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The Year of VoWi-Fi
There is a new role of voice in today’s communications. While we increasingly use text messages, instant messages, video, chat, and other technologies to communicate, voice continues to be a strong application that we use to reach out to each other. The methods of connecting voice calls have evolved…
How changing customer expectations are driving enterprise transitions
New technologies drive new capabilities, new information, and new ways of doing business. Forward-looking companies will demand more from the services and applications they use. This is the digital transformation. This will affect every industry and will impact every human being. “We stand on the br…
Catch the next wave of mobile monetization
Guest Blog Submitted by Jeff Meek, Manager, Product Marketing, SP Almost $1 trillion will be divided among mobile operators in the next few years. Are you fully prepared to take your share? Growing numbers of mobile users and a fast-changing competitive environment: that’s the opportunity, and the c…
Paving a Path to Success for Service Provider at Cisco Live Berlin 2016
We are faced with challenges and driven by opportunities. Our job at Cisco Live Berlin was to show and demonstrate how we: Enable providers to generate new revenue: New service offerings with rich, personalized experiences optimized to each screen and environment with data and insights from all sou…
Seeking real answers from MWC16
The annual gathering that is Mobile World Congress (MWC) is upon us again. As always there will be the usual hype around 3 letter acronyms like NFV, SDN, SON, IoT and of course 5G (ok not a TLA). As I fine tune the Cisco Mobility strategy for my APAC region, I see these as just enablers, to get Serv…
Shape Shifting Meets Accessorizing – the Latest Mobile Devices & Connections Trends
To say that global device and connections are growing is a true understatement. And this growth is rapidly shifting. By 2020, there will be 8.5 billion handheld or personal mobile-ready devices and 3.1 billion machine-to-machine (M2M) connections supported by mobile networks. From smartphones and ta…
Cisco Service Provider is Bringing Cloud Scale Networking to Cisco Live Berlin
Cisco Live Berlin 2016 is almost here and we would like to highlight a few key points that this event can bring your way. As you know networks are an essential part of business, education, government, and home communications. Every company in every vertical industry is facing unprecedented competiti…
The History and Future of Internet Traffic
I remember when 1 Mbps was big bandwidth. And 45 Mbps was unbelievably, outlandishly huge bandwidth. One spring day in 1995, at the headquarters of a large technology company outside of Dallas, there was excited chatter at the proverbial water cooler about the T3 access line that was being installed…
2015 Cisco VNI Complete Forecast Update: Key Trends Include Mobility, M2M and Multimedia Content
Today, Cisco released the 10th annual VNI Global IP Traffic and Service Adoption Forecasts for 2014 – 2019 (see media release). The primary drivers of global IP traffic growth continue to show increases that will create a greater global demand for IP network resources. As a result of these fundamen…