Service Provider
5G Networking: Good Things Come in Threes
Service providers know that if they want to support the agile services that their customers are increasingly demanding, they need a new approach to networking. One that simplifies and streamlines the way their systems operate. That’s why they’re investing in developing their networks. But it’s not e…
Welcome Vijoy Pandey as CTO, Cisco Service Provider Business
Please join me in welcoming Vijoy Pandey as our new Service Provider CTO. Vijoy comes to us from Google where he headed engineering for their Data Center, Cloud and WAN networks, developing software systems for intent-driven automation, diagnostic telemetry, data analytics and application-level a…
Network Services: Bringing it all Together
A unified platform for enabling network services will be crucial to supporting the internet of things By 2021 there will be more than 3.3 billion mobile connected internet of things (IoT) devices. This is going to have a big impact on the way we live: connected cars will mean safer and more efficien…
New Opportunities Through Seamless Connectivity
Seamless cross-access convergence enables service providers to run their networks more efficiently, offering customers a better quality of experience and greater reliability. Growing customer demands for flexible services, alongside developing trends such as the internet of things, network as a serv…
Cisco NCS 5500 Sees Strong Customer Momentum
It has been two years since we started shipping our cloud-scale networking products. The Cisco NCS 5500 Series was specifically designed to be a scalable, low-power consumption, and cost-optimized 100G routing platform, with a path to 400G. The NCS 5500 product family is built to meet the massive b…
Preventative Care for Telecom Service Provider Networks
Health is about more than just taking medicine when we get ill. To stay healthy, we need to think long-term. It’s about understanding the different components of a healthy lifestyle, as well as what the potential dangers are and how to prevent them. And we need to continuously monitor our health, so…
Disaggregation! Disrupting the Service Provider Market
Market disruption and the explosion of bandwidth consumption are challenging SPs to scale up and increase agility whilst reducing costs. Challenged by major business disruption from web players and over-the-top providers, traditional SPs are looking at the strategies deployed by these competitors. O…
Cisco at ANGA 2018 – That’s a Wrap!
This year, I once again had the opportunity to join colleagues, customers and competitors from around the globe at ANGA COM in Cologne, Germany. This is one of my favorite trade show events, because it is brimming with innovation and thought-provoking discussions specifically focused on the future o…
A Network That Thinks for Itself
Networking today is a world of big opportunities – and big challenges. Telecoms, mobile, cloud and cable service providers are all facing increasing demands on their systems. Old approaches are no longer going to be enough. If they want to succeed in future, service providers are going to have to re…