SP360: Service Provider

Learn about the technology that enables the latest high speed pluggable optics. In part one of this two-part blog post, we will review the basics of forward-error correction (FEC).

Join us for Episode 26 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue a second conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

Traditional service provider networks have become very complex, creating significant operational overhead and costs. Mass network simplification takes a holistic approach to modern technologies, network design, and operational practices - simplifying networks across every domain while automating everything.

Join us for Episode 25 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we begin a second conversation with Ron Horan, who runs Product Management for the Cisco Client Optics Group.

Many enterprises are embarking on an Industry 4.0 journey, and evaluating the possibility of using 5G to achieve their goals. But so far cellular networks have predominantly been operated by communication service providers (CSPs). So how can 5G be introduced into an enterprise setting with minimal risk and disruption to existing business processes?

Increasingly competitive enterprise service level agreements (SLAs) will require service providers to find and fix problems before customers notice.

Cisco envisions a future where transport network services are requested based on outcomes and intents. A simplified, on-demand implementation would allow more consumable and user-oriented service structures. Intent-based next-gen transport orchestrators will be driven by industry requirements for "5G Network Slicing," Mobile Transport Services and "Network as a Service" (NaaS).

Worldwide we are seeing initiatives to expand connectivity to tens of millions of homes and millions of businesses for wireless services, satellite broadband, and most notably fiber network infrastructure. Software-Defined Networks are being expanded to include the access domain and will enable new applications to be monetized by Service Providers

Join us for Episode 24 of the Cisco Optics Podcast, where we continue our conversation with Tom Williams, Director of Technical Marketing in the Cisco group that came to us through the Acacia acquisition.