virtualization

December 2, 2019

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What Are S-Parameters and Other Hot Cable Network Topics

SCTE•ISBE’s Cable-Tec Expo – the biggest cable show of the year – is over and now the hard work of putting all that new knowledge and innovation to work begins. The hot topic most interesting to me were advancements made to ready the network for DAA deployments. From overcoming challenges, to operat…

October 22, 2019

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Open vRAN at MWC Los Angeles 2019

It seems that you can’t write about mobile without talking about 5G, and for good reason – what a year it has been! Launches around the globe have accelerated at a pace that is even faster than prior generations. While some deployments are larger scale, like we see in South Korea, many of thes…

Cable-Tec Expo and the Keys to Capturing Cable Opportunities

Like most cable fans, I spent last week down in NOLA at the cable “Superbowl,” cable’s largest show of the year – Cable-Tec Expo. This year’s show theme was, “Raising the Bar on Technology Innovation,” which was so fitting because it echos the scale of solutions and technologies that Cisco is drivin…

Are you attending Cisco LIVE US 2019?

Well if so a great area for Service Providers and Engineers to meet our industry experts is the DevNet Zone …  Cisco LIVE DevNet Zone is a can’t miss opportunity for your career.   WHAT IS CISCO LIVE? Cisco Live is Cisco’s world-renowned annual customer and partner conference that is designed t…

Cisco Live US — What, Where & Why Web Leaders Will Be There

Virtualization has come to dominate computing and communications. But there’s still nothing quite like meeting with your professional peers in person. Exchanging experiences. Learning. And having fun. That, in a nutshell, is what Cisco Live US is all about. If you’ve never attended Cisco…

February 21, 2019

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The Open vRAN Wave is Building

The Open vRAN movement started with some smaller waves and the anticipation of a larger wave to form. It was driven by a belief that the fundamental way that mobile networks have been built for decades needed to evolve and improve. Legacy architectures, that were useful in the past, have outlived th…

January 25, 2019

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Awards, Certifications & Record Collaboration Revenues Highlight Winning Year for Cisco-CenturyLink Partnership

Winning teams have a few things in common: they bring together diverse skills, their individual players collaborate to get the job done, and they are driven to succeed. All of those elements aligned in 2018 for the Cisco-CenturyLink partnership. Americas Service Provider Collaboration Partner of the…

December 4, 2018

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Tackling Telecom’s Toughest Problems at the 2020 Vision Event

All eyes are on Lisbon, Portugal starting today, and not just because Chinese President Xi Jinping is visiting.  This week’s LightReading 2020 Vision Executive Summit brings together some of the industry’s greatest minds to tackle telecom’s toughest problems. This is certainly relevant as we look ah…

November 12, 2018

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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…