SP360: Service Provider

Service Providers are poised to capture more revenue from SMBs around the world. Cisco has the right cloud-enabled products, partner managed services capabilities, and go-to-market resources to make it easy for providers to accelerate growth. Delivered through a program called “High Velocity Managed Services for SMBs,” this blog outlines how Cisco SP partners can grow SMB revenue today.

The path to profitable 5G requires important decisions to be made in 5G core, trustworthy IP infrastructure, and an open radio approach. We must reimagine the end-to-end network. A 5G network transformation will require a trusted partner that is a cross-domain leader in Enterprise, Collaboration, IoT, Data Center, Security, AND SP Infrastructure.

The 5G revolution is set to unlock countless opportunities – but investing in enhanced solutions for the future can create financial obstacles. Find out how Cisco Capital is here to help.

Here’s what we need: build a data center that can support billions of unique server sessions per day. Also, let’s have it bring up personalized images, video, and other rich media content for hundreds of millions of people, simultaneously, the second they hit our servers. Learn how Cisco is quenching the thirst for capacity and scale.

This week, we released the first Cisco Annual Internet Report (2018 – 2023), a global, regional and country-level forecast with analyses that assess digital transformation across fixed broadband, Wi-Fi, and mobile (3G and below, 4G, 5G) networks.The new report provides quantitative projections (over a 5-year period) on the growth of Internet users, devices and connections as well as network performance and new application requirements.

The blend of advanced capabilities in iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro, and features built through the strategic partnership between Apple and Cisco, make the new models excellent devices both for users and for businesses that rely on mobile devices to run critical processes.

To what extent do content delivery network (CDN) caches deep inside the ISP or the operator network also improve QoE? Does it suffice to simply deploy the CDN appliance just past the peering point? This blog post describes a project, sponsored by Cisco’s  Research and Open Innovation initiative, to explore this very question.

It’s a new era, both for Cisco and the webscale companies working with us to shape the Internet of tomorrow. For the billions of people and millions of businesses that will depend on it, the timing couldn’t be better. Discover the ways webscalers are working with Cisco to rewrite the rules for data center agility, sustainability, and scale.

At the end of January, we hosted the annual ‘Cisco Live Europe’ in Barcelona where customers and partners from around the world got to see the latest launches and innovations Cisco has to offer including the biggest launch of them all: ‘The Future for the Internet’. Read on to find out my thoughts of the week and how the technology is proving wrong all those who said, "that will never catch on."