Tail-F

Fast Tracking Network Automation

2 min read

Traditional telco operations support systems (OSS) have tended to focus on point solutions that provide specific functions in their own attempt to automate networks. However, this approach has often failed to live up to its promise.

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.

February 2, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Automate and Simplify Your Operations – Cisco NSO Leads the Way

3 min read

Change is never easy. And network management teams are facing unprecedented change as Service Providers are under pressure from their enterprise customers to deliver and support more agile service offerings. New technology innovations like programmable networks and network functions virtualization (NFV) can give service providers the operational agility and increased scalability needed to meet these […]

October 28, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

With Programmable Networks, Level 3 Puts Customers Front and Center

3 min read

What does it take to be an agile digital service provider in today’s competitive marketplace? For Level 3, it’s all about speed, simplicity, and flexibility. Claudio Scola (pictured left), Level 3’s director of global product marketing, spoke with Cisco about how the company is using orchestration and software-defined networking (SDN) to deliver customized service offerings […]

October 12, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

SoftBank Cuts Cloud Service Deployment Times by Nearly 90 Percent With Network Virtualization, Automation, and Orchestra …

2 min read

In the competitive market for network services, it’s getting harder for operators to stand out from the crowd. SoftBank, a Tier-1 service provider in Asia, is changing the game with automation, virtualization, and orchestration. Today, enterprise customers can select and tailor network service offerings for precisely what they need from SoftBank’s SmartVPN Web portal. With […]

September 6, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Speed, Agility, Automation—It’s All Possible with Cisco NSO

3 min read

For cloud service providers, the market landscape can look like an ocean of new opportunities—or an obstacle course with one difficult challenge after another. Both perspectives are legitimate: Network services have never been more in demand, and cloud providers who capitalize can unlock major new revenue streams. But customer expectations have never been higher. They […]