Service Provider

Cisco Mobility IQ Ushers in New Era of Retail Engagement and Outreach

With Cisco’s cloud-hosted, analytics solution Mobility IQ, retailers and their partners can now gain invaluable insight into their customers’ “showrooming” habits, understanding more about why customers browse in-store – but buy online. This breakthrough solution is making it easier to capital…

Get the Big Picture with Cisco Mobility IQ

We’re here in Barcelona for the opening of Mobile World Congress 2015, and the energy is palpable. I have to say I’m pretty excited myself as Cisco unveils a new way of doing business with our service provider customers: Cisco Mobility IQ. Mobility IQ changes the conversation from what the network d…

February 27, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

The Story of Cisco Virtualized Managed Business Services: How Cisco Evolved its Engineering Teams To Revolutionize Servi …

I’ll be boarding a flight to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress tomorrow knowing that this year’s event will be like no other for Cisco’s service provider business. Over the past two years we’ve completely transformed our service provider engineering organization. We’ve overhauled our technology an…

February 26, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Making Software Defined Networks work for the Service Provider’s success

An invitation to see how Tomorrow starts here at MWC 2015 We all like to talk about creating new customized services for the end user at “web-speed”. But today there is no way to automate service creation, or to dynamically affect changes (augmentation) to existing services without touching the netw…

February 26, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

2015: A Great Time to be a Service Provider!

As we close on the first two months of 2015, I am amazed by the exciting developments that can directly benefit service providers. A few examples from my recent travels: CES in Las Vegas – The Internet of Everything moved from concept to reality as seen in new connected services, continued prolifer…

February 25, 2015

DATA CENTER

Our Ecosystem Begins Here @Ciscocloud

As Cisco prepares for Cisco Live Melbourne #clmel, I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight our @Ciscocloud Intercloud partnership with Telstra The following Q&A session between executives of our partnered companies identifies the unique challenges of our current business environment and t…

February 25, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Ready for Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015!

In just a couple of days, many of you will be taking planes, trains, and automobiles to sunny Barcelona. I see that the weather forecast is for 65ºF / 19ºC for the opening day of Mobile World Congress. I really appreciate how the MWC timeframe has gradually crept closer to Spring over these past few…

January 27, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco Cloud Security Architecture: Un-Cloaking Invisible Threats

In the more than ten years, I have worked in developing security solutions, I have witnessed the steady evolution of security threats and the incredible strides made to combat them. Recent high profile security breaches have shown that a breach in security can have serious consequences.. It can lead…

January 21, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Carrier Wi-Fi: Consider More Than Speed

By Vince Pandolfi, Consulting Systems Engineer, Service Provider The latest Wi-Fi physical layer standard 802.11ac, has been ratified and is enjoying widespread adpotion in the client device marketplace. The hype has been with us for a few years now proclaiming tremendous gains in throughput. The m…