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By Jayant Changrani, Country Head and General Manager – India, NDS, now part of Cisco As we near the end of the calendar year, the last part of which as a newly acquired Cisco company, we’ve reached yet another milestone in India. At the end of 2011, NDS celebrated that its solutions were enabling d…

A common refrain in the wireless world is “everything, everywhere”, but up until now there’s been one place wireless communications has not reached: underground. When Virgin Media came to us with the opportunity to work together to design and build a Wi-Fi network that would bring mobile broadband t…

Innovation is often defined as novel technological invention. What is far less known about successful innovation efforts is that it takes a special breed of individual who possesses the rare combination of technical depth and sharp diplomatic skills. To be a successful innovator, one must be able to…

There has been major market traction this past year in the deployment of cloud services, but the discussion still too often focuses on cloud in the singular. Our experience has shown that companies are not typically adopting a single approach to cloud, but rather are embracing a rich set of approach…

Once the exclusive domain of senior executives, mobile devices are now indispensable to most employees for conducting both their business and personal lives. The insatiable demand for smartphones, tablets, and other connected devices is generating staggering amounts of mobile data. In parallel, the…

In this business, “monetization” is often a nice way to say “profits”.   And profits usually come at someone else’s expense. But what if I told you you could be profitable giving away your product?  Further, what if I told you you could be profitable, and your customer would also make money in the d…

By Uwe Lambrette, Director, IBSG Service Provider How exactly is the enterprise migration to the clouds progressing? In 2010, the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) sought answers in a wide-ranging survey. At the time, the path to cloud was just beginning for many enterprises. Today, wit…

Following the ITU hosted CTO meeting held in Dubai on November 18 2012, where I represented our CTO Padmasree Warrior, I had the pleasure to present at the ITU-T Global Standards Symposium [GSS] in Dubai on November 19 2012. This panel was of particular interest to us because Cisco observed a number…

By 2016, more than 10 billion connected devices will populate our planet. According to data from the Cisco Visual Networking Index, mobile connection speeds and data use are anticipated to rise with this influx of smartphones, tablets and laptop computers. Many mobile device users are constantly con…