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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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October 27, 2015

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Cisco cBR-8 Rises up to the DOCSIS 3.1 Challenge at SCTE (part 2)

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing I am excited to continue the discussion that I started in my previous blog on SCTE Cal-Tec expo. We brought two cBR-8 routers and we used one to run live data through it.   We used Ixia gear to generate video and data traffic. Hence we […]

October 26, 2015

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Cisco cBR-8 Rises up to the DOCSIS 3.1 Challenge

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing What do we need to know about New Orleans? It offers great Jazz, and Bourbon Street provides rich insight into New Orleans’ past, but we can’t overlook that it has been home this year to SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. SCTE is the cable telecommunications engineering show […]

October 14, 2015

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South Korea’s SK Broadband Improving the User Experience with Cisco cBR-8

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Written By Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing A year ago, SK Broadband announced the world’s first 10 Gbps Internet service at the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference. This innovative new service was 100 times faster than existing services, which routinely deliver download speeds of 100 Mbps. Today SK Broadband continues to break new ground.   […]

October 13, 2015

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Validating Cisco Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI)

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Service Providers seeking to reduce operating expenses, deliver new services rapidly, are looking to SDN (Software Defined Networking) and virtualization technologies. Earlier this year, Light Reading and EANTC published an evaluation of Cisco’s virtualization and cloud solution, including multivendor network orchestration and optimization. They’ve now published a follow-on, that takes a closer look at the […]

October 13, 2015

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Cisco’s Packet Optical Network Conference Comes to Rome

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Guest blog by Leonard Luna, Marketing Manager, Cisco This year’s fall Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) convenes on November 3 and 4, 2015 in Rome Italy. Cisco executives and technology experts will convene in the “Eternal City” to present Cisco’s strategy and vision to help service providers, large enterprises, public sector agencies and data center […]

Simplifying Cable Plant Operations with SDN and DOCSIS 3.1

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Carriers are continually challenged to deliver on the customer experience. One of the benefits of Cisco’s cBR-8 Evolved CCAP is the built-in telemetry, programmability, and DOCSIS 3.1 support of the platform. This makes it ideal for gigabit-speed access applications that demand both an automated and […]

Enivest and Cisco Deploy a DWDM Network at Light Speed

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Guest blog by Dan Crawford, Marketing Manager, Cisco In the western Scandinavian fjords of Norway, Enivest an internet service provider has deployed a new optical transport network using a Cisco optical network solution (NCS 2000). While this, in itself, may not be big news to most people, the real story is about how Enivest managed this deployment.  For people who are […]

September 30, 2015

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DOCSIS 3.1: Driving Cable to Software Defined Networking

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Optical transport has been transformed as integrated high-performance Digital Signal Processing has enabled vendors such as Cisco to squeeze more capacity at greater distances than ever before. Advanced modulation techniques and Forward Error Correction are now commonly deployed. Cisco NCS 2000 platform can drive up […]

September 24, 2015

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Cisco cBR-8: Re-imagining CCAP with SDN

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Guest Blog by Igor Dayen, SP Product and Solutions Marketing In an age of agile service creation with a virtualized IT infrastructure, the delivery of services by cable operators is undergoing a transformation. Two key technologies that are fueling this change are Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). In this blog, we […]