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Stephen Liu

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DT’s Ian Farrer on the All IPv6 TeraStream Network

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A few months back we announced how Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia’s largest telecommunications company, is using a Cisco’s end-to-end solution for its advanced TeraStream cloud-enabled Internet Protocol (IP) architecture. Operated by Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT), it’s initially providing broadband services to residential users in the Zagreb area of Croatia. Cisco and Deutsche Telekom have

Segment Routing: Impact on Software Defined Networks

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Segment routing (SR) is a concept that’s been working its way through the IETF standards process but is finally becoming ready for real world deployment. It’s a network technology that provides enhanced packet forwarding behavior while minimizing the need for maintaining awareness of mass volumes of network state. SR satisfies essential requirements for application-enabled routing […]

Cisco CTO of Engineering David Ward from MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2013

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SDN has become a popular topic – so much so that this year’s MPLS/Carrier Ethernet/IPv6 World Congress in Paris added an SDN Summit component. It’s an area of high interest for Cisco as we develop our Open Network Environment, a portfolio of Cisco technologies and open standards which brings programmatic control and application awareness to […]

How Are You Going to Secure Your Cloud Network Infrastructure?

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By Biren Mehta, Senior Marketing Manager, SP Marketing in Routing and Switching, Cisco Cloud computing brings a significant shift in how IT services will be deployed, delivered and consumed.  This promises to bring significant benefits to both consumers and suppliers in terms of agility, automation, and cost.  However, security remains a key barrier to realizing […]

The Mobile Business Case for IPv6

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This week is the industry’s leading IPv6 event, the World IPv6 Congress in Paris, France. Cisco Fellow Mark Townsley delivered the keynote again, this time with a theme around the “Mobile Business Case for IPv6”. What’s exciting is that in the mere 18 months since the World IPv6 Launch we’re already seeing significant adoption of […]

Maximizing Computing Economics with Cloud Intelligent Network

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By Biren Mehta, Senior Marketing Manager, SP Marketing in Routing and Switching, Cisco Today’s business is more distributed and mobile than ever.  Whether companies are building new data centers, redistributing existing servers, or outsourcing IT functions to public, private, and hybrid cloud delivery models, the network is at the center and a key control point […]

Breaking the Network Bottleneck: Why is 100G So Important?

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Service providers are rapidly transitioning their networks to 100 Gbps  in the core and it seems that every week brings a new technology, product, or customer announcement.  With that in mind we encourage you to join us at an upcoming webinar, 100G Optics: Why Operators Are Upgrading Now. It will feature results from surveys by […]

February 7, 2013

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Cisco Talks Next Generation Optical Transport at OFC 2013

Join Cisco executives and technology experts at one of the premier optical networking conferences from March 17-21 in Anaheim, California.  We welcome you all to be part of the dialog around Next Generation Transport technology! Optical networks are the foundation of communications today – and trends such as programmable networks, dynamic networking, interconnected data centers, […]

February 4, 2013

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Get Moving to V6 World Congress 2013

By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, Service Provider (SP) Marketing Routing and Switching The theme of this year’s V6 World Congress, happening in Paris, March 19-22, is “Going Mobile.” With the advent of the Internet of Everything and the proliferation of mobile devices well underway, there will be a lot to talk about. And this year, […]

January 31, 2013

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Taking Carrier Ethernet To Another Level: Cisco CE 2.0 Certification Pioneer

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By Biren Mehta, Senior Marketing Manager, SP Marketing in Routing and Switching, Cisco Have you ever tried to order a pizza that 20 different people would enjoy?  Just imagine getting twenty companies to agree upon a vigorous test plan that included over 600 test cases! (No easy cop-out by just getting plain cheese here…).  Big […]

January 24, 2013

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The Impact of Programmability on Networks Part 2

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Yesterday we reprinted the first part of Telecom Asia magazine’s interview with Brian Shoda, director of Cisco NGN architecture sales for Asia Pacific. Here is the second and final part of the story. 4. [Telecom Asia] How can telcos better optimize and simplify their network architectures? [Brian Shoda] The traditional layered and hierarchical model of […]

January 23, 2013

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The Impact of Programmability on Networks

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Last month Brian Shoda, a 12 year veteran of Cisco and most recently the director of Cisco’s IP NGN architecture sales for the Asia Pacific theatre, sat for an interview with Telecom Asia magazine. During the interview he discussed the impact of programmability on the network and why dynamically configuring services is important for telecom […]

December 21, 2012

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End of the World Revisited: No More IPs!

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We’ve posted this before, but in honor of the end of the Mayan calendar and the destruction of the world which was forecast for today we’re posting it again. In our mind, not having any more IP addresses would be a terrible event –  if you’re going to build the Internet of Everything you need […]

December 19, 2012

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Cisco Carrier Ethernet Wins Multiple Awards in APAC

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Just like we did last year, we’re closing out 2012 with another set of awards from our colleagues in the Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China (APJC) market. These include: Telecom Asia Readers’ Choice Awards 2012 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 29th 2012) for: Best Metro Network Vendor of the Year Carrier Ethernet Vendor of the […]

December 11, 2012

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Cisco Helps NxtGn and Telarix Deliver IPv6-enabled Video Solution

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We’ve talked about how the Internet is forecast to carry a million minutes of video every second in the next few years, and how Cisco’s Elastic Core solution will help the core infrastructure carry that load. But a scalable and flexible core is only one piece of the puzzle that network operators need. Who else […]