Service Provider

Strategize, Digitize, Analyze The latest Cisco VNI Complete Forecast update forecasts that for the first time in its 12-year history, there will be more M2M connections than end-user devices such as smartphones, laptops, TV sets, etc. By 2021, there will be 13.7 billion machine-to-machine (M2M) conn…

“Live” events are the holy-grail in media and entertainment. Whether it’s live sports, live news, or other live programming, “Live” is the most valuable, most difficult and most impactful type of production that can be done regardless of genre. Our own version of “Live”, Cisco Live US, is about to t…

What happens in Vegas won’t stay in Vegas! The excitement is building around top transformation topics: cloud, security, optimization, analytics, and more. Be sure you’re in the know with industry-leading solutions demos and informative sessions from the Advanced Services experts at Cisco Live from…

Service Providers and Enterprises are constantly striving to keep pace with user demand and expectations. The drive to transform networks in a timely manner while maintaining service quality and constraining incremental costs is an ongoing challenge. With 77,000 Service professionals around the worl…

We all know, as a Service Providers you have to operate much faster. You have to adopt much faster and to respond much faster to consumers like us. The good news is, we see many examples of how this can be done. Network operations is picking up speed fast. And as technology matures the momentum is p…

Enable rapid delivery of Cisco Intelligent WAN service using self-service portal and zero-touch, fully-automated provisioning Written by Dave Roberts, Director of Virtual Managed Services (VMS) at Cisco Cisco recently announced that Verizon is now using Cisco’s Virtual Managed Services (VMS) as the…

5G in the 3.5 GHz Band is Here We have been talking about 5G for what seems forever, but it has only been a few years and happy to say we are finally moving forward. We have been procrastinating about 5G and our next generation networks because of our dream of its potential to be a greater step forw…

A while back, I blogged on a survey that market research firm Ovum ran to help us with market research in NFV and SDN professional services.  While it wasn’t our principal objective in this survey to measure competitive position, we did receive some very interesting competitive perceptions fro…

Picture this, by 2021, there will be 4.6 billion global Internet users, 27.1 billion networked devices and connections, and 82 percent of all IP traffic will be video, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index. What’s even more amazing is that more members of the global population (7.8 billion ac…