Articles
Deeper Service-centric Visibility Drives New Revenue and Simplifies Operations
3 min read
The addition of service-centric assurance brings a deeper, more precise, and real-time view of network and service performance for service providers and enterprises that run complex critical networks. AI-native predictive analytics lets you detect potential issues and act before your customers or users are impacted. Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance brings these capabilities to multidomain, multilayer networks and helps you to deliver premium high-performance services against competitive SLAs, while moving you closer to zero-trouble networks.
AI Takes Center Stage in the Data Center
4 min read
At Cisco Live, we are introducing new and enhanced solutions and technologies enable organizations to operationalize, simplify, and scale data center infrastructures to meet the evolving demands of AI, including a full-stack, cloud-managed AI solution and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to reduce data center footprint and complexity.
Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution
6 min read
Cisco is helping data center networks evolve to support AI/ML applications using Ethernet. With an AI/ML networking blueprint and a new strategic partnership with NVIDIA, Cisco is providing data center Ethernet networking solutions for customers to enable AI/ML workloads.
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Accedian: Accelerating High Performance Service Assurance
2 min read
Cisco announced its intent to acquire Accedian, an industry leading network performance monitoring partner that enables seamless operation of service provider transport and 5G networks.
Cisco and DISH: Delivering the Promise of 5G to Create a More Inclusive Future
1 min read
By applying a software-first approach, Open RAN and virtualization technology, DISH Wireless disrupted the market with the country’s first and only cloud-native 5G Open RAN network.
Catching the Next Wave of Innovation in Routing and Automation
4 min read
This blog covers our perspective on the trends driving transformation, how we are addressing those with our customers, and how we are preparing for the even newer inflection points we see on the horizon.
Multi-Vendor Automation: The Song Remains the Same
2 min read
People in the industry are coming around to something we’ve recognized and invested in for a few years now: any viable automation strategy needs to span vendors and technology domains. Networks are heterogeneous by nature, and for automation tools to accommodate that, the entire process needs to be automated, not just part of it. You need end-to-end insights instead of patchy islands of visibility.
Cisco and SONiC
2 min read
On November 9th and 10th, we had the opportunity to showcase our commitment at the 2021 Open Compute Project Global Summit with a demo scaling a next generation data center with SONiC VXLAN on the Cisco 8000 for customers wanting a fully integrated system with the silicon, platform, and IOS-XR from Cisco, or wants to run SONiC on Cisco hardware (Cisco 8000), or wants a Silicon only offering.
Cisco and IBM Commit to Seamless Automation for 5G Networks
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Together with IBM, we have integrated our products to enable the orchestration and management of 5G networks together with the underlying optical and IP transport networks in a single framework and solution, driven from any cloud.