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Andrew Mackay

Head of Mobile Solutions

Asia-Pacific Region

Andrew leads the Mobile Solution group for Cisco in the APAC region. In his role he supports mobile service providers to develop optimal network architectures for their business requirements. He works closely with the Cisco product development and standards groups as a global thought leader on mobile technology.

For twenty years Andrew has worked in the areas of network engineering, operations, and strategy through four generations of mobile technology. Prior to joining Cisco, Andrew worked for Alcatel-Lucent as Wireless Strategy Director for APAC and before that for Philips Test & Measurement.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE/Communications Society, and holds a first class honours degree in electronic engineering from Canterbury University, New Zealand, and a post-graduate qualification in Business Administration.

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February 23, 2016

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Seeking real answers from MWC16

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The annual gathering that is Mobile World Congress (MWC) is upon us again. As always there will be the usual hype around 3 letter acronyms like NFV, SDN, SON, IoT...

December 17, 2015

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Telecom Asia Readers Rate Cisco VPC as NFV Innovation of the Year

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Telecom Asia has recently announced the winners of their 8th Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards. For the Cisco Mobility team it was a proud moment to receive the award for “NFV Innovation of the Year” for our Virtual Packet Core (VPC) solution. As a reader’s choice award it validates Cisco’s industry innovation, as recognized by […]

November 16, 2015

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Mobility IoT Opportunity and Challenge

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is widely accepted as a key business opportunity for Mobile Service Providers (MSP) in the next 5 years. One recent report from Analysys Mason, predicts $8 billion in new IoT/M2M revenues from 2013 to 2019 in APAC alone. Other report predict even larger business potential, but where everyone agrees is […]

November 12, 2015

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Mobility IQ Innovation Recognised with LTE Asia Award

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The Cisco wireless access analytics solution “Mobility IQ” won the top prize for the “Most Innovative Big Data Platform/Service” at the 10th annual LTE Asia Awards this month in Singapore. So what is so innovative about this solution, given that Wireless Access analytics is not a new area in the industry? Extracting value from the […]

September 16, 2015

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NFV RoI: The Current Business Drivers for Mobile Virtualisation

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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 17, 2015

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Leading the Evolution of the Mobile Packet Core

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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 3, 2015

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Point of View: Optimisation, Monetisation and Customer Privacy

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Guest blog from Paul Jesemann, Cisco Solution Consultant, Mobile Architecture, APJ In June, a mobile operator in India was accused of spying on its customers by inserting a javascript in browsing sessions on its 3G network. The service provider admitted it was using a solution to help customers keep track of data usage, yet in […]

February 27, 2015

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Ready for Mobile World Congress Hot Topics

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As I board the plane ready for the long flights to Barcelona, I’m excited and energised by the prospective of around 100 APAC customer meetings and Cisco technology demos. Hopefully...

February 11, 2015

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APAC leads Global mobile trends

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The annual Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Forecast, just out, once again shows the phenomenal growth expected in the mobile industry, e.g. more than 5.2...

December 22, 2014

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Wi-Fi moves to real-time with VoWi-Fi

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The recent release of the Cisco® Universal Wi-Fi solution for service providers is the industry’s first end-to-end solution with HD VoWi-Fi (Voice over Wi-Fi) as a key...