Service Provider

In the market for cloud and digital services, speed kills. There’s just so much competition, so many organizations constantly pushing new solutions to meet changing customer needs. If you can’t get new digital products and features out the door quickly—if you can’t retool on the fly to capture new o…

Five Broadcasting Technology Transition Factors to Consider You may be asking yourself, what will the broadcasting industry look like a year from now or five years into the future? How do I successfully transition my broadcast technology to keep pace? Here are five important factors to consider when…

Small and medium business (SMB)* IT trends are consistent regardless of what you read or who you talk to.  IT budgets are growing, security is top of mind, and the shift to cloud in full force. For Cisco, these trends couldn’t align better. We have the buyer interest^, product leadership, and a worl…

As an understandable precaution, Mobile World Congress (MWC) was canceled due to the global coronavirus outbreak. MWC is one of the most exciting events of the year for us. I was really looking forward to the energy and meeting many customers face-to-face. Despite the event being canceled, we procee…

Co-authored by David Roberts and Bhavik Adhvaryu. The race to 5G is on! Market and Markets recently estimated that the market for 5G service provider-delivered services will grow to $123B by 2025, compounding at 18% annually. Both 4G and 5G technologies rely heavily on new cloud-based infrastructure…

Co-Authored by Romie Castelli, Director, Americas Service Provider, Cisco Capital Everyone was talking about the cloud ten years ago – except that, back then, not many people knew what it was, and even fewer knew how the business model would work. Fast forward and we realize that the applications de…

Here’s what we need: build a data center that can support billions of unique server sessions per day. Also, let’s have it bring up personalized images, video, and other rich media content for hundreds of millions of people, simultaneously, the second they hit our servers. Oh, and don’t forget to mak…

The latest iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro remind us that the iPhone is a great business partner. The blend of advanced capabilities in iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, and features built through the strategic partnership between Apple and Cisco, make the new models excellent devices both for users, and for…

To what extent do CDN caches deep inside the ISP or the operator network also improve QoE? Does it suffice to simply deploy the CDN appliance just past the peering point? This blog post describes a project, sponsored by Cisco’s  Research and Open Innovation initiative, and undertaken by Prof. Sanjay…