virtualization
Milan, Please Meet Open Network Architecture for Service Providers
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By Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing When I look at the sky, I see an infinite number of stars. It is a moment of inspiration when I gaze at the sky in hope of spotting something miraculous. Looking at the Telecom industry and its new innovations, I feel the same. A new star is […]
Why Upgrade to MDS 9700
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MDS 9500 family has supported customers for more than a decade helping them through FC speed transitions from 1G, 2G, 4G, 8G and 8G advanced without forklift upgrades. But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs. Top four reasons for customers to upgrade are […]
Deliver Agility with Policy
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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone talks to you about Policy? Chances are, you think of rules and regulations telling you about what you cannot do while on a mobile app or online. You don’t think about Policy as a way to set you free or a way for your Service […]
Cisco SPotlight Series – The Year Ahead in Mobility
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To address many questions about mobility, I am delighted to share with you our point-of-view through our “Cisco SPotlight Series,” an ongoing course of videos in which we answer questions and provide commentary on many hot topics in the service provider industry. In this latest video, I reveal what mobile operators and their customers, including […]
Cisco Global Cloud Index (2013 – 2018): Data Center and Cloud Traffic for the Next Five Years
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What do our GCI Forecast projections mean for you? Today, Cisco released the fourth annual update of its Global Cloud Index, or GCI (see media release). For most people who follow cloud-computing, it’s no real surprise to learn that global data center traffic will nearly triple over the next five years or that cloud traffic […]
A Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA) Use Case in How to Manage Threat Defense
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This is part 4 of the “Your Business Powered By Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA)” blog series. Enabling & Delivering Cloud-based Security Services – Managed Threat Defense Many enterprises (30%) have been leveraging cloud services cautiously or only in an internal (private) cloud manner. The reasons for this vary but these are the most common: […]
Cisco Succeeded in Network Functions Virtualization System Trial
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I’ve had the opportunity this year to meet with mobile operator leaders from around the globe. Whether they are large or small, focused on consumer services or businesses, or engaged in video or mobility, their ambitions are much in line with our strategy: to help them monetize and optimize their networks, while accelerating their ability […]
Intelligent Transportation Systems Require Intelligent Mobile Networks
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At the ITS World Congress last month in Detroit, we saw a wide range of intelligent transportation solutions and concepts. The most popular solutions on display –presented by several Auto Manufacturers, ITS suppliers, and Cisco along with partner Cohda Wireless – were simulated and live Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) demonstrations, which showed how vehicles […]
A Deep Dive in the Role of Each of the Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA) Layers
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This is part 3 of the “Your Business Powered By Cisco Customer Solutions Architecture (CSA)” blog series. Physical Infrastructure Layer The physical infrastructure layer is where the physical resources reside. This includes equipment typically used in a data center such as network devices (switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers), computing resources, storage and facilities. Physical […]