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Written with Mara Fowler, Cisco Customer Stories Over the past several centuries, significant scientific discoveries have fueled the rise of modern medicine.  Researchers like Pasteur, Fleming, and Salk identified groundbreaking medical treatments that saved untold numbers of lives.  During this tim…

Interoperability standards have posed an elusive challenge for the NFV industry. Cisco recently participated in ETSI’s first Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Interoperability Plugtest, held in Madrid, Spain, between January 23 and February 3, 2017 with great success, further validating Cisco N…

You have enough on your plate – trying to operate your network while figuring out a plan on how to migrate all of your TDM circuits to IP, and your budget probably isn’t growing either. At next week’s OFC in Los Angeles, we’re excited to show you the latest innovations in our service lifecycle manag…

As more and more service providers and enterprises invest in Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the fast-evolving and maturing NFV technology poses special challenges for those who are looking to not only perform a proof-of-concept, but also operationalize their NFV initiative, and ultimately of…

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…

Co-authored with Nicolas Breton, Product Manager Marketing, Cisco In the era of Cloud-scale networking, network simplicity, agility and scale are essential.  Service Providers are currently expanding their Data Center footprint to offer on-demand virtualized network services. This is what the indust…

Based on Gartner, vendors will ship almost 8.5 billion connected “things” to users and companies in 2017 and that the total spending on these endpoints and services will reach almost $2 trillion. Amidst this digital transformation, your data center infrastructure is the backbone of your…

The excitement, the energy, the sore feet once again engulfed us in the beautiful city of Barcelona for arguably the greatest show on Earth – Mobile World Congress.  Well, for those of us in networking, anyway. The theme for Mobile World Congress 2017 is: The Next Element. Upon reading “The Next Ele…

According to Wikibon, only 10% of internal IT workloads represent true private cloud. The private cloud is simply a virtualized environment, lacking the characteristics that we associate with public cloud, such as user self-service, automated deployment and utility billing. This is because private c…