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November 13, 2014

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Cisco SPotlight Series – The Year Ahead in Mobility

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To address many questions about mobility, I am delighted to share with you our point-of-view through our “Cisco SPotlight Series,” an ongoing course of videos in which we answer questions and provide commentary on many hot topics in the service provider industry. In this latest video, I reveal what mobile operators and their customers, including […]

November 10, 2014

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Developing Products and Solutions in the 21st Century

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On November 3rd, 2014 at the Software Defined Network-Multiprotocol label Switching SDN-MPLS (Software Defined Networking-Multiprotocol Label Switching) Conference in Washington D.C: I moderated a stellar panel titled, “Developing Products...

October 21, 2014

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SP Network Transformation at the Cisco Live Cancun World of Solutions

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By Igor Dayen, Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing   The excitement starts on November 3rd in Cancun, Mexico where Cisco is holding...

October 15, 2014

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Cisco Succeeded in Network Functions Virtualization System Trial

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I’ve had the opportunity this year to meet with mobile operator leaders from around the globe. Whether they are large or small, focused on consumer services or businesses, or engaged in video or mobility, their ambitions are much in line with our strategy: to help them monetize and optimize their networks, while accelerating their ability […]

October 13, 2014

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Learn How to Transform your Network with Cisco Innovations at MEF GEN14!!

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By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing   Cisco is a sponsor of a new show this year, the Metro Ethernet Forum Global Ethernet Network 2014 show or “MEF GEN 14” to be held on November 17-20th, at the Gaylord National in Washington, DC. The event promises to bring together leading industry […]

October 13, 2014

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Cox Communications and Cisco Jointly Present on Innovations in Network Monetization and Optimization

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Project Illustrates How Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Work in Concert to Enhance How Networks are Designed, Operated, and Monetized Last week, I blogged about some...

Transform Service Provider Architectures to Support Virtualized Managed Business Services

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By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, SP Product and Solutions Marketing Cisco estimates over 50 billion new devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020.  To support the Internet of Everything, service providers must undergo an infrastructure transformation.  The network needs to become more open, programmable, automated, adaptive, and agile.  To guide this transformation, the […]

Broad Industry Support Taking Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to Next Level

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Cisco will Leverage OPNFV Efforts in Evolved Services Platform (ESP) Development Most people following industry trends are aware of the ETSI Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specification Group, which was formed in 2012 and kicked off its first set of specifications in October 2013. These documents are commonly used references in the growing movement to […]

Cox Communication Automates Virtualized Services with Cisco Evolved Services Platform

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There is a video available on YouTube describing a collaborative project with Cox Communications on virtualized residential services.  Dave Ward, Senior VP and CTO at Cisco Systems, is joined by Jeff Finklestein, Executive Director of Architecture at Cox Communications, and Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco. They discuss, in the context of Cisco’s Evolved Services […]