Articles
Carrier Wi-Fi Reaches the Mountain Top with Spark New Zealand
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Written By Lisa Garza, Cisco Service Provider Marketing, Mobility Solutions Not many of us would expect to get free Wi-Fi when standing on the top of the mountain at a...
VoLTE Policy Management to Improve Subscriber Experience and Lower Cost of Growth
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Written By Alfonso San Jose, Sales Consulting Systems Engineer We have been hearing from our Service Provider customers like you about their interest in Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE), and for good reason. Offering VoLTE affects profitability in two ways. One is by creating a great voice experience that helps to attract and retain […]
Stay Ahead of Internet of Things (IoT) Traffic Demands and Maintain Your Competitive Advantage
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By David Acosta, Technical Marketing Engineer Our service provider customers like you are trying to simultaneously keep pace with the surging network traffic...
Create Your Future Network Today with Cisco Quantum
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Written By Maywun Wong, Service Provider Mobility Marketing Manager Imagine you are at the airport, waiting for to come home after a long trip. You take out your phone to call your friend, and you immediately are alerted to a roaming offer that feels perfect for what you need. Therefore, you select it and continue […]
The Evolution of the Mobile Service Provider – A Five-Stage Strategy
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Written By Dan Kurschner, Senior Manager SP Mobility Marketing Over the past decades, Mobility has advanced from a mere curiosity (remember those “brick” phones?), to a convenience and today being an indispensable part of our everyday lives. Businesses are leveraging the internet and the cloud to deliver new services and capabilities – via the mobile […]
Cisco – Thales Win 2014 Coveted Global Telecom Business Innovations Award
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Written By Jim O’ Leary, Senior Mobile Solutions Marketing Manager What a great week to be in London last week, the weather was great with blue skies and warm weather. The main reason this week to be in London was to attend the annual Global Telecoms Business Summit and Innovations Awards, and what a great […]
VoLTE – A game changer for Policy
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By Alfonso San Jose, Sales Consulting Systems Engineer Now that LTE networks have been rolled out by most of the service providers in the world, the next objective for operators is the migration of the voice service to the LTE network. This migration is known as Voice over LTE or VoLTE. VoLTE brings the two […]
Cisco Quantum Virtualized Packet Core: Automated and Orchestrated
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By Jim O’Leary, Senior Mobile Solutions Marketing Manager So last week I attended the mobile industry’s World Cup or Super Bowl, the 2014 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The GSMA has just reported that more than 85,000 visitors from 201 countries attended the 2014 MWC attended the 4 day event, setting another new record. […]
Mobile Monetization Takes a Step Forward
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By Brian Walsh, Service Provider Mobility Senior Marketing Manager Among the discussions we had with global Mobile Service Providers in Barcelona at MWC 2014, here’s something that was certainly NOT breaking news: in the face of relentless growth of mobile data usage (see Cisco VNI), a top imperative expressed was to drive profitability by monetizing […]
Small Cell Industry Firsts with Multimode and Small Cell SON
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In June, I described how Cisco was closing the small cell loop with the rapid integration of both the Ubiquisys and Intucell teams into the Cisco family. Today I’m pleased to make three announcements that demonstrate the concrete results of all these bright minds coming together: Cisco has added LTE capability to our Universal Small […]
Setting New Wireless Venue Benchmark at the Fira de Barcelona
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For many of us, conferences like Mobile World Congress are places where we learn about the latest technology and industry developments, network with our colleagues, and...
Service Provider Wi-Fi Connects the IoE in the City of Barcelona
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By Maywun Wong, Service Provider Mobility Marketing Manager Mobility is here to stay. According to a recent...
SON-The Predictable Black Art
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By Paul Mankiewich, CTO of SP Mobility Paul Mankiewich, CTO of Service Provider Mobility, charts the history of SON to it’s current state of the art, and concludes that there is no point in deploying a small cell network without SON Technology. The market over the next 5-10 years is obviously going to be transitioning […]
Next Generation Hotspot Experience @ Beijing
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By Lisa Garza, Cisco Service Provider Marketing, Mobility Solutions In the blink of an eye, a Hotspot 2.0 industry milestone was achieved last week. Cisco joined with China Mobile and 15 other operators to provide a Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) Experience to over 400 attendees at the WBA Wi-Fi Global Congress in Beijing. The NGH […]