Agility – A service provider’s Secret Weapon

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Written by Tom Davies, Technical Solutions Architect The world can be a tough place for a service provider in today’s marketplace. Revenue per customer is declining and margins are shrinking. Over-the-top players are delivering services at an ever increasing pace and systems integrators are positioning themselves as end-to-end providers of complex services. It is a […]

How Will Mobile Operators Make Money in the Future?

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The mobile market continues to evolve at a blindingly fast pace. It seems as though new faster, sleeker, and more powerful mobile devices are launched every day. And new categories of mobile devices are created almost overnight. The number of applications available to run on these revolutionary new mobile devices is staggering, numbering in the […]

It’s Time to Play the SCTE IP Challenge!

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This is a partner perspective guest blog contributed by Steve Harris, Senior Director, Advanced Network Technologies. If the category is “SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® Highlights” and the answer is “The SCTE IP Challenge,” then the question is obvious:  “What major Cable-Tec Expo event gets underway next week?” While Cable-Tec Expo is a few months beyond the […]

Telecom Italia Creates SDN Network Testbed with Five Universities

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Telecom Italia is constantly on the lookout for innovative technologies that provide a competitive advantage. The goal is to be the first to offer new services to customers. The latest hot innovations around Software Defined Networking (SDN) caught Telecom Italia’s attention. SDN promises to simplify network operations. And simpler network operations are a big piece […]

Why We’re Joining the Linaro Digital Home Group

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Written By Ken Morse, CTO, Connected Devices, Cisco One of the unmistakable trends happening in consumer electronics is the steady and seemingly unstoppable rise of ARM-based chips as the norm in all kinds of gear, and particularly mobile devices such as tablets, and smart phones. It follows that ARM-based silicon is favored in the mobile […]

Cisco Carrier-Grade Virtualization for Mobile Operators

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Wow how time flies, three months ago there was snow and cold weather in Boston but at the same time it was quite hot at the 2014 MWC. Hot from all of the discussions on Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Orchestration were on everyone’s minds, as both mobile operators and vendors try to answer the […]

ANGA COM 2014 Closes on a Positive Note: Key Highlights from the Show Floor

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Another successful ANGA COM for Cisco. The event itself attracted 17,000 visitors and 1,700 participated in the Congress, listening to over 100 speakers – both areas attracting more people than last year – this is indeed a growing show! Cisco was well represented in panels and speaking sessions throughout the event, with Alon Bernstein´s talk […]

Fibrenoire’s Jean-François Lévesque shares tips with Cisco on how to thrive in the fast-paced service provider world

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Since its founding in 2007, Fibrenoire, based in Montreal, Quebec, has grown from a startup to one of Canada’s largest metro-fiber-to-the-business service providers. As further testament to their success Fibernoire was the first Canadian service provider to earn MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Services certification leveraging Cisco’s Carrier Ethernet Systems. We recently had an opportunity to […]

The Evolution of the Mobile Service Provider – A Five-Stage Strategy

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Written By Dan Kurschner, Senior Manager SP Mobility Marketing Over the past decades, Mobility has advanced from a mere curiosity (remember those “brick” phones?), to a convenience and today being an indispensable part of our everyday lives.  Businesses are leveraging the internet and the cloud to deliver new services and capabilities – via the mobile […]

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