SP360: Service Provider

Midsize/small service providers will encounter increased competition over the next few years. To maintain competitiveness and differentiate themselves, we discuss five core functions that provide a unique advantage, from improving asset monetization to leveraging partnerships and bringing new services to market.

Over the past 12 to 18 months, the Cable industry has been put to the test, and come out shining. As millions of people adapted to working and learning from home, cable networks held up and enabled the unprecedented transition. But the transition was not without its challenges.

Join us for Episode 16 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a new conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

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.

Midsize and small SPs—service providers with a customer base of 1 million customers or less—have relatively small customer bases and limited technical staff. However, they possess many of the same business and operational challenges as larger operators, but their approach to executing business strategy is noticeably different from the rest of the market.

Cisco and Meta (formerly Facebook) unveil the Wedge400C, a 12.8 Tbps OCP white box system that utilizes Cisco Silicon One Q200L

Routed Optical Networking - This transformational architecture drives network optimization, accelerated time to service, and decreased total cost of ownership

Join us for Episode 15 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a new conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

In collaboration with Telefónica, Securitas, Alisys, ZTE, and the Universidade de Vigo, we deployed the first European 5G Stand Alone (5G SA) private network, that's ultra-advanced, flexible, and adaptable to different types of services for the surveillance sector.