network optimization

November 9, 2021

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Routed Optical Networking – It’s About the Architecture

8 min read

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

Video Surge Forces Telcos to Reimagine the Digital Experience

2 min read

Service providers face challenges on multiple fronts: ever increasing bandwidth demands, costs related to the move to 5G, more mobile connections, more mobile services, and more video. Cisco Ultra Traffic Optimization effectively relieves network congestion and provides a consistent experience to customers.

What Do IT Services and a Mission to Mars Have in Common?

2 min read

IT services actually has a lot in common with launching a successful mission to Mars: commitment to a bold vision and thousands of engineers working tirelessly to make it real.

December 14, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco Celebrates Wins at Telecom Asia Awards

2 min read

Cisco awarded the NFV Innovation and the Network Optimization Innovation of the Year at Telecom Asia’s 10th Annual Readers’ Choice & Innovation Awards

February 3, 2016

DATA CENTER

The Most Boring Service We offer … And how to bring down a data center in one easy snip!

2 min read

I do enjoy the (sometimes irreverent!) perspectives of some articles on data center in the UK publication “The Register“, and the story of how a data center change went wrong made me laugh, cringe and cry at the same time – the change being when an electrician cut the wrong wire and brought down a […]

September 1, 2015

NETWORKING

Increase Your Network Operations IQ

4 min read

This is the time of year when summer vacations end and students head back to the classroom. For those of us who have school-age children like me, it’s important that we know that their academic environment provides access to tools and information that will ensure successful learning. Knowledge of our children’s academic resources gives us […]

December 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco Keynote – End-to-End Optimization for Today’s Modern Datacenters

1 min read

Have a bit of free time this Wednesday morning? If so please feel free to sit in on a Cisco keynote delivered by Mark Balch, Director of Cisco UCS Product...

June 20, 2013

NETWORKING

Steps to Optimizing Your Network- Change Management & Network Management Strategies

3 min read

Having completed all of the previous strategy elements, you are ready to deploy.  Is that all there is to it? Not quite.  In this post, I’ll highlight strategies you can use for a smooth post-deployment. Change Management In one of my past experiences, deployment of our branch routers went off without a hitch and we […]

BYOD Spells Opportunity for Service Providers

2 min read

There’s no doubt that BYOD—“bring your own device”—is a huge and growing phenomenon throughout the world. Recent research by the Cisco® Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) looked at BYOD and its economic impact in six countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, China, India, and Brazil. In these countries alone, the number of BYOD devices […]