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Vodafone-Netherlands (Ziggo) announced that they are taking their RAN automation to the next level and are building the required capabilities toward automation in the 5G Era with the commercial implementation of Cisco SONFlex. How Vodafone-Netherlands Ziggo uses SONFlex Vodafone-Netherlands has leve…

Cisco recently put up an impressive showing at Telecom Asia’s 10th Annual Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards, to clinch 2 awards despite strong competition. The annual awards ceremony held on November 16 in Singapore, recognizes the advancements and contributions by leading telecom and tech org…

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs Vodafone engineers are constantly trying to innovate within their network to improve their customers’ experiences. To that end Vodafone Ireland has teamed with Cisco to create the world’s first trial using machine learning algori…

Vodafone India’s motto is “to be the most loved service provider in India” and that’s why over 200 million Indians have chosen to stay connected with them. Vodafone India is a 100% subsidiary of Vodafone Group. It commenced operations in 1994 when its predecessor Hutchison Telecom acquired the cellu…

Self-Optimizing Networks (SON) is not a new term and it has been thrown around for some time within the industry. Distributed SON (D-SON) is now active in many service providers’ radio networks having first been standardized in 3GPP release 8 (2008). Distributed SON, however, runs at the very edge o…

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…

When it comes to the mobile internet at Cisco, there has been a great deal of coverage lately around the need for and advances in small cells to offer spectrum in places hard to get to from a cell tower, on ways to optimize the macrocell radios with SON capabilities, and even some ground breaking ad…

In June, I described how Cisco was closing the small cell loop with the rapid integration of both the Ubiquisys and Intucell teams into the Cisco family. Today I’m pleased to make three announcements that demonstrate the concrete results of all these bright minds coming together: Cisco has added LT…

A year ago we introduced the Cisco Quantum Software suite based on an architectural construct of an automated, closed loop – linking network, analytics and policy – to help Mobile Operators better optimize and monetize their network investments.  We announced the network abstraction, ana…