Sovereignty and national security have always been key concerns for national governments. The need for self reliance and the avoidance of reliance on external parties are natural instincts for countries. In the early days, many developing economies adopted a policy of …Read more.
Posted by Seow Hiong Goh on November 22, 2009 at 06:06PM
With the release of more information this week from the Visual Networking Index , it’s clear that traffic is increasing and bandwidth usage is on-the-rise (no slowdown in sight). As our video consumption becomes more voracious, service providers around-the-world are …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on October 22, 2009 at 02:02PM
Last week was the most important telecommunications tradeshow in Latin America – Futurecom, held in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Oct. 13-16. Broadband and the role new applications (mainly video) are playing in redefining the service provider market were hot topics. …Read more.
Posted by Felipe Lamus on October 21, 2009 at 04:37PM
The average broadband subscriber in the world generates 11.4 Gigabytes of traffic per month, and the top one percent of users generate over 20 percent of the global internet traffic. These and other interesting insights can be found in the …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on October 21, 2009 at 08:29AM
Hello, from Geneva where I’ve been attending the ITU Telecom World Conference for the last few days. It’s been three years since the last show, and it’s energizing to see the ever increasing recognition as to the increased role that …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on October 08, 2009 at 01:47PM
John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems, summarizes his experience at ITU highlighting how the network will become the platform for innovation, how broadband is enabling job creation and entertainment, and how service providers are looking to partner with Cisco …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on October 08, 2009 at 11:24AM
Cisco VP of Service Provider Marketing, Suraj Shetty, shares insights from customer meetings at ITU in Geneva highlighting optimism in technology adoption and acceleration. After the jump, hear more from Cisco SVP Kelly Ahuja…
Posted by Doug Webster on October 08, 2009 at 10:28AM
Broadband Gear Report - an online publication that highlights new and innovative products in the cable industry has awarded Cisco with two diamond awards. Unlike many publications where magazine editors choose the winners, Broadband Gear Report assembles a judging panel …Read more.
Posted by Murali Nemani on October 05, 2009 at 11:07AM
For the last two decades it seems as though Africa has been something of a bystander in the digital revolution. While Internet users in America, Asia and Europe can access rich media content at increasingly blistering speeds, in most of …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on October 05, 2009 at 11:49AM
Cisco’s brand and global reputation as an innovator, networking leader and socially responsible company makes it a great place to work. I had the privilege to speak at the opening of the NASDAQ yesterday with London’s Mayor Boris Johnson and Ben Gallop, head of BBC Sports Interactive. …Read more.
Posted by Carlos Dominguez on September 15, 2009 at 01:41PM
This is the name of an innovative initiative from Cisco in Chile in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy to support and help small companies to use the network as a competitive advantage—to improve processes, increase productivity, reduce operational costs …Read more.
Posted by Felipe Lamus on September 11, 2009 at 02:03PM
I moderated a lively session at the Broadband World Forum 2009 today September 8 in Paris: Why Should Enterprise Companies Care About This “IP Transformation?” IP transformation is not a question of when, in fact, it is here; moreover, the …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on September 10, 2009 at 08:35AM
Our video reporter, Zoya Fallah, met with Dave Brown and Asha Kalyur, both Marketing Managers who are responsible for Cisco’s Service Provider Video Solutions, to discuss the deployment of Cisco’s DOCSIS 3.0 Solutions. Check out this video interview to hear …Read more.
Posted by Zoya Fallah on August 27, 2009 at 01:20PM
Earlier this week Cisco’s corporate medical director, Dr. Pamela Hymel and director of Internet Business Solutions Ash Shehata joined Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital President-CEO Christopher Dawes and others for a roundtable discussion …Read more.
Posted by Kristin Carvell on August 07, 2009 at 09:27AM
Recently I had the remarkable opportunity to meet President Kikwete of Tanzania and hear his vision for the future of his country. I was struck by how passionate he was about technology being the key for his developing country to …Read more.
Posted by Kristan Gainey on August 03, 2009 at 09:24AM
Today, we launched a new pilot jobs training program in Michigan that was lauded by President Barack Obama in a speech at the Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan. The new program, built on the Cisco Networking Academy platform, is …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on July 14, 2009 at 11:35AM
For every 10 percentage-point increase in high speed Internet connections there is an increase in economic growth of 1.3 percentage points. This is one of the conclusions from the World Bank report “Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach …Read more.
Posted by Andres Maz on July 08, 2009 at 11:57AM
Last week in the beautiful city of Capetown, South Africa, the 19th World Economic Forum on Africa took place. Nine hundred participants from 50 countries participated on this event to candidly discuss the future of the region and its main …Read more.
Posted by Felipe Lamus on June 16, 2009 at 09:18AM
During the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in Russia this week, Cisco’s VP of Internet Business Solutions Group, Mohsen Moazami, gave his perspective on the need to build broadband infrastructure to support continued development of the Russian economy and outlined Cisco’s …Read more.
Posted by Marc Musgrove on June 05, 2009 at 02:05PM
OK, I admit it – I’m a Brit abroad and I’m addicted to the BBC website. There’s something very homely about reading stories about the UK, whether it be to commiserate Manchester United’s failure to get over the final hurdle …Read more.
Posted by Christopher Gow on May 29, 2009 at 08:59AM
Just this week, Cablevision announced it has taken a bold step towards accelerating the global competitiveness of the U.S. market in broadband speeds while delivering consumers a rich platform for service innovation. In their press release, Cablevision stated that they …Read more.
Posted by Murali Nemani on April 30, 2009 at 08:08AM
The World Economic Forum on Latin America closed last week on a very positive note of optimism for the region. Most attendees were pleased with the positive mood of Rio do Janeiro compared to Davos in January. This shows that …Read more.
Posted by Felipe Lamus on April 21, 2009 at 12:51PM
Every once in awhile I read a news article, blog post or press release that makes me think “this is a really big idea”. Turns out today was one of those days. While in a meeting I was forwarded a …Read more.
Posted by Mike Kisch on March 25, 2009 at 10:23PM
With an homage to Goose, Maverick and Iceman, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) yesterday released a report entitled, “The Need for Speed: The Importance of Next-Generation Broadband Networks.” On this site, you can download the report, see the …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on March 06, 2009 at 10:01AM
In a guest post on GigaOm.com, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers argues that the U.S. needs “a broadband strategy befitting a country that has long been a technology leader and innovator.” He states, in part, “Now that President Obama …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on March 04, 2009 at 05:00AM
Like many Indians, I woke up today with an Oscar fever, watching the live telecast of the Academy awards from Los Angeles! Most of India is toasting to the success of Slumdog Millionaire at the Oscars today. A staggering eight …Read more.
Posted by Harish Krishnan on February 23, 2009 at 08:41AM
“Passage of the stimulus package in the Senate sends a message to all Americans that we are investing in the future of our country. From broadband, healthcare information technology, Smart Grid and education, a foundation will be laid to help …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on February 10, 2009 at 11:25AM
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers contributed a guest column to the Wall Street Journal management page which is now online. In the column he says the current economic downturn gives us “the biggest opportunity of our lifetime” to fundamentally …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on February 09, 2009 at 03:51PM
Sure there is invariably going to be the requisite smack talking around this topic - John Earnhardt claims that he was twittering when “it was spelled with only ‘t’” and Mike Kisch counters that he has adopted a “100% visual …Read more.
Posted by Doug Webster on February 03, 2009 at 09:57AM
Over the last year, we have continued to see mass adoption of video in every aspect of our lives and it is changing the way we live, work play and learn. Just this weekend, I was with a friend showing …Read more.
Posted by Kelly Ahuja on January 30, 2009 at 08:38AM
With just 20 days until US analog television broadcasting shuts down, the various parts of the federal government are in a dither over whether to hit the brakes to give themselves four more months to prepare for the dawn of …Read more.
Posted by Mary Brown on January 28, 2009 at 02:41PM
Wandering back to work this morning after a long weekend full of Obama, I stopped to check out the new White House website. With a new Administration comes a new website and it was impressive to see that the Obama …Read more.
Posted by Jeff Campbell on January 21, 2009 at 01:36PM
Like many of us, I am the child of parents born during the Great Depression who came of age in the great upsurge of the post-World War II economy. As a young man entering the workforce, my father, a WWII …Read more.
Posted by Alan Cohen on January 12, 2009 at 11:33AM
Wanted to bring this op-ed in yesterday’s San Jose Mercury News to your attention by our Chairman and CEO John Chambers. Entitled “Time to Broadband the Economy” he discusses the stimulus package and gives some advice to the incoming Obama …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on January 12, 2009 at 09:30AM
My nearly two-year old LOVES YouTube. We have a playlist with trains and backhoes and fire engines and more. This morning we were searching for trains and I came across this video of passengers loading a train in Japan. It …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on December 09, 2008 at 09:40AM
It’s not my opinion. Most citizens and businesses in emerging markets cities (from Buenos Aires, Johannesburg to St Petersburg) think their local governments should play a role to facilitate Internet access and provide services online, according to a new survey, …Read more.
Posted by Cisco PR on December 02, 2008 at 11:03AM
Connected Urban Development is born from a commitment that Cisco gave to to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006 to showcase how pervasive broadband connectivity and ICT can help decrease CO2 emissions in large metropolitan areas. The CUD is a …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on September 24, 2008 at 01:03PM
I was reading a Thomas the Tank Engine book to my son Jack last night and the conflict in the story arc came when a piece of hail made a crack in the track. Thomas, of course, could not continue …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on July 15, 2008 at 11:21AM
When I speak with customers or at conferences, I often speak about data trends and applications as input to dimensioning a service and network. These data are being transmitted over a network; and, this fact highlights Cisco’s “Network as the …Read more.
Posted by Monique Morrow on July 14, 2008 at 10:07AM
Join Tony Bates, SVP and General Manager, Cisco Service Provider Group and Bob McIntyre, Chief Technical Officer, Service Provider Group, as they discuss the evolution of broadband through recounting pivotal events in the history of broadband and considering the collaborative …Read more.
Posted by Bob McIntyre on June 26, 2008 at 08:18AM
I attended a dinner last night hosted by Alec Ross and One Economy to discuss what this innovative group is doing “to deliver the power of technology and information to low-income people, giving them valuable tools for building better lives.” …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on June 18, 2008 at 05:19PM
Bob McIntyre, SVP Service Provider Video Technology Group, discusses Quad Play and the future of customer trends and demands for data, voice, and video delivered anytime…anywhere. Thomas Keenan, Dir. SP Data Center Solutions Guest Blogger
Posted by Al Safarikas on June 17, 2008 at 10:24PM
Earlier this week, the 18th edition of the World Economic Forum on Africa took place in Cape Town, South Africa. More than 700 leaders from the region gathered to discuss the future of Africa. At the opening plenary session five …Read more.
Posted by John Earnhardt on June 13, 2008 at 03:25PM
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