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Cisco ONE Webcast Series: An Introduction to OpenFlow
Topics such as Software Defined Networking and programmable networks are of great interest to many network operators these days. With that in mind we’re pleased to kick off a new series of Webcasts to help our customer learn more about Cisco’s Open Network Environment strategy. Please join us on Feb…
Cisco Talks Next Generation Optical Transport at OFC 2013
Join Cisco executives and technology experts at one of the premier optical networking conferences from March 17-21 in Anaheim, California. We welcome you all to be part of the dialog around Next Generation Transport technology! Optical networks are the foundation of communications today – and trend…
Delivering High Value Cloud Services in a World of Many Clouds
Businesses and Governments are using multiple clouds in different ways. They are moving core functions in to a controlled private or managed cloud. But they are still using public clouds for new services, content and demand spikes. Some large enterprises are becoming specialized cloud providers for…
Get Moving to V6 World Congress 2013
By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, Service Provider (SP) Marketing Routing and Switching The theme of this year’s V6 World Congress, happening in Paris, March 19-22, is “Going Mobile.” With the advent of the Internet of Everything and the proliferation of mobile devices well underway, there will b…
Taking Carrier Ethernet To Another Level: Cisco CE 2.0 Certification Pioneer
By Biren Mehta, Senior Marketing Manager, SP Marketing in Routing and Switching, Cisco Have you ever tried to order a pizza that 20 different people would enjoy? Just imagine getting twenty companies to agree upon a vigorous test plan that included over 600 test cases! (No easy cop-out by just gett…
Multiscreen Video Delivery: Tangled Solutions, Smoothed by the Cloud
By Bill Gerhardt, Director, IBSG Service Provider Online video is growing at a rapid — if not explosive — pace, with innovation and disruption spreading across all areas of the value chain. Some of the greatest innovation is currently occurring around multiscreen delivery and related services. To be…
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Intucell
Today, I am pleased to announce Cisco’s intent to acquire Intucell, a privately held company headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel for $475 million in cash and employee retention incentives. Intucell provides software platforms for Self-Optimized Network (SON) that support mobile carrier networks worldw…
Service Providers Are Just Getting Started with Big Data
By Kate Griffin, Principal Consultant, IBSG Service Provider Big Data has become top of mind among CxOs,but service providers (SPs) and most businesses today are just beginning to explore data analytics. “Big Data” generally refers to the growing scope of data analytics in terms of the variety, velo…
Join Cisco at Mobile World Congress 2013
Last week, CES kicked off an exciting 2013 for the industry and Cisco. With just a select few of our innovations modeled in our video and SP/ mobile demos our customers, partners and press expressed great interest in our approach to helping carriers monetize these connected experiences. During the…