Cisco Services
Go Slow to Go Fast: Why Cisco Services Invests More Up Front
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There are 2 questions I am asked from time to time: The first is related to my job – “OK I understand what's involved in product development, but why do ‘service...
On the Road to Digital, Where’s Your Map?
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Digital trends like mobility, IoT, cloud, and analytics are changing the way the world does business. As a leader, you know these trends offer you the opportunity to innovate, automate,...
Yes Adopt DevOps But Don’t Forget The Pain of Re-Writes: My Biggest Software Lesson Ever
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As we deliver more and more software projects in my part of Cisco Services, I have a keen interest in software development best practices. And concerns on poor practices. A...
CHILL Brings Home The Gold For Cisco at the Edison Awards
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Kudos to the Cisco Hyperinnovation Living Labs (CHILL)! This cutting-edge group in Cisco Services took home the gold at the prestigious Edison Awards in the category of Collective Disruption. Established in 1987, the Edison Awards recognize and honor innovative products and business leaders. CHILL was nominated for a unique program in which a group of […]
Cisco Service Quality Management for Cable and Media
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By Jan Bogaert, BDM, Service Provider Cable and Media, Cisco Services Two important consumer trends that have a high impact on the way Content and Service Providers and Cable MSO’s...
Innovation in Action: Warp Accelerated Rapid Prototyping (WARP)
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We know innovation requires more than just a great idea - it requires the successful delivery of a solution, and that starts with working prototype. A few weeks ago, we...
CHILL is Doing Cool Innovation
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In my last blog, I touched on some of cool innovation happening at Cisco. Today, I want to focus on one in particular: CHILL (Cisco Hyper-Innovation Living Labs). CHILL is helping Cisco re-define how ideas come to fruition. CHILL takes a vertical and creates an environment where a handful of Cisco’s biggest (non-competing) customers come […]
Part 2: The Ski Centre Queues and the Service Provider Internet of Things Opportunity
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Last week, in Part 1, I blogged about the bizarre association of queues at my local ski centre and unreliable access to cloud payment services. Being located in an...
Hey Mobile Operators: “It’s Time to Network Like the Big Guys, Innovate Like a Startup”
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Here we go, Mobile World Congress is fast approaching with about 100,000 attendees descending on Barcelona next week. The big focus this year is said to be around 5G, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and virtualization. So on those themes Cisco recently hosted a Cisco Knowledge Network Session with Heavy Reading’s Senior Analyst Gabriel Brown on Virtualized Packet […]
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