Service Provider

February 8, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Five things that are bigger than the Internet: Findings from this year’s Global Cloud Index

The scale of the Internet is awe-inspiring. By 2021, there will be 4.6 billion people and 27 billion devices connected to the Internet, and Internet traffic will reach 2.8 trillion Gigabytes (or 2.8 Zettabytes) per year. (These numbers are published in our annual Visual Networking Index.) Even with…

January 26, 2018

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Verizon Achieves Technical Milestone with Cisco Solution

Verizon has achieved a significant technical milestone by implementing an innovative approach developed with Cisco toward increasing network efficiency on its next-generation transport network. This unique solution enables the continued growth of Ethernet services while improving the reliability of…

Infinite Broadband Unlocked @CES

This week, I’m at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and can’t imagine a more invigorating way to start the new year than being a part of the world’s largest showcase of breakthrough technologies. In the cable access space, we’re unleashing next generation technologies that open new op…

Cisco@CES: Cloud Architectures for Scaling Video: Three Use Cases From Our Customers

Written by Ramin Farassat More and more service providers are shifting toward cloud-delivered video, just as the video-heavy Consumer Electronics Show is once again at hand. CES is all about consumer experiences — mostly video, and increasingly driven from the cloud. I want to share three exam…

When Satellite Video Providers Met OTT

The pay TV landscape is changing. This is not news, obviously. But the pace of the change, how it’s shaping the industry and most importantly, understanding how TV operators are reacting to it are making things really interesting. Let’s level-set, first, to see if the change is indeed already here.…

December 4, 2017

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Bell Canada implements Cisco Segment Routing

Over the past few weeks, Bell Canada has successfully rolled out Segment Routing in its next-generation core network, marking a milestone as the first Canadian carrier to actively use this innovative technology for network automation and software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities. Internet traff…

October 26, 2017

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Securing the Video Streaming Business

It is that time of year again; leaves are turning, the air is crisp, and every week teams from the National Football League line up to participate in the ‘ultimate team sport’, American football.  As a lifelong fan, I watch every Patriots game and I am certainly not alone. It is that diehard devotio…

October 19, 2017

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Bringing the Benefits of Cloud Native to Network Function Virtualization

Written by Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer, Cable Access Business Unit Web-scale giants, like Amazon, Google and Facebook, design their infrastructure, applications and deployments to be cloud native because this is the ideal environment for supporting their core applications, including sear…

October 18, 2017

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Cisco Showing Industry Interoperability with Remote PHY at 2017 SCTE in Denver

Back in May this year at the ANGA.COM we announced the availability of our Infinite Broadband solution, introducing Remote PHY to the market as the leading Distributed Access Architecture (DAA). The Infinite Broadband solution now includes everything you need to make Remote PHY a reality: CCAP RPHY…