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Shruti Jain

Leader, Project & Program Management

X-Architecture Marketing, Enterprise Networking & Cloud

Shruti Jain is the lead for thought leadership and data driven insights within Cisco’s x-architectural marketing team in Enterprise Networking and Cloud organization. Her latest project is Cisco’s Hybrid Work Index , that identifies work trends based on data and insights from various Cisco platforms across people and culture, collaboration, security, and networking. In her previous role as a senior analyst on Cisco’s SP thought leadership team she has been a key contributor and spokesperson for Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI)—forecasting and analyzing the growth and use of the Internet and IP networks worldwide. She was also the lead analyst for Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI)—forecasting the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic as well as analysis of trends associated with data center virtualization, public vs. private cloud computing. She has deep knowledge about the Internet and service adoption, evolution of smart/ multi-media devices and machine-to-machine connections, applications by vertical, mobile adoption of various generations of technologies including 2G to 5G and IoT specific LPWA, cord-cutting, SD, HD and UHD adoption of video, metro vs. edge analysis. Shruti is a Cisco veteran and has been with the company for over 20 years. She started her career with the company as a financial analyst and then moved on to marketing, where she has had a variety of marketing analyst roles (supporting service provider segment, corporate marketing, and now enterprise marketing). Shruti has had prior experience with Unisys as a financial analyst and worked as a marketing intern with Maruti Suzuki, an Indian car manufacturing company. She has earned an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University, California and has M.A. in Economics from University of Rajasthan, India. Her personal hobbies and interests include traveling, reading, hiking, and learning new languages and cultures.

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February 26, 2019

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Mobile VNI Forecast 2017-2022: 5G emerges and is here to stay!!

The blog provides mobile VNI insights into 5G deployment - what to expect and when.

December 4, 2018

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Global IP Networks Focus on Sharpening Their Edge

According to the latest VNI forecast, the Service Provider networks are growing edgier.

June 29, 2017

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Global digitization – connecting homes, health, cities and what not!!

By 2021, there will be an average of 1.75 M2M connections per capita globally – demonstrating how pervasive M2M connections are going to become to our networked lives making Internet of Things (IoT) a reality.

April 12, 2017

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Imagining 5G: The Future Network of ”Things”. The Evolving Landscape of IoT and Wearables

5G, with very high bandwidth, ultra-low latency and dynamic resource allocation capabilities, is going to shape the evolving IoT landscape.

February 7, 2017

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Predicting the impact of 5G. Mobile innovation will create new levels of bandwidth consumption

The 2017 Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecasts that there will be about 25 million 5G capable devices and connections by 2021, which will generate 8.9 exabytes (EB) of annual mobile data traffic.

December 13, 2016

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Containers Hold an Agile Approach to Data Center Virtualization

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, container is a noun, and is defined as a receptacle for holding goods. Alternatively, it also means, a portable compartment in which freight is placed (as on a train or ship) for convenience of movement. In this blog, I’ll be talking about containers in the networking sense and the important […]

December 5, 2016

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Global Data Center Growth: Supporting the Next Data Deluge

Data centers house servers, physical or virtual, that provide storage, communications, and networking to the growing number of networked devices, users, and business processes in general. The growing importance of data analytics—the result of big data coming from ubiquitously networked end-user devices and IoT alike—has added to the value and growth of data centers. We […]

August 16, 2016

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Comparing Generational Digital Footprint

It’s often said that “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” – and my “apple” has fallen very close to me. This summer, my 18-year-old daughter earned the opportunity to work as an intern at Cisco. As a 20-year Cisco veteran, my daughter’s internship inspired me to reflect on my career experiences in the Internet […]

July 22, 2016

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Game on!!!

This weekend, I evinced a big change in my youngest daughter. She emerged from her summer couch potato cocoon and blossomed into an active youngster chasing after fictional creatures in natural sunlight. Within 2 days of its launch, Pokémon Go had number of users almost at par with Twitter, the popular social media network that […]