Service Provider

In just a few weeks, we’ll be at the 2017 CableLabs Summer Conference in Keystone, Colorado to demonstrate DOCSIS FDX. The agenda for this year’s conference has some fantastic keynote speakers and sessions featuring the latest technical developments in the industry. To find out more, visit the Cable…

I’ve been working in the Sports and Entertainment Industry for over 20 years, and by far, digital transformation has been one of the greatest technology disruptor across industries in the past five years, making it more critical for organizations to transform their business models to remain competit…

Segment Routing has crossed the chasm – “Early Adopters” have already embraced it, and now the “Early Majority” is adopting it. Interestingly, at the very same time the industry is surfing the Segment Routing MPLS wave, the next wave is already coming in and will even be more disruptive to the way y…

Written by Mehdi Nikkhah, Software Engineer, Cisco Innovation Labs Service providers are going through a massive network transformation. Increasing demands from new services, in respect to user experience as well as connecting millions of things every year or month as well as creating new value and…

Over 28,000 people from around the world flocked to Las Vegas last month to attend Cisco’s annual showcase of new technologies, Cisco Live.  For the second year in a row, Ericsson participated in the event as a Diamond Sponsor, with a large booth and multiple keynote presentations. For the fir…

Recently I had the good fortune to be invited to address a Light Reading BCE audience in Austin, where the theme was the future of big networks. There was plenty of discussion, as you might imagine, about software defined networks/SDNs, network function virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligen…

With the industry undergoing transformation, service providers (SPs) now have an opportunity to apply the latest innovation – from machine learning to artificial intelligence to advanced analytics — to the way they operate and define the network. Lessons from history has shown that to succeed in any…

Written By Christian Schmutzer, Principal Engineer at Cisco The idea behind Cisco’s Transport Network Modernization solution is simple: allow a single, packet-oriented network to support both connectionless and connection-oriented services concurrently. A number of technology innovations were requi…

The Communications Services Provider (CSP) industry is at a very exciting time as we transition towards a 5G world. 5G has the potential to be a greater step forward than any of the previous generations of mobile wireless generations. A major focus of 5G are use cases of business and IoT. Indeed, wh…