SP360: Service Provider

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One year ago, we announced the Cisco 8000 Series routers, combining the revolutionary Cisco Silicon One chipset and Cisco IOS XR, to deliver a breakthrough in high-performance routers. Discover how we expanded the Cisco 8000 Series routers over the past year.

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I recently had a virtual chat with PacketFabric CEO, Dave Ward. If you’re not familiar with PacketFabric, you will be soon. They are quickly becoming an industry mover and shaker in the Network-as-a-Service and next-gen Service Provider (ngSP) space. They’re also a customer of ours, having recently deployed the Cisco 8000 with our new 400G solutions.

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COPI is a new online tool for optics information that accompanies the popular Cisco Optics compatibility and interoperability matrices.

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Today we’re excited to announce the next chapter in the evolution of our Converged SDN Transport architecture, our new Routed Optical Networking, and cloud-native BNG solutions. And we are also pleased to announce some other noteworthy additions to the Cisco routing portfolio for mass-scale network infrastructures including the new NCS 540 Small Density Router, the […]

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Today we expand the Cisco Silicon One portfolio with three new devices to include 25.6T and 8T web scale switching devices and an 8T routing device. With three new 7nm devices released in just five months from our last announcement, we continue to expand our network coverage at an unheard-of pace. All this with a fully unified architecture, SDK, and P4 forwarding code offers convergence without compromise!

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Streaming is the future, and the future is here. Cisco is providing the hardware-based firewalling, routing and video transcode infrastructure needed to support an innovative, new TV streaming platform and content distribution model from Planet Earth TV, LLC, DBA (BOSSTV) to over 176 channels of programming in Spanish, English, and Italian.

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Packet buffer capacity in a switch is a critical parameter that influences the throughput of a network. Ultra-high-speed switches use Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM)-based buffering, a scarce and expensive resource. Employing an innovative, fully shared architecture, Cisco Silicon One devices extract maximum and predictable performance from the available buffer.

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Deep buffers on network switches cost money and can add increased latency and reduce performance when used incorrectly. This blog offers the basics of buffering and offers tips to selecting the right buffer for media and broadcast engineers.

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Cisco is proud to welcome Charter Communications as a new advanced partner within the Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Program with the launch of its Managed Network Edge (MNE) solution powered by Cisco Meraki’s comprehensive platform of security, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, switching, and smart camera solutions.