Service Provider

The Internet is global in spirit. But the traffic associated with it is increasingly local in nature, as we found in our recent VNI study. Consider a typical Internet user in North America. Today, over a third (35%) of the content accessed by this user is sent from a point within the same metropolit…

Three Internet Trends that Warrant Global Service Provider Attention (and Action) Today, consumers and business users depend on global IP networks more than ever. While it can be easy to take connectivity for granted when networks are working well, it can be a minor inconvenience or a major hardship…

In our previous blog post—on the scope of illegal streaming—we analyzed one of the forums that hosts illegal streaming server offers and concluded that it reaches at least 285,000 viewers. That’s an impressive figure. But what does it mean in financial terms? Or to be more specific, how much are pir…

We showcased our innovation at CommunicAsia in Singapore a week ago, highlighting the changing digital landscape and sharing insights on how companies should be ready for the future. Our senior executives were on hand to address topics and trends impacting organizations across the region, from strat…

Cisco receives Judges Choice Award for open-nFAPI and 10 year individual contributor award to Cisco’s Distinguished Engineer Mark Grayson The Small Cells World Summit is an annual event that brings together so many players in the small cell sector where they exchange experiences and show off the lat…

Media companies can use a cloud-based video infrastructure to support flexible and innovative ways of providing content. The way we watch TV and video is changing rapidly. People are consuming more content online, on a growing number of different devices inside and outside the home. And this is happ…

Sometimes you get the opportunity to walk away from the Cisco booth to see – and feel – what’s energizing the industry. From NAB 2017, here are a few of my walkaway takeaways: 1. NAB isn’t just for “traditional broadcasters” anymore. This year, the transition of IP deeper into the video food chain c…

Voiceworks delivers telephony solutions from the cloud Voiceworks BV, an Almere based company in The Netherlands, is one of the largest and fastest growing VoIP & web technology specialists. They are achieving great success in the Dutch and German telecom world with its corporate Unified Communi…

Cisco to Demonstrate Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 (“FDX”) By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access, Cisco It occurred to me recently that it was in 1997 that the first DOCSIS-based cable modems first entered the market in a meaningful way. Five years ago, in 2012, we celebrated the 15-year birthda…