Service Provider
How Will Mobile Operators Make Money in the Future?
The mobile market continues to evolve at a blindingly fast pace. It seems as though new faster, sleeker, and more powerful mobile devices are launched every day. And new categories of mobile devices are created almost overnight. The number of applications available to run on these revolutionary new…
It’s Time to Play the SCTE IP Challenge!
This is a partner perspective guest blog contributed by Steve Harris, Senior Director, Advanced Network Technologies. If the category is “SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® Highlights” and the answer is “The SCTE IP Challenge,” then the question is obvious: “What major Cable-Tec Expo event gets underway next we…
Telecom Italia Creates SDN Network Testbed with Five Universities
Telecom Italia is constantly on the lookout for innovative technologies that provide a competitive advantage. The goal is to be the first to offer new services to customers. The latest hot innovations around Software Defined Networking (SDN) caught Telecom Italia’s attention. SDN promises to simplif…
Why We’re Joining the Linaro Digital Home Group
Written By Ken Morse, CTO, Connected Devices, Cisco One of the unmistakable trends happening in consumer electronics is the steady and seemingly unstoppable rise of ARM-based chips as the norm in all kinds of gear, and particularly mobile devices such as tablets, and smart phones. It follows that AR…
Cisco Carrier-Grade Virtualization for Mobile Operators
Wow how time flies, three months ago there was snow and cold weather in Boston but at the same time it was quite hot at the 2014 MWC. Hot from all of the discussions on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Orchestration were on everyone’s minds, as both mobile operators and vendors try to answ…
ANGA COM 2014 Closes on a Positive Note: Key Highlights from the Show Floor
Another successful ANGA COM for Cisco. The event itself attracted 17,000 visitors and 1,700 participated in the Congress, listening to over 100 speakers – both areas attracting more people than last year – this is indeed a growing show! Cisco was well represented in panels and speaking sessions thro…
Fibrenoire’s Jean-François Lévesque shares tips with Cisco on how to thrive in the fast-paced service provider world
Since its founding in 2007, Fibrenoire, based in Montreal, Quebec, has grown from a startup to one of Canada’s largest metro-fiber-to-the-business service providers. As further testament to their success Fibernoire was the first Canadian service provider to earn MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Services cer…
The Evolution of the Mobile Service Provider – A Five-Stage Strategy
Written By Dan Kurschner, Senior Manager SP Mobility Marketing Over the past decades, Mobility has advanced from a mere curiosity (remember those “brick” phones?), to a convenience and today being an indispensable part of our everyday lives. Businesses are leveraging the internet and the cloud to d…
Autonomic Networking: Where Do We Go From Here?
It’s great to be back at another Cisco Live event, this time in the great city of San Francisco. This is the last day of the event, and if you have some time, please do stop over at the World of Solutions, where you can see Autonomic Networking in action. We have set up a live demo of the Au…