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 18, 2012

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Streaming Is Going Mainstream: The Upward Arc of Online Video, Driven By Consumers

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Only a short time ago, consumers had limited choices for accessing professional video content. Today, a smorgasbord of options continues to multiply—from premium cable and DVDs, to online choices such as Apple, Netflix, and Hulu. Hardware options are equally dizzying, as traditional TV gives way to PCs, smartphones, and tablets. As portable devices meet the […]

December 13, 2012

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Who enables over 50% of all digital cable homes in India to watch TV? We do.

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By Jayant Changrani, Country Head and General Manager – India, NDS, now part of Cisco As we near the end of the calendar year, the last part of which as a newly acquired Cisco company, we’ve reached yet another milestone in India. At the end of 2011, NDS celebrated that its solutions were enabling digital […]

December 12, 2012

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The Mobile Internet Goes Underground

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A common refrain in the wireless world is “everything, everywhere”, but up until now there’s been one place wireless communications has not reached: underground. When Virgin Media came to us with the opportunity to work together to design and build a Wi-Fi network that would bring mobile broadband to passengers of the London Underground subway […]

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 […]

December 7, 2012

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Cisco Gets a Gold Star for Tech-Policy and Standards Leadership

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Innovation is often defined as novel technological invention. What is far less known about successful innovation efforts is that it takes a special breed of individual who possesses the rare combination of technical depth and sharp diplomatic skills. To be a successful innovator, one must be able to maneuver through political mine fields inherent with […]

December 4, 2012

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An Infrastructure Foundation to Deliver A World Of Many Clouds

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There has been major market traction this past year in the deployment of cloud services, but the discussion still too often focuses on cloud in the singular. Our experience has shown that companies are not typically adopting a single approach to cloud, but rather are embracing a rich set of approaches that provides them with […]

November 30, 2012

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Mobile Business Users Embrace Wi-Fi

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Once the exclusive domain of senior executives, mobile devices are now indispensable to most employees for conducting both their business and personal lives. The insatiable demand for smartphones, tablets, and other connected devices is generating staggering amounts of mobile data. In parallel, the use of Wi-Fi for Internet access is exploding as more mobile devices […]

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