cloud scale networking

Building Jio Scale

2 min read

The term web-scale has been with us just a few years. Mainly referring to managing a data center infrastructure with capabilities to scale in size, speed and agility, it has usually been associated with large cloud service firms such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix.   It has not been associated with communications service providers.   However, these […]

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017: Where The Rubber Meets The Road

4 min read

Industry experts, operators and vendors present real use cases and technology demos to demonstrate what works, and what does not, for real deployments in live networks.

November 30, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Oh, How Far We’ve Come in Building Cloud-Scale Networking

3 min read

It’s been a year since I wrote this blog detailing our software innovations aimed at helping Service Providers address the ever-increasing challenges imposed by digitization. IOS XR for cloud-scale networking has really taken flight since then and I am proud to share with you some highlights from the journey thus far. Our strategy is essentially […]

November 29, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco and Ansible Team up to Demonstrate How to Manage Cloud-Scale Networks

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Cisco and Ansible teamed up for SDx Demo Friday. We showed how to manage large-scale networks using Cisco IOS XR application hosting infrastructure and Ansible version 2.2.

Join Cisco at Next Generation Optical Network Conference (NGON) 2016

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By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cisco, and the international transport community, will converge on the Acropolis Convention Center starting this Tuesday in Nice, France – June 28, through July 1, for the 18th annual NGON conference. NGON is considered by many to be the primer DWDM/Optical conference in Europe.  Hot […]

March 16, 2016

DATA CENTER

Moving to Cloud? Intelligent Buffer Matters!

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Craig Huitema and Soni Jiandani blogged  about Cisco’s latest ASIC innovations for the Nexus 9K platforms and IDC did a

December 8, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The New Cisco Network Convergence System 1000 Series

2 min read

Guest Blog by Leonard Luna, Marketing Manager Cisco recently announced a new solution that will be instrumental in the network digitization transformation era: Software Innovations for Cloud Scale Networking. These enable service providers and web companies to deliver cloud applications with greater agility, automation and simplicity, while reducing the operational cost of the networks that […]