Service Provider

Open vRAN Update: NETCONF/YANG Comes to 5G RAN!

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One of the key principles of the Open vRAN ecosystem that Cisco and its ecosystem partners announced earlier this year, is to establish open, standard interfaces and management for vRAN. Recently the xRAN Forum has defined the use of IETF’s NETCONF/YANG standard for programmatically configuring and managing its lower layer split RAN architecture.

Cisco Named Optical Network Market Leader by IHS

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Cisco continues to be on the leading edge, driving optical industry innovation for our customers. Today, I’m pleased to announce that we have achieved the ranking of Optical Network Market Leader in the 2018 IHS Market Technology Vendor Scorecard.

The Five Focus Areas for 5G Security Innovation and Thought Leadership

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As we move into the 5G era, service providers have to caution against new security threats and increasingly sophisticated attacks.

5G Networking: Good Things Come in Threes

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Cisco’s 3-stage realisation programme can help service providers reap the benefits of 5G networking, now and in the future.

Welcome Vijoy Pandey as CTO, Cisco Service Provider Business

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Please join me in welcoming Vijoy Pandey as our new Service Provider CTO. Vijoy comes to us from Google where he headed engineering for their Data Center, Cloud and WAN networks.

Network Services: Bringing it all Together

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A unified platform for enabling network services will be crucial to supporting the internet of things By 2021 there will be more than 3.3 billion mobile connected internet of things...

New Opportunities Through Seamless Connectivity

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Seamless cross-access convergence enables service providers to run their networks more efficiently, offering customers a better quality of experience and greater reliability.