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Today, Cisco CTAO, announces an important milestone to deploy an open-source version of Cisco’s Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (hICN), which is a unique network architecture based on the Internet protocol that rethinks communications around information itself and not on the location of the da…

A couple of weeks ago in Las Vegas, I felt like a member of a film crew watching my movie win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Verizon, the Cisco partner I’ve worked with for years, was named 2018 Global Service Provider of the Year. They then won a second honor: Enterprise Partner of the Year fo…

Enable rapid delivery of Cisco Intelligent WAN service using self-service portal and zero-touch, fully-automated provisioning Written by Dave Roberts, Director of Virtual Managed Services (VMS) at Cisco Cisco recently announced that Verizon is now using Cisco’s Virtual Managed Services (VMS) as the…

Over the next five years, global IP networks will support up to 10 billion new devices and connections—near tripling IP traffic growth by 2020, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index forecast. The proliferation of connected devices, video, and over-the-top (OTT) traffic are pushing SONET/SDH t…

Written by Vy Kuchibhatla, Senior Manager, MBG Operations and Strategy At MWC 2017, two key themes received a bulk of the focus from a network equipment provider perspective: 5G and NFV/Automation (Verizon/Cisco, Telus/Cisco, NTT/Cisco, Reliance Jio/Cisco). This article focuses on the genesis of NFV…

Mobile is everything and everything is mobile. On Day 1 of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Chuck Robbins succinctly described the “mobility explosion,” as a driver for innovation and a means for anyone and everyone to take advantage of the incredible advances we are seeing in technology. This explosive…

At MWC, we are making a dozen innovation and customer momentum announcements including 5G Trials with Verizon.  Last week, Verizon announced it will deliver 5G service to pilot customers in 11 markets across the U.S. by mid-2017, and today we announced that we will be a key technology supplier for t…

You can think of collaboration tools—messaging, meetings, calling—as the central nervous system of the modern organization. But traditional collaboration platforms, with their disparate applications, interfaces, and delivery models, have often been complex and frustrating—both for end-users and the…

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…