Cisco and Bell Canada Share Their POV on Private 5G at Cisco Live!

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At Cisco we’re seeing tremendous market opportunity for private 5G as-a-service (5GaaS). The promise of private 5G as a new consumer revenue platform for service providers has been slow to materialize, but private 5GaaS is capturing mind share, as more and more enterprises undergo digital transformation.

How to Invest in Middle Mile Networks to Bridge the Digital Divide

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Six strategies to unlock the possibilities of your fiber infrastructure investments. What you need to know to make the most of the Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure program to meet the needs of a growing hybrid workforce, deliver more capacity to rural regions, and bridge the digital divide.

Today’s high speed optical links would fail if not for this technology (Part 1)

3 min read

Learn about the technology that enables the latest high speed pluggable optics. In part one of this two-part blog post, we will review the basics of forward error correction (FEC).

Optics for hyperscale data centers (Part 2 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 26 notes

1 min read

Join us for Episode 26 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a second conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

Perspectives on the Future of Service Provider Networking: Mass Network Simplification

6 min read

Traditional service provider networks have become very complex, creating significant operational overhead and costs. Mass network simplification takes a holistic approach to modern technologies, network design, and operational practices - simplifying networks across every domain while automating everything.

Optics for hyperscale data centers (Part 1 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 25 notes

1 min read

Join us for Episode 25 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a second conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

Perspectives on the Future of Service Provider Networking: 5G and the future of enterprise wireless networks

5 min read

Many enterprises are embarking on an Industry 4.0 journey, and evaluating the possibility of using 5G to achieve their goals. But so far cellular networks have predominantly been operated by communication service providers (CSPs). So how can 5G be introduced into an enterprise setting with minimal risk and disruption to existing business processes?

Automated Service Assurance at Microsecond Speed

2 min read

Increasingly competitive enterprise service level agreements (SLAs) will require service providers to find and fix problems before customers notice.

Perspectives on the Future of SP Networking: Intent and Outcome Based Transport Service Automation

8 min read

Cisco envisions a future where transport network services are requested based on outcomes and intents. A simplified, on-demand implementation would allow more consumable and user-oriented service structures. Intent-based next-gen transport orchestrators will be driven by industry requirements for "5G Network Slicing," Mobile Transport Services and "Network as a Service" (NaaS).

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