Service Provider

Attending IBC 2018? Cisco’s SP Video Team is Energized and Ready

Attending #IBC2018? If so, put Cisco Service Provider Video Software & Solutions on your list! Stop by Stand 1.A71. Why? This post is your print-it-out guide. We are energized and ready! Over the past few months, our product teams have been working hard to add new enhancements, features, partner…

Meeting enterprise demands with dual rate 10/25G Ethernet

Written by Craig Pasek, Product Manager Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco   Enterprise networks are now being stressed by video conferencing and other demanding video applications that push beyond the speed limits of traditional 10G infrastructure.  Whether it’s IEEE802.11ax WiFi Access Points,…

Vertical Consolidation: Several New Distribution ‘Tails’

#IBC2018 The Cisco SP Video Software & Solution team is prepping eighteen demos across five domains. These demo slots will fill-up fast! Ask your Cisco rep or any listed author to book your meeting.  This post shares a perspective on Next-gen Distribution and Control. Check out the Cisco D9800 N…

New MSA Formed to Tackle 400GE Over Multi-Mode Fiber

Written by Ray Nering, Product Manager, Transceiver Modules Group, Cisco   On July 9, 2018, the 400GE BiDi MSA Group announced its formation. The founding members consist of Alibaba, Broadcom, Cisco, Corning Incorporated, Foxconn Interconnect Technology, InnoLight Technology, Inphi Corporation…

Open vRAN Update: NETCONF/YANG Comes to 5G RAN!

One of the key principles of the Open vRAN ecosystem that Cisco and its ecosystem partners announced earlier this year, is to establish open, standard interfaces and management for vRAN. Recently the xRAN Forum has defined the use of IETF’s NETCONF/YANG standard for programmatically configuring and…

Cisco Named Optical Network Market Leader by IHS

Cisco continues to be on the leading edge, driving optical industry innovation for our customers. Today, I’m pleased to announce that we have achieved the ranking of Optical Network Market Leader in the 2018 IHS Markit Technology Vendor Scorecard. Notably, the report states that Cisco leads the fiel…

100G Adoption In Data Centers With QSFP BiDi Transceiver

Data center traffic is expected to quadruple in the next five years as IoT and big data applications take off. At the same time, we’ll see growth in distributed databases and applications, increasing virtualization and virtual machine density. And all this comes with more complex and unpredictable t…

DDoS Mitigation for Modern Peering

DDoS understandably makes for a lot of headlines and is the source of genuine concern on the modern Internet. For example, the recent memcached attacks were remarkable for the volume of traffic generated through amplification (1.7Tbps) and are the latest reminder that a well-designed network edge ne…

The Five Focus Areas for 5G Security Innovation and Thought Leadership

5G brings the promise of new revenue opportunities for service providers. Service providers will be able to offer new differentiated services and capabilities, connecting customers to multi-cloud services and applications with specific KPIs. To help service providers in the delivery of 5G, Cisco’s C…