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As Daniel O’Connell and his colleagues at Gartner report in their Unified Communications Worldwide 2017 Forecast Overview, “small-business cloud telephony adoption will nearly double from 2016 through 2021, to reach 45% of small businesses.” He also explains that “small businesses will adopt cloud v…

The Cisco NCS 1004 has been in numerous trials since December of 2018, demonstrating multi-haul transmission. The NCS 1004 offers the flexibility to optimize for higher wavelength capacity or for fiber efficiency to support a wide range of customer applications. To date the NCS 1004 has successfully…

Last year at OFC, we launched the NCS 1004, and we demonstrated the NCS 1004 live in our booth working error-free up to 500G. We have come a long way since then. Customers have successfully run 600G on live networks. The NCS 1004 has achieved 10,000 km+ subsea reach with state-of-the-art performance…

Internet Traffic Trends and Network Pressure Internet traffic and connected devices continue to grow. In North America, between 2017 and 2022, average broadband speeds are projected to grow 2.1x times to 94Mbps. Average Wi-Fi speeds are projected to grow 2.2x to 84Mbps, and average mobile connection…

The rollout of 5G brings with it more possibilities: new services, more speed, more opportunities to scale, and accelerating growth. However, it also brings more complexity overlaid to today’s already-complicated networks. With growth, the level of operations becomes increasingly difficult with new…

Cisco continues to be on the leading edge, driving optical industry innovation for our customers. Today, I’m pleased to announce that we have achieved the ranking of Optical Network Market Leader in the 2018 IHS Markit Technology Vendor Scorecard. Notably, the report states that Cisco leads the fiel…

Verizon has achieved a significant technical milestone by implementing an innovative approach developed with Cisco toward increasing network efficiency on its next-generation transport network. This unique solution enables the continued growth of Ethernet services while improving the reliability of…

India’s first ever Mobile Congress kicked off in New Delhi last month with the goal of fostering digital inclusion across the country. A number of government ministers, officials, as well as top industry executives from around the world, spoke at the inaugural event. I am writing to you today to sha…

Intelligent, threat-centric security gives businesses the confidence to create new, flexible video services To understand the importance of video security, we only need to take a look at the amount of revenue lost through unauthorised access to content each year. A report commissioned by the Motion…