Perspectives on the Future of Service Provider Networking: Distributed Data Centers and Edge Services

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The ongoing global pandemic, now approaching its third year, has profoundly illustrated the critical role of the internet in society, changing the way we work, live, play, and learn. This role will continue to expand as digital transformation becomes even more pervasive. However, connecting more users, devices, applications,...

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Perspectives on the Future of Service Provider Networking: Evolved Connectivity

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The digital transformation in this decade is demanding more from the network. Multi-cloud, edge, telework, 5G, and IoT are creating an evolved connectivity ecosystem characterized by highly distributed elements needing to communicate with one another in a complex, multi-domain, many-to-many fashion. The world of north-south, east-west traffic flows...

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Three Reasons to Prepare for Your Next Broadband Infrastructure Investment

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Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic proved the internet invaluable with so many of us working, shopping, educating our children, and accessing health care – all from home – we’re still faced with a digital divide between those who have access to broadband Internet and those who don’t....

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Private 5G Delivered on Your Terms

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Private 5G is a hot topic as enterprises seek industrial wireless IoT solutions to modernize their business for increased productivity and efficiency. In newly emerging cases, wired solutions are not enough, such as in sectors like hospitality where “protected buildings” limit running new cables. For manufacturing and other...

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How Cybersecurity Leads to Improved Sustainability

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After managing the sudden switch to remote work in 2020, organizations are making a more permanent transition into the flexible hybrid workforce. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found that cybersecurity attacks rose by 3-4 times from the transition to remote work in 2020. In addition, experts predict...

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O-RAN Plugfest 2021: Making 5G Adoption Cost-Effective for Brownfield Providers

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5G adoption is causing mobile networks to grow at unprecedented rates. This brings with it significant new business opportunities but can also increase the complexity and cost of deployment and operations. An intelligent, programmable network enables communication service providers to take advantage of the growth that 5G offers...

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Service Opportunities for Midsize/Small Service Providers Are Key to Competitive Differentiation

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Competitive intensity across the service provider landscape has increased significantly over the past few years. While most pronounced in the large tier 1 service provider segment, the level of competition has recently picked up in the midsize and small communication service provider market. The competitive landscape now includes...

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Cisco Silicon One Enables the Best Routers

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It’s not every day you get to work on products that continue to evolve so quickly that before you finish talking about one device the next generation comes out. However, with Cisco Silicon One™ that’s exactly what we’ve done.We recently announced our 19.2 Tbps P100 piece of routing...

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Redefining the Cost Models for APAC Broadband Operators

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In a market approaching 5.7 billion mobile subscriptions in 2021, broadband can sometimes feel to play second fiddle in Asia & Oceania (Omdia). However, 670 million broadband subscriptions are nothing to be sniffed at – especially in a region with hundreds of millions more underserved or unserved at...

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