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MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017: Where The Rubber Meets The Road

4 min read

Industry experts, operators and vendors present real use cases and technology demos to demonstrate what works, and what does not, for real deployments in live networks.

February 25, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

WAN Automation–Not Just Another New Release, but a Game Changer

2 min read

Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) is enabling real-time network planning and the latest release, WAE 7.0 is now available.

February 2, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Automate and Simplify Your Operations – Cisco NSO Leads the Way

3 min read

Change is never easy. And network management teams are facing unprecedented change as Service Providers are under pressure from their enterprise customers to deliver and support more agile service offerings. New technology innovations like programmable networks and network functions virtualization (NFV) can give service providers the operational agility and increased scalability needed to meet these […]

January 20, 2017

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

OpenConfig on Cisco Platforms

3 min read

With a lot of buzz around supporting vendor-neutral data models at the device layer, it's a good time to discuss how Cisco is supporting open models, and OpenConfig models.

December 13, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Boring is the New Awesome

2 min read

The core principle of model-driven telemetry is super simple:  as much usable data out of the network as fast as possible.  The implementation is also pretty subtle:  a push mechanism, data models, open-source encodings.  In fact, it’s all so simple and subtle that some folks look under the hood and say, “so what?”   To that, […]

November 30, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Oh, How Far We’ve Come in Building Cloud-Scale Networking

3 min read

It’s been a year since I wrote this blog detailing our software innovations aimed at helping Service Providers address the ever-increasing challenges imposed by digitization. IOS XR for cloud-scale networking has really taken flight since then and I am proud to share with you some highlights from the journey thus far. Our strategy is essentially […]