Service Provider
Cisco Spring ’14 Packet Optical Networking Conference (PONC) – The Secret Sauce
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By Leonard Luna, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Solutions Once again, network operators converged on the Dolce Hayes Mansion in San Jose last week (May 13-15) to collaborate with their colleagues and Cisco around the packet and optical convergence evolution. On behalf of Cisco’s engineering groups, marketing and events planning teams, we extend our […]
Have You Checked Out Elastic Access at Cisco Live San Francisco Yet?
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Written By Ram Haridasa, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco We talked about Elastic Access last week – how we’ve introduced new Carrier Ethernet innovations that will extend Cisco’s Evolved Programmable Network capabilities to the access with specific focus on automating the provisioning process and reducing operational costs for our carrier customers. It’s one thing to read […]
RDK in Action: ANGA COM and Beyond
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The RDK – the Reference Design Kit – already catapulting into the cable landscape, by way of cloud-capable set-tops and gateways – is a hefty source of industry discussion as we head into ANGA COM, in Cologne. As an active RDK Community member, we are already deeply involved with RDK launches, worldwide. We’re also poised […]
Deliver High Performance Cloud Services with the new ASR 1001-X
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At CiscoLive this week, I am proud to announce the launch of the new Aggregation Services Router, the ASR 1001-X. The ASR 1001-X is the latest addition to the ASR 1000 family of routers that packs 20Gbps forwarding capacity and 8G of Layer 3 Crypto throughput in a compact 1RU form factor! In my earlier […]
Cisco – Thales Win 2014 Coveted Global Telecom Business Innovations Award
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Written By Jim O’ Leary, Senior Mobile Solutions Marketing Manager What a great week to be in London last week, the weather was great with blue skies and warm weather. The main reason this week to be in London was to attend the annual Global Telecoms Business Summit and Innovations Awards, and what a great […]
Hitchhiker’s Guide for Service Providers at Cisco Live, San Francisco
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Written By Amrit Hanspal, Senior Manager, Service Provider Lead, Network OS Tech Group Cisco Live in San Francisco (next week!) offers a host of learning opportunities if you are part of a Service Provider, or a large Enterprise that offers services to internal groups. Let my blog be your guide to help you chart out […]
What’s New With Cisco’s Evolved Services Platform (ESP)? A Peek Inside the Service Provider’s Software …
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In February we announced the Evolved Services Platform (ESP) as part of our Service Provider Cisco Open Networking Environment. The ESP consists of a service broker (a storefront for SP applications), a catalog of virtual functions (components of the offerings) and an orchestration engine, which is essentially the factory the produces the applications themselves. One […]
Emerging Cloud Models: Community Cloud
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There is no disputing that both enterprises and service providers are embracing cloud. What’s different today is that not only are telcos cloud providers, but enterprises and governments are also becoming cloud providers through a community cloud model. A community cloud model is a collaborative effort where infrastructure is shared and jointly accessed by several […]
Standing out from the cloud: why agility is key in tomorrow’s TV
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Written by Nick Thexton, Vice President and CTO, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco With almost a quarter of our waking time spent watching TV, video consumption is on a definite rise. Rather than competing, different devices and platforms are proving to complement each other, collectively contributing to that growth. But our digital lives […]