A Hybrid Cloud Solution to Improve Service Provider Revenue

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Media and Telecom service providers serve millions of customers, and it is a challenge to monitor and assure that customers have a satisfactory experience with the services. Service providers incur high operation costs through customer support and truck rolls. Reactive customer support often causes customer dissatisfaction resulting in...

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Transforming Enterprise Applications with 25G Ethernet SMF

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Bandwidth Drivers for 25G Bandwidth requirements in today’s Enterprise networks are now being driven by dramatic increases in video conferencing by such systems as Cisco’s Telepresence and other real-time applications such as Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality. These are taxing the limits of traditional 10G infrastructure....

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Cisco Complete Visual Network Index (VNI) Forecast and what it means for Service Providers in Asia Pacific

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This quarter, I’m excited to announce we released our annual Cisco Complete Visual Network Index (VNI) Forecast, which covers global, regional, and country-level projections and trends associated with fixed and mobile networks. It’s a must-read for every Asia Pacific service provider seeking to optimize network investments and performance....

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How Stealthwatch Cloud protects against the most critical Kubernetes vulnerability to-date, CVE-2018-1002105

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The increasing popularity of traditional cloud computing technologies such as server-less, on-demand compute and containerized environments has made technologies like Kubernetes part of our daily vernacular as it relates to running our applications and workloads. Kubernetes solves many of the problems with managing containers at-scale. Automation, orchestration, elasticity...

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Planning a Cloud Communications Migration: Navigating IT Priorities & LAN/WAN Management

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In this post, we take on another common challenge in migrating business communications to the cloud – the increased demands on IP access connectivity – both from a technical and commercial perspective. From a technical standpoint, hosted voice and video communications are some of the most sensitive traffic...

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Integrating Warehouses and Distribution Centers into the Enterprise Network

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We’re witnessing digital transformation all around us, and it’s driving fierce competition, new challenges, and compelling opportunities in every industry. We talked about some of the ways business are using the Internet of Things (IoT) to extend operations beyond traditional carpeted spaces inside the office and out to...

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Simplify Your Communications Migration Options: Private & Public Cloud Solutions

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In this post, we tackle another common challenge in migration planning – the decision to deploy sites and users on either multi-tenant or “public” cloud solutions versus dedicated, virtualized systems in “private” cloud solutions. In the communications industry, PBX vendors and service providers tend to promote the specific...

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Automating Your Network Operations, Part 2 – Data Models

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Keeping your IT infrastructure operational Before I get into data models, I want to take a slight diversion to incorporate some of the feedback that I received from the first blog. It was pointed out that my use of the ios_config module was “naïve.” I contend that it...

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Cisco Threat Response with Email Security Integration: Harmonizing Your Security Products

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Those of us who have been in security for more than 20 years are very familiar with the assertion that security is a process. For me, security has always been a process like a melody that ties in all other parts of the song.  Staying on this musical...

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