally, however, the effort involved in provisioning cloud infrastructure and services for customers was anything but. Today, Uniserver is using Cisco virtualization and networ…
Fast Tracking Network Automation
Itential Pronghorn Platform Extends Cisco Network Services Orchestrator’s Automation Service providers seeking to reduce costs and improve revenue know that increasing network automation and orchestration brings significant benefits. Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to…
Cisco at ANGA 2016
By Yves Padrines, VP, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco Broadband meets content meets transformation through innovation at this year’s ANGA COM gathering, scheduled to run three days from June 7-9 in Cologne, Germany. ANGA COM is one of my favorites in the trade show cycle, because it’s such a fo…
Light Reading OSS in the Era of SDN and NFV panel discussion on Service Orchestration
On November 5th Cisco participated at Light Reading’s OSS in the Era of SDN and NFV: Evolution vs. Revolution. Heavy Reading Senior Analyst, Caroline Chappell, organized this one-day event. In my mind, Caroline is our industry’s analyst’s analyst. She is always willing to dig down into the hard tech…
Innovation in Action: Exciting Catalyst Demonstrations at TM Forum Live in Nice
Last month, I encouraged you to come visit our booth at TMFLive! in Nice to see how Cisco’s unified service management solution helps Service Providers transform their networks into centers of excellence for building customer trust and loyalty by enhancing the customer experience. Now I am proud to…
Open Standards, Open Source, Open Loop
As the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) meets in Hawaii (IETF 91), the unavoidable question for both participants and observers is whether a Standards Development Organization (SDO) like the IETF is relevant in a rapidly expanding environment of Open Source Software (OSS) projects. For those n…
Virtualization, SDN, and Radically Simplified Operations
Today many look to SDN as the next big revolution in Networking. But why is there such hype? What radical change in the economics of networking will shift the industry? The answer is Virtualization. Virtualization’s growth is still in its infancy, and many aspects remain unexplored. Still there…