Service Provider

Low Power Wide Area: LoRa – Emerging IoT Technology Accelerating Service Provider and Smart City Services

The Internet of Things (IoT) is accelerating the Digital World. All Connected things however, don’t have the same characteristics in terms of connectivity, bandwidth capacity and deployment. Until recently, the range of wide area connectivity technologies for M2M and IoT applications were largely li…

IoT Takes Center Stage at Mobile World Congress 2016

At Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona last week, we caught up with Ruba Borno, Cisco’s Vice President of Growth Initiatives and Chief of Staff to CEO, Chuck Robbins.…

February 29, 2016

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The Cisco cBR-8 Evolved CCAP and Remote PHY (RPHY)

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing CCAP Architecture: Remote PHY (RPHY) In the distributed CCAP architecture (DCA), the remote PHY (RPHY) component is what keeps DOCSIS relevant in the emerging world of digital fiber. It is of particular significance when a commercial digit…

February 29, 2016

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Cisco Lights Up Paris with Transformational Innovations

Cisco is proud to be a triple diamond sponsor of MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2016, which runs from March 8-11 at the Marriott Paris Rive Gauche Hotel and Conference Center in Paris, France. (For the uninitiated, that’s quite a jumble of acronyms — spelled out, it stands for “Multi-Protocol Lab…

February 24, 2016

SECURITY

Cisco Drives Service Provider Cloud and NFV Growth with EANTC Validated Security Solutions

Massive digital transformation is creating significant new opportunities for service providers. The number of Internet connected devices will grow from 15 billion today to 500 billion by 2030. The rise of cloud computing is a game-changer in service provider architecture and service delivery resulti…

February 22, 2016

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Cisco’s Key to Telecom Success: “Transformation Through Innovation”

The origins of the telecommunications service provider industry evoke thoughts of stable, even staid, providers of commodity communication services. Not that long ago, it was not very easy to distinguish service provider A from B, C and D. My how times have changed. At this week’s Mobile World Congr…

February 22, 2016

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Cisco VoWi-Fi Solution for Today’s Voice Demands

The first time I experienced Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi), I was on the receiving end of the call.  One of my colleagues called us with an OTT voice app using the airplane Wi-Fi. Not surprisingly, the sound quality was terrible, but we were able to communicate our message to him after repeating it a f…

February 22, 2016

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Building a Platform for Cloud Profitability

Demand for cloud services is exploding. The Cisco Global Cloud Index now forecasts that cloud traffic will grow by more than 30 percent in every region in the world over the next five years. In all, global cloud traffic will quadruple by 2019. It’s a huge business opportunity for cloud service provi…

February 21, 2016

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Transforming into a Mobile Cloud Services Provider

Mobile network operators face interesting challenges today. Their customers have fully embraced the digital world, and that digital world keeps expanding. Most individuals have multiple devices, and more “things” are getting connected each day. However, for the most part, revenues for the Mobile ope…