Service Provider

January 13, 2020

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Cisco Makes Waves in Subsea Market

If you’re anything like me, your internet connection is a connection to family, to friends, to work, to business partners, to entertainment – and everything in between. When people think of the internet these days, “the cloud” often comes to mind, for storage and apps and streaming games and videos,…

January 10, 2020

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Three Services from 5G: Massive Machine Type Communications

According to Gartner, 20.4 billion IoT devices will be in use worldwide by 2020, and more than 65 percent of enterprises will adopt IoT products. IoT devices are expected to generate more than half of the world’s data by 2025 according to IDC. Considering the current growth of the Internet and the a…

December 20, 2019

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Partnering for Innovation

You may have seen at the recent Cisco Partner Summit early November that KPN picked up two awards: EMEAR Innovation Partner of the Year and the Netherlands Public Sector Partner of the Year. As a leading supplier of telecommunications and IT solutions in the Netherlands, KPN is paving the way for in…

December 19, 2019

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If Cybersecurity Was a Christmas Dinner

A couple of years ago, my colleague Hazel released an inspiring blog post explaining an interesting analogy on Cisco’s approach to cybersecurity: if cybersecurity was a pizza. As I began to prepare for my festive feast, a similar analogy was cooking (ahem..,) as I thought about how many elements the…

December 16, 2019

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Service Providers set to take centre stage at Cisco Live! 2020 in Barcelona

Service Providers (SPs) represent some of the largest enterprises in today’s changing world. Influenced by the fluid macro-economic and geo-political climates in which they operate, they are at the forefront of network transformation in a fiercely competitive, global market. Meeting the expectations…

December 13, 2019

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Reinventing the Internet: Solving Communication Service Provider Bandwidth Issues with Better Network Design

Guest blog by Rajesh Ghai, Research Director, Carrier Network Infrastructure, IDC Every day, more applications migrate to the cloud. Corporate networks increasingly stream rich data such as video, and real-time services such as 5G and IoT drive more low-latency connections and bandwidth demands. Wit…

December 11, 2019

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The Internet for the Future Has Been Unveiled

Today, the world received the blueprint for the Internet for the Future from Cisco – the company who built and powered the Internet for the past 35 years.  Built on breakthrough building blocks in silicon, software, systems and optics from Cisco, the next Internet will be supercharged, limitless and…

December 11, 2019

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ONE Silicon, ONE Experience, MULTIPLE Roles

Wherever you are, you likely have devices containing a semiconductor chip around you – computers, phones, television sets, printers, cars, trains, airplanes, and more. It’s almost hard to believe that this tiny electronic component unleashed the same magnitude of change as the Industrial Revolution…

December 11, 2019

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Cisco Goes SONiC on New Networking Platforms

Cisco has collaborated closely with Microsoft to drive large scale networking. Today, at the launch of Cisco Silicon One and the Cisco 8000, we are happy to share progress we have made together on the fundamental building blocks of open networking. In in 2016, to address the requirements of r…