November 12, 2021

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Cisco and SONiC

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On November 9th and 10th, we had the opportunity to showcase our commitment at the 2021 Open Compute Project Global Summit with a demo scaling a next generation data center with SONiC VXLAN on the Cisco 8000 for customers wanting a fully integrated system with the silicon, platform, and IOS-XR from Cisco, or wants to run SONiC on Cisco hardware (Cisco 8000), or wants a Silicon only offering.

November 10, 2021

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Midsize and Small Service Provider Opportunities and Challenges

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Midsize and small SPs—service providers with a customer base of 1 million customers or less—have relatively small customer bases and limited technical staff. However, they possess many of the same business and operational challenges as larger operators, but their approach to executing business strategy is noticeably different from the rest of the market.

November 9, 2021

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Cisco and Meta Partner on Wedge400C Data Center Switch

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Cisco and Meta (formerly Facebook) unveil the Wedge400C, a 12.8 Tbps OCP white box system that utilizes Cisco Silicon One Q200L

November 9, 2021

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Routed Optical Networking – It’s About the Architecture

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Routed Optical Networking - This transformational architecture drives network optimization, accelerated time to service, and decreased total cost of ownership

November 4, 2021

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Silicon photonics explained (Part 1 of 5): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 15 notes

1 min read

Join us for Episode 15 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a new conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

November 2, 2021

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Europe’s First Private 5G SA Network with Slicing Capabilities Surveillance Use Case

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In collaboration with Telefónica, Securitas, Alisys, ZTE, and the Universidade de Vigo, we deployed the first European 5G Stand Alone (5G SA) private network, that's ultra-advanced, flexible, and adaptable to different types of services for the surveillance sector.

October 27, 2021

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How to Make Your Broadband Application Competitive

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If you’re planning to apply for a broadband grant, keep in mind that all the work you put into your application will eventually get boiled down to a number: the score the proposal receives from the reviewers. It's important that your proposal not only be compliant with the application requirements, it should also be as competitive as possible by qualifying for as many additional points as your project can.

October 26, 2021

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Cisco and IBM Commit to Seamless Automation for 5G Networks

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Together with IBM, we have integrated our products to enable the orchestration and management of 5G networks together with the underlying optical and IP transport networks in a single framework and solution, driven from any cloud.

October 25, 2021

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Cisco Silicon One’s Lead Continues Growing

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Today we expand the Cisco Silicon One portfolio with our latest addition, Cisco Silicon One P100 -- a 19.2 Tbps routing device enabling the highest bandwidth fixed systems and modular line cards. We also expanded the G100 to enable the highest bandwidth, fully scheduled fabric element.

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