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Ben Colling
Ben Colling
Manager, Sales
Global Service Provider, EMEAR
Ben has been at Cisco for 10 years, with all that time focused on working with Service Providers to build future-proof and profitable networks.
Following the Cisco graduate programme, Ben joined the BT account team, and for the last 7 years has been working across all major EMEAR-based Service Providers as a Routing and Optical Integration specialist.
Ben now manages an elite team of Consulting Systems Engineers, helping to architect 5G-ready Access and Aggregation solutions for our Service Provider customers.
Articles
Over the last few years, we’ve invested heavily in bringing the benefits that make Cisco worldwide market share leaders in Core and Edge Routing deeper into the network. Our service provider-focused IOS-XR operating system and other advancements now let us reach all the way to the cell site router, right where the wireless customer hits the ground. And we’ve gone one step further by creating a flexible transport solution that integrates fronthaul and backhaul networks, combining the various wireless and wired technology into a packet-based SDN for 5G. This xHaul portfolio is at the core of our converged, end-to-end packet infrastructure, from the access layer into the application, wherever it may reside.
Video streaming services are putting new demands on Telecom and Media service providers. Developing the aggregation part of their network is crucial if they want to keep up
Providing 5G connections will be expensive. But service providers can achieve sustainable success if they invest intelligently
Our new solution is a cost-effective route to reliable 5G connections – and the innovative services they make possible
Segment routing enables data to take more efficient paths through a network, without extensive programming, and allows service providers to manage their capacity and traffic with less supervision.
Programmability is an exciting area of network technology that creates a world of new agile services for service providers. When it comes to creating fast, flexible, on-demand services, programmability is key
Learn how service providers are impacted and what are the endless reasons to be #5G ready
