SON

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.

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

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.

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.

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 […]

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...

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 […]

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 […]

By Shailesh Shukla, VP & GM, SWAG Global, Cisco Overview The surging demand for data, and the continued growth of Smartphones consumption forces mobile service providers expand their network in order to provide Quality of Experience and Quality of service to their customers. As a result their network becomes more complex and difficult to manage. […]