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December 11, 2018

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Vodafone-Netherlands Ziggo takes RAN Automation to the Next Level of Excellence

Vodafone-Netherlands (Ziggo) announced that they are taking their RAN automation to the next level and are building the required capabilities toward automation in the 5G Era with the commercial implementation of Cisco SONFlex.

December 14, 2017

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Cisco Celebrates Wins at Telecom Asia Awards

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

October 10, 2017

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Vodafone Ireland Leverages Cisco C-SON for Machine Learning to Predict 3G Traffic Flows

Vodafone Ireland has teamed with Cisco to create the world’s first trial using machine learning algorithms in Cisco Centralized Self Optimizing Network (C-SON) to predict where 3G traffic will peak in the following hour.

Vodafone India Data Strong Network Enhanced with Cisco SON

We are pleased that Vodafone India has added Cisco Self Optimizing Network (SON) into their Data Strong Network™ adding to the existing intelligence of the Cisco Ultra Mobile Core.

Proving it with Vodafone UK

Self-Optimizing Networks (SON) is not a new term and it has been thrown around for some time within the industry. Distributed SON (D-SON) is now active in many service providers’ radio networks having first been standardized in 3GPP release 8 (2008). Distributed SON, however, runs at the very edge of the network, and therefore has […]

Autonomic Networking: Where Do We Go From Here?

It's great to be back at another Cisco Live event, this time in the great city of San Francisco.  This is the last day of the event, and if you...

Achieving New Wi-Fi Heights

When it comes to the mobile internet at Cisco, there has been a great deal of coverage lately around the need for and advances in small cells to...

February 23, 2014

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Small Cell Industry Firsts with Multimode and Small Cell SON

In June, I described how Cisco was closing the small cell loop with the rapid integration of both the Ubiquisys and Intucell teams into the Cisco family. Today I’m pleased to make three announcements that demonstrate the concrete results of all these bright minds coming together: Cisco has added LTE capability to our Universal Small […]

February 20, 2014

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Expanding the Quantum Software Suite

A year ago we introduced the Cisco Quantum Software suite based on an architectural construct of an automated, closed loop – linking network, analytics and policy – to help Mobile Operators better optimize and monetize their network investments.  We announced the network abstraction, analytics, policy and self-optimizing network (SON) platforms. At the Mobile World Congress […]