Service Provider

A couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas, I felt like a member of a film crew watching my movie win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Verizon, the Cisco partner I’ve worked with for years, was named 2018 Global Service Provider of the Year. They then won a second honor: Enterprise Partner of the Year fo…

More great news for Cisco from a report completed by Analysys Mason – Cisco maintained its #1 market share position for Network Control and Orchestration solutions in 2017, cementing its place as the industry leader for service provider network automation and orchestration solutions. With 19%…

Vodafone-Netherlands (Ziggo) announced that they are taking their RAN automation to the next level and are building the required capabilities toward automation in the 5G Era with the commercial implementation of Cisco SONFlex. How Vodafone-Netherlands Ziggo uses SONFlex Vodafone-Netherlands has leve…

The rollout of 5G brings with it more possibilities: new services, more speed, more opportunities to scale, and accelerating growth. However, it also brings more complexity overlaid to today’s already-complicated networks. With growth, the level of operations becomes increasingly difficult with new…

The countdown has begun to Cisco Live 2019, with only a few weeks left until the EMEAR edition of this unmissable event kicks off in Barcelona on 28th January 2019. If you haven’t gotten around to sending in your registration, you still have time to confirm your attendance and ensure you will benefi…

Cisco emerged as the one of the biggest winner at the Telecom Asia’s 11th Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards, winning three categories – Cloud Innovation of the Year, for Cisco Managed Services Accelerator; Data Center Innovation of the Year, for Cisco Network Assurance Engine; and NFV Innovati…

In my last blog, I told you we would have lots of exciting announcements at Connections 2018. Well, I’m happy to share some of the highlights of today’s exciting news with you. Strong execution The past year has been very strong. We remained focused on execution and business results even as we work…

The pace of change is accelerating, with multiple trends converging to stress service providers’ network and IT infrastructure as we move towards 2019. The average service provider infrastructure must carry a heavier workload in the next few years. Globally, each customer is expected to be carrying…

Telecom service providers have made great strides to raise enterprise awareness of hosted IP telephony and Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solutions. Look no further than the market’s projected 21% compound annual growth rate in installed users from 2017-2024. But with greater customer a…