service providers

October 21, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The Compelling Benefits of SD-WAN

Today, businesses in almost every industry must manage more users, devices, mobility, and applications than ever before. Most business applications have moved to the cloud or been replaced by cloud-based SaaS applications. But in the business environment, it’s not just one cloud, it’s many. At the s…

October 17, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Slicing and Exposing: The 5G Network for Enterprise Use Cases

The time for 5G is clearly now as we see from the market launches from multiple Service Providers worldwide. Enhanced speed and low latency are being marketed first. While both consumers and businesses are expected to benefit from these, it is commonly agreed that the true potential of 5G is around…

February 22, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Digital Transformation is the Key to Monetization

By Rajesh Ghai, Research Director, Carrier Network Infrastructure, IDC    Faced with the triple challenges of commoditization, competition from new and old players, and the growing complexity of their infrastructure, communication service providers (SPs) globally recognize the need to digitall…

Celebrating Segment Routing’s 5th Birthday

Segment Routing is the term widely used in the industry to refer to Source Packet Routing In Networking (SPRING), as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Cisco has pioneered Segment Routing since 2012 and has led the standardization efforts with the support of a group of lead opera…

Cisco NCS 5500 Sees Strong Customer Momentum

It has been two years since we started shipping our cloud-scale networking products.  The Cisco NCS 5500 Series was specifically designed to be a scalable, low-power consumption, and cost-optimized 100G routing platform, with a path to 400G. The NCS 5500 product family is built to meet the massive b…

The Cable Story, Part 4: Automating the Network

This is the last of my “Cable Story” blog series, and what better way to finish it other than discussing automation? Why, because it stands to be the most important thing that service providers can do today to streamline their businesses. The principles in implementing automation are similar across…

The Cable Story, Part 3: How to Monetize the Pipe

In this third part of my ‘cable story’ blog, we’ll get into how to better monetize the pipe. It’s not a big secret that the video business is being commoditized. Actually, only a third of the serviceable cable homes and businesses in the U.S. are currently paying subscribers for cable video services…

The Cable Story, Part 1: Is that light at the end of the tunnel a train, or sunlight?

To a certain degree, the cable industry invented the service provider market as we know it today. With us for over 60 years now, it can be considered an ‘old’ industry, certainly in today’s dynamic world. Luckily for them, they have the opportunity to reinvent themselves, to change, to adapt, to rev…

Cisco, Verizon Teaming to Offer Expanded Collaboration

In today’s world of digital disruption, the customer experience is king and end-users are becoming sovereign decision makers who select their own portfolios of collaboration and content sharing SaaS tools. This pattern is driving tremendous innovation in the market and exponential growth for dozens…