SDN

OK, if you’re not thinking that I have lost my mind you are perhaps thinking, “How can my customers guide me with SDN and NFV?”.  If you look at it from the technology viewpoint, you are correct!  Your customers don’t specifically care about SDN and NFV nor any other technological mumbo jumbo and mo…

Written by Ola Mabadeje, Marketing Manager “Recalculating”… “Recalculating”… was all I heard when I eventually turned on the GPS navigator with the latest navigation software. I had been stuck in traffic and then decided to take some backroads to my destination. I had initially tried to…

Service Providers aim to deliver network services faster with assured customer quality.  But, as networks are becoming increasingly software-defined and programmable, the rate at which they change is also rising, driven by network-on-demand offerings and self-service portals. In this dynamic environ…

Google XTC and you find out it was an English rock band formed in 1972 and active till 2006 … It probably does not ring a bell to most of you – at least for me, I can’t recall any of their songs. XTC had another connotation in the 1980’s, but that’s not the point here either. So, what does XTC mean…

If you are a fan of Greek mythology, then you know that Cerberus was the three-headed dog that guarded the gates of Hades.  This monster kept the dead from escaping.  When you are on a journey to NFV transformation, sometimes you may feel you cannot escape from your own personal Hades.  As my collea…

It is generally accepted that revenues for mobile service providers are trending flat to down. A recent ARPU report from Informa provides this picture in detail by country. Some mobile service providers have acquired content services as a way to boost this trend, but they admit that this too will ev…

For the third year in a row, Cisco participated in the VXLAN BGP EVPN interoperability testing at the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). The interoperability showcase and test results are featured in the EANTC white paper as a part of the MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress. This year, a…

Digitization is changing the world. All kinds of businesses, organizations and countries are going digital to innovate more quickly, compete more effectively and serve customers better. But digitization is also placing unprecedented demands on the network. Traditional hardware-centric, manually conf…

Service providers are transforming their business using NFV based services and SDN enabled networks. But the pace of transformation has been slow. To find out why, Cisco recently conducted a study to understand the progress and challenges that SPs are facing as they go through SDN and NFV transforma…