SP360: Service Provider

3 min read

Written By Amrit Hanspal, Senior Manager, Service Provider Lead, Network OS Tech Group Cisco Live in San Francisco (next week!) offers a host of learning opportunities if you are part of a Service Provider, or a large Enterprise that offers services to internal groups. Let my blog be your guide to help you chart out […]

2 min read

In February we announced the Evolved Services Platform (ESP) as part of our Service Provider Cisco Open Networking Environment.  The ESP consists of a service broker (a storefront for SP applications), a catalog of virtual functions (components of the offerings) and an orchestration engine, which is essentially the factory the produces the applications themselves. One […]

3 min read

Written by Nick Thexton, Vice President and CTO, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco With almost a quarter of our waking time spent watching TV, video consumption is on a definite rise. Rather than competing, different devices and platforms are proving to complement each other, collectively contributing to that growth. But our digital lives […]

2 min read

With operational costs rising at a rate of 13% a year, carriers need to simplify their networks while leveraging virtualization and automation technologies to reduce the costs involved in bringing on new customers. What’s more, as bandwidth demands increase for video, mobile, and cloud services, network access can’t be a bottleneck for the customer experience. […]

2 min read

By Mike McKeown – Director of Business Development for Service Provider Video at Cisco, EMEAR It may be a month of bank holidays in Europe, but there’s no standing still for the video industry in May. We’re proud to say that it started with an announcement from Synergy Research (at the end of April) that […]

2 min read

To keep their viewers happy, video broadcasters find themselves increasingly eager to offer the best possible deal. Crafting offers that win business has not always been easy. Traditionally, offers have been tied to a single device, such as a set-top box, and limited to rudimentary models such as subscribing to one or more channels or […]

2 min read

The UN estimates that at some point between 2008 and 2009 the world’s urban and rural populations became equal in size for the first time in human history.  Urbanization is set to continue as the rural population seeks the wealth and social opportunity that cities offer. In the period from 2007 to 2050, the UN […]

2 min read

By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Timing is everything.  Faced with the ever-increasing challenges and opportunities of the Internet of Everything (IoE), the timing of Cisco’s Spring Packet Optical Networking Conference, May 13-15 at the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose, couldn’t be better. Fondly referred to as the PONC (‘pon-see’), […]

1 min read

Contributed By Dr. Ken Morse, Chief Technology Officer of Connected Devices at Cisco To compete in today’s market, your network needs to support new business models and increase revenue while lowering your operating expenses.  You need a network that is: Agile Comprehensive Open Integrated Extensible In order to reach these goals the network is increasingly […]