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Greg Smith

Sr. Manager, Marketing

Cisco Solutions Marketing

Greg Smith is a Senior Marketing Manager for Cisco’s solution marketing team focused on hybrid work outcomes. In this role he leads a sales-focused portfolio marketing organization with global campaign responsibilities across network, security, and collaboration. Prior to joining the solutions marketing group, Greg spent over 25 years focused on the service provider industry - engineering, selling, and promoting carrier-class solutions to cable, mobile, and telco operators across the globe. Greg served two terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives where he served on the House Science, Technology, and Energy committee. Representing two towns on the Massachusetts border, he was a passionate advocate for bringing broadband access to rural areas of New Hampshire to drive economic growth and economic opportunity. While originally from in Silicon Valley, Greg has earned a BSEE from Auburn University, an MSEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Diplôme de Spécialision in Telecommunications from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité in Metz, France.

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February 29, 2016

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The Cisco cBR-8 Evolved CCAP and Remote PHY (RPHY)

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing CCAP Architecture: Remote PHY (RPHY) In the distributed CCAP architecture (DCA), the remote PHY (RPHY) component is what keeps DOCSIS relevant in the emerging world of digital fiber. It is of particular significance when a commercial digital fiber plant and a residential analog fiber plant […]

February 12, 2016

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Data Center Interconnect: Next-Gen Apps and Platforms

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We invite you to attend a free webinar Thursday, February 28 that will explore how network operators can solve Data Center and WAN interconnect challenges by leveraging cutting edge data center interconnect (DCI) technology from Cisco – the Network Convergence System (NCS) 1000 Series.

February 11, 2016

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Cisco and the Altice Group: Powering the First Available Subscription VoD service with 4K/Ultra HD Content

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, Service Provider Product and Solutions Marketing Powered by the Cisco cBR-8 converged broadband router, the Altice Group’s new Zive subscription-based video-on-demand service will be launched in all markets. An industry leading cable offering, Zive features more than 5,000 high-definition (HD) programs, including more than four hundred 4K/ultra HD children’s programs, movies […]

February 8, 2016

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KRBO: Delivering One Gigabit per Second Connectivity with the Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Router

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, Service Provider Product and Solutions Marketing KBRO, the largest cable television provider in Taiwan, has announced that it will use the Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Router to deliver one gigabit per second high speed internet connections to its customer base. Already known for its innovations and forward-thinking network architectures, KBRO […]

December 8, 2015

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The New Cisco Network Convergence System 1000 Series

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Guest Blog by Leonard Luna, Marketing Manager Cisco recently announced a new solution that will be instrumental in the network digitization transformation era: Software Innovations for Cloud Scale Networking. These enable service providers and web companies to deliver cloud applications with greater agility, automation and simplicity, while reducing the operational cost of the networks that […]

November 12, 2015

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Cisco Live Cancun Delivers Great Conversations on Service Provider Innovations

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cancun is a paradise for many and thus it is known to draw crowds. Another reason for Cancun’s popularity is...

November 4, 2015

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Validating Cisco Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) – Part 2

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Guest Blog by Ram Haridasa,  Sr. Marketing Manager Lightreading commissioned the European Advanced Networking Test Center team evaluation of Cisco’s NFVI solution in September 2015. The first part of the resulting report, which provides an overview of Cisco’s NFVI and an in-depth, multi-page performance evaluation of Cisco’s virtual switch technology, has been published — see Validating […]

November 3, 2015

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Simple Device Management, Network Provisioning and Network Assurance for Small Carriers & RLECs

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Guest Blog by Alison O’Brien, Product & Solutions Marketing Manager Small Carriers and the NMS/EMS Small carriers and rural local exchange carriers (RLECs) often forgo Network Management Systems/Element Management Systems (NMS/EMS) platforms because they don’t have dedicated IT departments. They often have limited staff, time and in some cases lack the breadth of technical IT […]

October 27, 2015

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Cisco Live Brings Latest Innovations to Latin America

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco Live has become one of the main IT conferences in the Latin America region as it gathers customers, experts...