Service Provider

Later this month, I will be traveling to India to meet with customers and connect with our Cisco Service Provider engineering teams. I always look forward to my trips to India. Each time I return, I find myself in awe of the pace of technology adoption in India, in general, and in particular, the ra…

Cloud Scale Networking software innovations are the outcome of a partnership with some leading innovators to utilize data center ‘DevOps’ principles and techniques to offer new levels of agility, efficiency, and simplicity. Key benefits include: Large-scale automation for provisioning and network c…

It’s April, and that means it’s time to pack back out to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters convention, scheduled for the last week of the month. And because we’ve lots to talk about, and you probably have limited time, I’m motivated to keep this one tight. I’ll start with the mo…

I am pleased to share some exciting news! Cable industry leader George Kajos is joining our Cable Access Business Unit and my leadership team as Senior Director of Software Engineering. George comes to Cisco with over 20 years of experience leading state of the art Video, Conferencing, and Networkin…

Cybersecurity was a main topic at the recent IP Visions Conference and Expo in St. Louis, MO this week. Cisco hosted a pre-conference workshop on Monday and cybersecurity was referenced in all the topics; three out of the five session’s main discussion points focused around cybersecurity. CCI was ho…

There’s an undeniable rise in the number of people illegally streaming pay TV. In recent years, there have been many reports of police actions and criminal prosecutions of pirates and the many businesses that support them. The challenge when reading and compiling such reports is quantifying the over…

Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit In recent blogs, we focused on fiber deep architectures and changes in topology. The implication one might draw is that this “network of the future” is the one and only thing operators should pursue moving forward and that…

A little about me: I’m a Scorpio, a New Yorker, and am opening a new plant-based Mexican restaurant in China Town with my husband this month.  Oh, and in August I will have celebrated my 11th anniversary with Cisco. In the past decade, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most incred…

Ask The Right Questions Of Your Managed Services Provider The value of managed services is often reduced to discussions about cost-cutting and taking a mess off the customer’s hands.  However, the real value resides in ways that managed services help streamline operations, innovate with new technolo…