telco

February 25, 2020

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Accelerate Deployment of a World Class 4G/5G Infrastructure – Faster, at Lower Cost

Co-authored by David Roberts and Bhavik Adhvaryu. The race to 5G is on! Market and Markets recently estimated that the market for 5G service provider-delivered services will grow to $123B by 2025, compounding at 18% annually. Both 4G and 5G technologies rely heavily on new cloud-based infrastructure…

September 26, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Mobile Xhaul Over DOCSIS Delivers Faster Time to Market at a Lower Cost Than Building a New Fiber Plant

Every time a new smartphone comes on the market, I ask myself, should I buy it or not?  It has cool new features, but my current model does everything I need.  Do I really want to spend more money and replace my existing hardware? But, I really like the cool new features. It’s a dilemma. What if the…

Small Business Buyers Over-Index on Digital Journeys

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…

5G Will Give Mobile Carriers a Pass into the B2B World

The advent of 5G networks is often referred to in bald terms as not much more than a speed upgrade. Nothing could be further from the truth: 5G changes pretty well everything in the way people (and businesses in particular) will use cellular networks. 5G New Radio support incredibly fast data rates,…

How 5G Will Make the Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) Model a Reality

Cellular networks have become an important connectivity asset for businesses, allowing them to support mobile workers and devices that sit outside the enterprise. Despite the importance of connectivity, mobile networks have been limited in their ability to provide unique experiences for different ty…

December 12, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Information Just for Telcos: Open For Business

Today, we’re launching a new page on Cisco.com that caters specifically to telco providers with solutions and content just for you. In this space, you’ll find our latest service offerings and information about industry trends. Come explore our case studies and use cases and find out how you can simp…

November 12, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Managing Service Provider Megatrends

The pace of change is accelerating, with multiple trends converging to stress service providers’ network and IT infrastructure as we move towards 2019. The average service provider infrastructure must carry a heavier workload in the next few years. Globally, each customer is expected to be carrying…

February 25, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Radical Transformation of Network Operations – Transformation Through Automation

It is a disruptive time for communications service providers, and more is coming along the way. So why not disrupt it ourselves? Service providers must contend with rising costs due to applications’ explosive bandwidth consumption, commoditization and erosion of traditional business, new business mo…

February 25, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

WAN Automation–Not Just Another New Release, but a Game Changer

Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) is enabling real-time network planning. WAE 7.0 is a game-changer release, and we are thrilled to announce its general availability. You’re likely familiar with WAE Design application, which has been the market leader in network modeling and capacity planning for ye…