NFV

February 9, 2023

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Building a Commercial Scale 4G/5G Cloud Native Architecture and Platform

4 min read

The transition to 5G provided an opportunity for the industry to leverage new technology developed to deploy applications across public and private clouds.  By embracing a cloud-native architecture, the industry is steering in a new direction.

March 23, 2020

NETWORKING

How to quickly capture share of the SD-WAN Managed Services market

4 min read

More Enterprises are looking to service providers to ensure their connectivity to cloud applications are reliable and secure. Do you have the resources needed to take advantage of this opportunity?

Vodafone Idea Limited automates the India mobile enterprise with Cisco

2 min read

Vodafone Idea Limited, India's largest telecom service provider, is deploying a state-of-the-art, automated multicloud network country-wide to enable an unmatched experience for retail and enterprise customers.

February 25, 2019

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Enabling Rakuten Cloud Platform with Cisco NFVI and Orchestration Solutions

16 min read

You might have followed the launch of the commercial-friendly user trial by Rakuten Mobile Network Inc., the newest mobile network operator in Japan. Rakuten Inc., the parent company, is a well known Web and IT giant with diversified lines of business, such as eCommerce, FinTech, rich media content and social media apps.

December 4, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Managing the 5G Telco Cloud

2 min read

Buoyant 5G forecasts for APJ mean that mobile service providers in the region must rethink their data center infrastructure to lead in the 5G race.

November 2, 2018

CLOUD

What is Network Service Mesh and Why Do We Need It?

2 min read

You love Kubernetes, right? I don’t use it personally because that’s not my job, but when I talk to someone who does, the experience they describe sounds nothing less than...

Automating the Network in a Multicloud World

2 min read

How can we make Multicloud, SD-WAN, and Automation all work together to meet the agility and quality requirements of a digital economy?

July 25, 2018

CLOUD

It’s Time to Vote for OpenStack Summit Speakers!

2 min read

Open Source Community Simplify Your Releases, Work Fast, and Support Many Versions of OpenStack, Sam Betts, Brad Jones Extending the Reach of OpenStack Through Standards, Charles Eckel Combining Open Source with Open...

July 16, 2018

NETWORKING

Why Cisco SD-Branch is better than a ‘white box’

5 min read

Enterprise and service providers are redesigning the branch WAN network to consolidate network services from several dedicated hardware appliance types into virtualized on-demand applications running on software.