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Building Jio Scale
The term web-scale has been with us just a few years. Mainly referring to managing a data center infrastructure with capabilities to scale in size, speed and agility, it has usually been associated with large cloud service firms such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix. It has not been associated with communications service providers. However, these […]
Automate and Simplify Your Operations – Cisco NSO Leads the Way
Change is never easy. And network management teams are facing unprecedented change as Service Providers are under pressure from their enterprise customers to deliver and support more agile service offerings. New technology innovations like programmable networks and network functions virtualization (NFV) can give service providers the operational agility and increased scalability needed to meet these […]
Game over. Automation Scores Huge Upset against Operational Costs.
When significant real-world ROI results come in from the field, we’re excited to share them. Some recent proof points from our service provider customers are especially compelling. Why? Because they’re about one of your biggest challenges―reducing high operational costs. Big Reductions in OpEx Confirmed Before the first human flew through the stratosphere, a space ship […]
Let’s Talk Simply About SD-WANs, Shall We?
If “talk nerdy to me” were to be elevated to an art form, then at Cisco, we’re Rembrandt! Following a recent article suggesting that our naming convention(s) for our line of Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) is confusing — I’d go so far as to say “drowning in six-letter acronyms and Dilbert-esque techno-jargon,” — I […]
Cisco NFV Infrastructure Solution – Carrier Class Network Functions Virtualization
Written By Volker Tegtmeyer, Senior Manager Product & Solution Marketing The adoption of Network Functions Virtualization is a top item...
Telemetry & Gaining Web Scale Operational Efficiency – Is it a Myth or Reality?
We can’t express how excited we were when Cisco was asked to sponsor and participate in an independent event, hosted by Tech Field Day, which invited experts from NetFlix, Google, eBay, and SignalFX to discuss the technical challenges some of these web scale providers face and the innovations they have helped drive in the industry […]
Security and What Matters Most…
Summer is officially in full swing. My kids have finished with another school year. Our family vacation has been planned. When the family is away on vacation together, I worry a bit about the safety and security of our home, our personal information and of course our physical well-being when traveling. Still, even with ever […]
Cyta Hellas Deploys Cisco Optical Solution for new High Speed Optical Network
By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Cyta Hellas, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Telecommunications Organization of Cyprus, is the latest network operator to deploy Cisco’s Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transport solution for a new high-speed backbone. Cyta is the most recent service provider to be licensed in Greece, […]
Register for the Infonetics Webinar: Building More Efficient Networks with Multi-Layer Packet-Optical
By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Tuesday, October 28 at 8:00 am PT/11:00 am ET, Cisco joins Infonetics’ Andrew Schmitt (Principal Analyst, Optical) on a three vendor panel to discuss how equipment vendors and their customers are taking advantage of new multi-layer packet-optical systems leveraging advanced software to build more capable […]
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