Service Provider
The New Digital Deal: How retailers are transforming online shopping experiences and transactions
I need to preface this blog with a full disclosure statement. I love shopping! And apparently I am not alone in my affinity for all things retail. Let’s face it, many people enjoy the thrill of acquiring a new “bright shiny thing” or the high of getting a deal on something you need. However, the inc…
Heterogeneity as a New Network Normal
Three Keys to Success: Preparing your mobile network for 5G. Learn more: Download our new 5G ebook While much of the focus in the press on 5G has been around the definition of a new radio interface and the architecture to support such, it is increasingly evident that if 5G is going to deliver on it…
Protect, Detect, Respond – this cybersecurity mindset is also for payTV providers
In the world of cybersecurity, many organizations have implemented some version of the ‘identify, protect, detect, respond, recover’ framework proposed by United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Underpinning this framework is an acknowledgement that cybersecurity is not…
Oh, How Far We’ve Come in Building Cloud-Scale Networking
It’s been a year since I wrote this blog detailing our software innovations aimed at helping Service Providers address the ever-increasing challenges imposed by digitization. IOS XR for cloud-scale networking has really taken flight since then and I am proud to share with you some highlights from th…
Cisco and Ansible Team up to Demonstrate How to Manage Cloud-Scale Networks
We’ve talked about how Cisco is helping network operators leverage the tools of the data center to better manage the network. To show a real world example of this a few weeks back Cisco and Ansible teamed up for SDx Demo Friday. We showed how to manage large-scale networks using Cisco IOS XR applica…
DAA for Cable Access, separating myths from reality
Tasked with answering the question of “Why is a Remote PHY Architecture is better than a Remote MAC/PHY architecture” it would be prudent to articulate first what advantages Remote PHY has to offer over other proprietary solutions and let the readers draw their own conclusion. Let’s first call out i…
Remote Phy, The wonderful thing about standards
By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco “The wonderful thing about “standards” is that there are so many to choose from! So how do we in the “Cable industry” define a Standard? In short, we’d take the approach that a Standard is a set of published specific…
5G is coming! Are your migration plans ready?
Download our new 5G ebook, Three Keys to Success Preparing Your Mobile Network for 5G 5G is coming, 5G is coming!!! That’s what our technology Paul Reveres are calling as they ride through our industry journals. And they are right, 5G is coming and it’s coming fast. Oh what to do, and what to do fir…
Designing CCAP for DOCSIS 3.1 and Beyond
Written By Daniel Etman, Director Product Marketing CABU We often get asked what we mean by claiming that the Cisco cBR8 is designed from the ground up for DOCSIS 3.1 and beyond. In fact, there is a lot of confusion out there with regard to different hardware architectures in use by the various CCAP…