SDN

September 30, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Cisco Advancing Virtualization with AT&T

1 min read

Cisco’s secret weapons are our engineers and our commitment to innovation that solves our customers’ business problems. When we committed ourselves to being the leader in networking virtualization in the service provider industry, our team has been maniacally focused on Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to enable our customers to transform their network architectures and prepare […]

September 29, 2015

DATA CENTER

What Du Can Do With ACI

2 min read

It seems people sometimes have this view of SDN as addressing rather esoteric use cases and situations. However, the reality is that while there are instances of ‘out there stuff’...

September 24, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco cBR-8: Re-imagining CCAP with SDN

2 min read

Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing In an age of agile service creation with a virtualized IT infrastructure, the delivery of services by cable operators is undergoing a transformation. Two key technologies that are fueling this change are Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). In this blog, we […]

September 22, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

WAN Automation Engine and Segment Routing: Two Great Solutions Even Better Together

2 min read

Are you looking to deliver an intelligent, dynamic and highly optimized programmable network where applications have control in how they explicitly traverse the end-to-end network? If so, you have probably been watching the Application Engineered Routing story unfold since it was launched in March 2015. For those of you following this developing chapter in the […]

September 17, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Leading the Evolution of the Mobile Packet Core

2 min read

I was reading the latest ACG Research report on Mobile IP Infrastructure and reflecting how the importance of the IP Packet Core has evolved, and how the technology leaders in this area have also evolved. Back in the “3G era” the Packet Core sat alongside the Voice Core, and was considered an adjunct to the […]

September 17, 2015

DATA CENTER

Policy Driven Infrastructure to Transform Your Microsoft Cloud, Apps, and Operations

2 min read

Please join us Thursday Sept 24, 2015 11:00AM ET for a WindowsITPro virtual event. We have an information packed agenda planned for you encompassing: The cloud, the hybrid cloud, and the private cloud. Software-defined networking and policy-based automation. The idea of application policy in next generation networking technologies and how they differ from the networks of today. […]

September 16, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

NFV RoI: The Current Business Drivers for Mobile Virtualisation

2 min read

Written by Paul Jesemann, Cisco Solution Consultant, Mobility Architecture, APJ, September 2015 If someone were to define a safe bet, it would be on the number of blogs about NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), its drivers and benefits out there, by far exceeding the actual number of Virtual Network Functions deployed. So please let me try […]

September 16, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Capitalizing on Your Evolved Programmable Network through Faster and More Efficient Cloud Services Delivery

2 min read

SDN (Software Defined Networking) and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) technologies are expected to help Service Providers gain new efficiencies and previously unimagined speed and agility in cloud services delivery so they can seize new business opportunities and achieve continued growth. Specifically, SDN in the data center helps you abstract services and applications from the complexities […]

September 15, 2015

DATA CENTER

Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something: Big Data with Cisco & Splunk at .conf & Strata

4 min read

Someone at a meeting recently told me how cool it was that big data was finally moving out of the early adopter phase. He’s lucky I wasn’t drinking a beverage at the time, or he might have ended up wearing it. I’m accused of being sort of a unicorn when it comes to the Big Data […]