Service Provider

February 2, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Orchestrating the right technologies and expertise in the fight against piracy

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The media and entertainment industry is struggling to deal with piracy. While investment in content protection technology is growing, determined attackers always find a way to extract content. Once the content is out on file sharing networks, there is very little that can be done to block its redistribution. But for live content the story […]

February 2, 2017

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Automate and Simplify Your Operations – Cisco NSO Leads the Way

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Change is never easy. And network management teams are facing unprecedented change as Service Providers are under pressure from their enterprise customers to deliver and support more agile service offerings. New technology innovations like programmable networks and network functions virtualization (NFV) can give service providers the operational agility and increased scalability needed to meet these […]

February 1, 2017

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Telecom operators: The key pillars of virtualization

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Telecom operators: The key pillars of virtualization Cisco believes a virtual network should be more than the sum of its parts As businesses go digital, they will need new kinds of networks to support them – networks that allow them to deliver the flexible, adaptable products their customers now expect. The enabler of this change […]

January 31, 2017

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Remote PHY, Cablelabs Interoperability “plug-fest” December 2016

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December 2016 will go into history as the month when the first “ Open RPD” Remote PHY interop was completed at Cablelabs®. The event, hosted by Cablelabs® took place in Denver the week of the 5th of December. Multiple vendors participated, many of them member of the Open-RPD forum. What was Open-RPD again? Open-RPD is […]

January 26, 2017

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Fiber Deep Architectures and the Optical Node

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Written by Tim Brophy, Product Manager Cable Access Business Unit In a recent blog, we discussed Fiber Deep (FD) architectures and their place in the end-to-end network. We emphasized there that the physical topology is geared toward balancing the number of subscribers per service group, and that the capacity of each service group increases by […]

January 25, 2017

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It’s the most wonderful time… of the year!

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For those who are passionate about technology impacting the Consumer Electronics space, CES is magical… and this year’s show did not disappoint.

January 20, 2017

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OpenConfig on Cisco Platforms

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With a lot of buzz around supporting vendor-neutral data models at the device layer, it's a good time to discuss how Cisco is supporting open models, and OpenConfig models.

January 19, 2017

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Millennials or Unicorns?

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Who’s your audience – millennials or unicorns? Of course, the answer is neither, because neither exist. It’s pretty much impossible to define what a millennial is – try it, Google has plenty of results. It’s become a shorthand term for the stage in life somewhere between skateboards and mortgages, between saving up for your first […]

January 13, 2017

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Here’s Why Today’s Networks Can’t Be Run Like It’s 1999

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There are new and much more advanced demands on public and private networks driven by cloud and IoT-based applications such as 4K streaming, connected/autonomous car safety applications, Virtual Reality (VR) streaming, and Telemedicine.