Learn how to apply SDN, NFV, and Open APIs to drive positive business outcomes for Service Providers by visiting any of the following pages:
http://www.cisco.com/go/sp
http://www.cisco.com/go/epn
http://www.cisco.com/go/esp
Learn how Cisco helps lower the architectural, cost, and deployment barriers to small cell deployments in enterprises of every size.
To learn more, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/smallcell and or Tweet us @CiscoSP360 for questions and comments.
This presentation explains the importance of SD-WAN technology as part of the Enterprise digital transformation strategy. It goes over the first wave of SD-WAN in a single vendor deployment, with Do-it-yourself (DIY) as the preferred model. Then continues with the importance of orchestration in the second wave of SD-WAN deployments in a multi-vendor ecosystem, turning to SD-WAN Managed Services as the preferred model. It ends up with some examples of use cases and the Verizon customer case. More information on Ericsson Dynamic orchestration - http://m.eric.sn/6rsZ30psKLu
Aryaka is an industry leader for Managed SD-WAN, delivered as-a-Service! With a global private backbone and patented software stack, we deliver services to more than 850+ global enterprises.
To learn more, visit us at www.aryaka.com or write to me at nitish.khanna@aryaka.com
Modern Network Compliance: The Journey of a CustomerItential
This webinar slideshow showcases real-world examples of how Itential users achieved network compliance. Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Rich Martin review why configuration compliance is a requirement to achieve network security, reliability, and performance goals as well as show these principles in action with real-world customer examples and results.
Transformation through Innovation: A Strategy for Service Provider SuccessCisco Service Provider
Service providers seek technology partners that can transform their businesses, helping them to move faster, with more security, greater flexibility, and less risk. Cisco offers a comprehensive strategy that creates an environment for services providers to advance innovation while enhancing profitability.
The market is crowded with SD-WAN providers—from pure-play startups to more established infrastructure and WAN specialists. With so many vendors, each offering different SD-WAN features and functions, how do you find the solution that's right for your organization?
Before you engage with SD-WAN providers or assemble your shortlist, learn how to choose the right solution for your organization and evaluate the four critical factors of SD-WAN: architecture, performance, security, and provisioning/management.
Learn more: https://rvbd.ly/2vmZoNW
Optimizing business travel: We have the math for thatCisco Canada
Let’s face it, business travel isn’t going away but in our current economic climate with currency disparities we all need to do our part to manage expenses. Determining the right blend of in-person meetings and ones that can be done virtually can be a challenge.
In this session, you will hear from an expert panel who will discuss::
• how to identify sub optimal travel expenses within your organization and replace them with more cost effective virtual meeting solutions that will not jeopardize employee productivity.
• how to calculate the proper in-person/virtual meeting ratio in order to see the Return on your Collaboration Investment properly
• determine when video is an appropriate alternative to travel
• roll out a successful travel program that incorporates virtual options
• your workforce to adopt this strategy
• measure its effectiveness
Operating costs decrease and agility increases, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/simplifying-operations/index.html?KeyCode=000947566
Learn how Cisco helps lower the architectural, cost, and deployment barriers to small cell deployments in enterprises of every size.
To learn more, please visit: www.cisco.com/go/smallcell and or Tweet us @CiscoSP360 for questions and comments.
This presentation explains the importance of SD-WAN technology as part of the Enterprise digital transformation strategy. It goes over the first wave of SD-WAN in a single vendor deployment, with Do-it-yourself (DIY) as the preferred model. Then continues with the importance of orchestration in the second wave of SD-WAN deployments in a multi-vendor ecosystem, turning to SD-WAN Managed Services as the preferred model. It ends up with some examples of use cases and the Verizon customer case. More information on Ericsson Dynamic orchestration - http://m.eric.sn/6rsZ30psKLu
Aryaka is an industry leader for Managed SD-WAN, delivered as-a-Service! With a global private backbone and patented software stack, we deliver services to more than 850+ global enterprises.
To learn more, visit us at www.aryaka.com or write to me at nitish.khanna@aryaka.com
Modern Network Compliance: The Journey of a CustomerItential
This webinar slideshow showcases real-world examples of how Itential users achieved network compliance. Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Rich Martin review why configuration compliance is a requirement to achieve network security, reliability, and performance goals as well as show these principles in action with real-world customer examples and results.
Transformation through Innovation: A Strategy for Service Provider SuccessCisco Service Provider
Service providers seek technology partners that can transform their businesses, helping them to move faster, with more security, greater flexibility, and less risk. Cisco offers a comprehensive strategy that creates an environment for services providers to advance innovation while enhancing profitability.
The market is crowded with SD-WAN providers—from pure-play startups to more established infrastructure and WAN specialists. With so many vendors, each offering different SD-WAN features and functions, how do you find the solution that's right for your organization?
Before you engage with SD-WAN providers or assemble your shortlist, learn how to choose the right solution for your organization and evaluate the four critical factors of SD-WAN: architecture, performance, security, and provisioning/management.
Learn more: https://rvbd.ly/2vmZoNW
Optimizing business travel: We have the math for thatCisco Canada
Let’s face it, business travel isn’t going away but in our current economic climate with currency disparities we all need to do our part to manage expenses. Determining the right blend of in-person meetings and ones that can be done virtually can be a challenge.
In this session, you will hear from an expert panel who will discuss::
• how to identify sub optimal travel expenses within your organization and replace them with more cost effective virtual meeting solutions that will not jeopardize employee productivity.
• how to calculate the proper in-person/virtual meeting ratio in order to see the Return on your Collaboration Investment properly
• determine when video is an appropriate alternative to travel
• roll out a successful travel program that incorporates virtual options
• your workforce to adopt this strategy
• measure its effectiveness
Operating costs decrease and agility increases, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/simplifying-operations/index.html?KeyCode=000947566
These slides--based on the webinar from leading IT analyst firm EMA and Cradlepoint--provide insights into new research on how enterprises are combining wireless WAN solutions and SD-WAN to drive success, including strategies for branch office continuity; how enterprises succeed with SD-WAN solutions; how to plan for the revolutionary potential of 5G networks.
Imagine if you could deploy highly secure new services at web speed on demand to customers and partners - complete with personalized capabilities. With this environment you’re creating innovative new services in minutes, not months, accelerating your time-to-revenue while reducing operational costs on an open platform. You have pre-packaged software service solutions that help you transform your business and the businesses of your customers. And you’re letting your customers use their existing customer premises equipment (CPE), to connect to virtual services from the cloud, reducing capital costs and business risk associated with rolling out new services.
It’s all possible with the Cisco Virtual Managed Services Solution based on the combination of the complementary Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) and the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP). This open infrastructure and software combined with industry leading service orchestration, software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies automate the delivery of business services tailored to your customers from the cloud.
This presentation covers the challenges with Enterprise WAN, discuss how SD-WAN promise to address the problem and lastly Nuage Network SD-WAN solution, Virtualized Network Services (VNS)..
2021 Predictions and Trends for the SD-WAN and Edge MarketQOS Networks
Looking at the new year with a refreshed understanding of what the IT team is looking for, what CIOs are being tasked with, and how to drive a relevant conversation can make the difference with your customer. Join us for our 2021 market insight and trends that can help target the conversation around the edge network and solutions that complement those needs!
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is no fad: enterprises of all sizes are taking advantage of the cost-savings, improved Quality of Services, and transport independence that SD-WAN offers.
To help you make an informed decision on whether or not SD-WAN is right for your enterprise, we compiled top SD-WAN trends as defined by leading networking analysts.
Radiant Communications is a boutique managed services provider that delivers SD-WAN networks, hosted data centres and VOIP solutions to businesses across Canada.
For over 20 years, Radiant has partnered with every telco in Canada and the USA giving us the broadest footprint for Internet & voice services in North America.
Unlike other large telcos, Radiant is able to design very flexible technology and vendor diverse solutions. Radiant also acts as a single point of contact to manage technical support and billing for the patchwork of different vendors throughout North America.
Our operational objective is to be seen as an extension of your IT team. We manage IT infrastructure so your internal IT team can focus on more strategic initiatives in support your business.
The workplace is fast evolving. The onset of Covid-19 rapidly accelerated the evolution of the workplace for enterprises in a manner that, in normal times, would almost be construed as disruptive.
Enterprise CIOs have adapted remarkably in getting large swaths of the employee workforce into remote working environments, while the traditional office spaces are largely empty. Employees have also adapted to working from their home environments, and others have moved outside of their home base to be closer to their families or work from cities that are less expensive. Now they are literally accessing corporate applications from anywhere & everywhere.
For CIOs this has given birth to the concept of the “Anywhere” worker.
Fernando Nunez's ANDICOM 2016 presentation discusses NFV and SDN and outlines use cases of vE-CPE and SD-WAN. He focuses on how combining these two use cases creates a comprehensive and powerful solution and describes the concept of Ensemble SmartWAN (SD-WAN 2.0).
Intelligence at the Edge: How SD-WAN can Enable a Smarter NetworkQOS Networks
SD-WAN isn't a new concept, nor is it a new technology. However, many companies are still learning how to make SD-WAN a part of their network strategy. QOS Networks is a managed network solution provider focused on helping global, dispersed enterprises achieve SD-WAN nirvana.
In this webinar we went through three real world examples of how customers have leveraged SD WAN and VeloCloud to reduce overall telecom and WAN expenses.
Internet of Everything: The CIO's Point of ViewCisco Canada
Rebecca Jacoby, SVP and CIO Cisco, as she takes you on a journey through the possibilities of the Internet of Everything. Rebecca will share a CIO's perspective of the technology transformations enabling this new era. She will offer insights into the critical elements needed to effectively build a foundation to meet today's IT imperative: Unlock the business value available through the intelligent connections among people, process, data and things.
NetScaler SD-WAN combina la selección de rutas de paquete en tiempo real, optimización WAN, firewall, enrutamiento y análisis de aplicaciones en una sola solución completa. Tanto si accede a aplicaciones SaaS como a escritorios virtualizados o centros de datos tradicionales.
Webinar: Simplifying Cloud Connectivity for Your ClientsGlobal Capacity
As an Application Service Provider, you face many unique challenges in connecting with your customers. In this webinar, Tom Sharkey, Sales Director and connectivity specialist at Global Capacity, outlines these challenges and shows how they can be overcome using the One Marketplace platform.
Cisco Monetization and Optimization Index (MOI) - Service Provider Cloud, Mob...Cisco Service Provider
Check out these Monetization and Optimization Index (MOI) infographics about cloud, mobility, and video economic value forecast for Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and overall global regions.
Learn more about the insights behind these statistics, including additional topic areas and region specific information here: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/sol/sp/moi/index.html?sid=000443169
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
Cisco's Nick Fielibert's session presentation from ANGA 2014 in Cologne, Germany. Access all Cisco at ANGA assets (blogs, photos, event details, etc.) here: http://cs.co/fbet
These slides--based on the webinar from leading IT analyst firm EMA and Cradlepoint--provide insights into new research on how enterprises are combining wireless WAN solutions and SD-WAN to drive success, including strategies for branch office continuity; how enterprises succeed with SD-WAN solutions; how to plan for the revolutionary potential of 5G networks.
Imagine if you could deploy highly secure new services at web speed on demand to customers and partners - complete with personalized capabilities. With this environment you’re creating innovative new services in minutes, not months, accelerating your time-to-revenue while reducing operational costs on an open platform. You have pre-packaged software service solutions that help you transform your business and the businesses of your customers. And you’re letting your customers use their existing customer premises equipment (CPE), to connect to virtual services from the cloud, reducing capital costs and business risk associated with rolling out new services.
It’s all possible with the Cisco Virtual Managed Services Solution based on the combination of the complementary Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) and the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP). This open infrastructure and software combined with industry leading service orchestration, software-defined networking (SDN), and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies automate the delivery of business services tailored to your customers from the cloud.
This presentation covers the challenges with Enterprise WAN, discuss how SD-WAN promise to address the problem and lastly Nuage Network SD-WAN solution, Virtualized Network Services (VNS)..
2021 Predictions and Trends for the SD-WAN and Edge MarketQOS Networks
Looking at the new year with a refreshed understanding of what the IT team is looking for, what CIOs are being tasked with, and how to drive a relevant conversation can make the difference with your customer. Join us for our 2021 market insight and trends that can help target the conversation around the edge network and solutions that complement those needs!
Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is no fad: enterprises of all sizes are taking advantage of the cost-savings, improved Quality of Services, and transport independence that SD-WAN offers.
To help you make an informed decision on whether or not SD-WAN is right for your enterprise, we compiled top SD-WAN trends as defined by leading networking analysts.
Radiant Communications is a boutique managed services provider that delivers SD-WAN networks, hosted data centres and VOIP solutions to businesses across Canada.
For over 20 years, Radiant has partnered with every telco in Canada and the USA giving us the broadest footprint for Internet & voice services in North America.
Unlike other large telcos, Radiant is able to design very flexible technology and vendor diverse solutions. Radiant also acts as a single point of contact to manage technical support and billing for the patchwork of different vendors throughout North America.
Our operational objective is to be seen as an extension of your IT team. We manage IT infrastructure so your internal IT team can focus on more strategic initiatives in support your business.
The workplace is fast evolving. The onset of Covid-19 rapidly accelerated the evolution of the workplace for enterprises in a manner that, in normal times, would almost be construed as disruptive.
Enterprise CIOs have adapted remarkably in getting large swaths of the employee workforce into remote working environments, while the traditional office spaces are largely empty. Employees have also adapted to working from their home environments, and others have moved outside of their home base to be closer to their families or work from cities that are less expensive. Now they are literally accessing corporate applications from anywhere & everywhere.
For CIOs this has given birth to the concept of the “Anywhere” worker.
Fernando Nunez's ANDICOM 2016 presentation discusses NFV and SDN and outlines use cases of vE-CPE and SD-WAN. He focuses on how combining these two use cases creates a comprehensive and powerful solution and describes the concept of Ensemble SmartWAN (SD-WAN 2.0).
Intelligence at the Edge: How SD-WAN can Enable a Smarter NetworkQOS Networks
SD-WAN isn't a new concept, nor is it a new technology. However, many companies are still learning how to make SD-WAN a part of their network strategy. QOS Networks is a managed network solution provider focused on helping global, dispersed enterprises achieve SD-WAN nirvana.
In this webinar we went through three real world examples of how customers have leveraged SD WAN and VeloCloud to reduce overall telecom and WAN expenses.
Internet of Everything: The CIO's Point of ViewCisco Canada
Rebecca Jacoby, SVP and CIO Cisco, as she takes you on a journey through the possibilities of the Internet of Everything. Rebecca will share a CIO's perspective of the technology transformations enabling this new era. She will offer insights into the critical elements needed to effectively build a foundation to meet today's IT imperative: Unlock the business value available through the intelligent connections among people, process, data and things.
NetScaler SD-WAN combina la selección de rutas de paquete en tiempo real, optimización WAN, firewall, enrutamiento y análisis de aplicaciones en una sola solución completa. Tanto si accede a aplicaciones SaaS como a escritorios virtualizados o centros de datos tradicionales.
Webinar: Simplifying Cloud Connectivity for Your ClientsGlobal Capacity
As an Application Service Provider, you face many unique challenges in connecting with your customers. In this webinar, Tom Sharkey, Sales Director and connectivity specialist at Global Capacity, outlines these challenges and shows how they can be overcome using the One Marketplace platform.
Cisco Monetization and Optimization Index (MOI) - Service Provider Cloud, Mob...Cisco Service Provider
Check out these Monetization and Optimization Index (MOI) infographics about cloud, mobility, and video economic value forecast for Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa, North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and overall global regions.
Learn more about the insights behind these statistics, including additional topic areas and region specific information here: http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/assets/sol/sp/moi/index.html?sid=000443169
CloudVPN – A Programmable Platform for Service Providers to evolve their VPN offerings with Cloud integration with a lower TCO (agility, automation, simplification) and low marginal cost achieved through Virtualization and SDN enablement.
Cisco's Nick Fielibert's session presentation from ANGA 2014 in Cologne, Germany. Access all Cisco at ANGA assets (blogs, photos, event details, etc.) here: http://cs.co/fbet
Service creation is simpler and delivery is faster, allowing you to react quickly to new market opportunities.
http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/sp04/entering-new-markets/index.html?KeyCode=000947734
Cisco Service Provider Vision and Strategy: Business Transforming Through Inn...Cisco Service Provider
This Presentation will go over: Business Transforming Through Innovation
What is Cloud?
Technology is Enabling Innovation and Disruption
Transforming Our Business to Guarantee Yours
Building New Markets with SDN, NFV & Cloud
SDN and NFV Value in Business Services - A Presentation By Cox CommunicationsCisco Service Provider
Joint presentation on behalf of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) between Cox Communications (Mazen Khaddem) and Cisco Systems (Dr. Loukas Paraschis). Presentation covers different SDN categories, NFV examples in business services, and use cases for WAN SDN.
Learn more about how today's service provider's networks are built to deliver yesterday's services and how the Next generation service require a new approach with our Evolved Programmable Network's offerings will enable business transformation for new service deliveries.
What if the orchestrator could also automate the deployment and configuration of an accompanying service assurance solution, tailored to the specific services being delivered? This is now becoming a reality using a concept called Orchestrated Assurance.
About the European Advanced Networking Test Center
Vendor independent network quality assurance since 1991
Unique technical expertise of network design and testing in latest technology areas
20-year testing experience matches highest quality standards.
Cisco’s NSO is an orchestration tool
Enabled by Tail-f division of Cisco
Interfaced with two layers
Northbound programmable interface to service tools (CLI, JSON-
RPC, REST...)
Southbound network elements interface (NETCONF, SNMP...)
EANTC verification areas of Cisco’s NSO
Service enablement, restoration, verification
Configuration push, update, repair and error mitigation Multi-vendor capabilities
Introducing Application Engineered Routing Powered by Segment RoutingCisco Service Provider
Application-Engineered Routing
Application programs the Segment Routing network to deliver end-to-end per-flow policy from DC through WAN to end-user
Adding value at your own pace
– Leveraging the existing MPLS dataplane without any change. SW upgrade only.
– Simplification, Automated 50msec FRR, per-domain and then end-to-end policies
Economic gains
– Improved service richness and velocity
– Optimized CAPEX and OPEX thanks to the simplicity of the SR architecture
Segment Routing deployments in CY15 in all the markets – WEB, SP, Entreprise
Strong partnership with lead operator group Commitment to standardization and multi-vendor support

Sky saw an opportunity to create true innovation in the TV advertising industry. Co-operation with Cisco made the vision reality.
TV advertisers want to aim right ads at right homes
Ad platform provides viewer targeting with
unprecedented accuracy.
TV’s ad model is limiting: the same ads served to all viewers at the same time. To update the model—and boost revenue—Sky and Cisco built Sky AdSmart, which serves TV ads to households based on unique pro!les.
Primend Praktiline Konverents - Rakenduse keskne IT infrastruktuur / Cisco Ap...Primend
Andmekeskuse virtualiseerumise ja konvergeerumise tulemusena on tekkinud keskkond, kus seadmete senised haldamise lahendused ja protseduurid ei ole piisavad käideldavuse ja konfidentsiaalsuse tagamiseks. Uue põlvkonna halduslahendused peavad hakkama saama salvestuse, arvutuse ja rakenduste mobiilsusega.
CISCO’s Cloud Journey (Keynote at Cloud Symposium) Marcus McEwen
The following slide show details a high level analysis of Cisco’s view of The Cloud. This presentation was given by Kanjal Trevidi from Cisco Cloud and Managed Services Business Development at the Equivoice Cloud Symposium
CISCO: Accelerating Small Cell Deployments in the EnterpriseSmall Cell Forum
Mark Grayson, distinguished engineer at CISCO presented on the Small Cell Forum stand at MWC on accelerating small cell deployments within the enterprise zone.
Cisco at DevTO - Tomorrow Starts Now for Sheridan College Students (July 28, ...Marc Lijour, OCT, BSc, MBA
Sheridan students are involved in hackathons, working with the Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, and they learn actively with the latest video and collaboration techniques. Their students are career-ready, some of them launching their own business while in school. This presentation will explore the main technology infrastructure based on Cisco which makes all that possible, as well as the involvement of Sheridan in leading programs such as VROC and Connected North. Developers won’t want to miss hearing about cool technologies like CMX, Jabber Guest, and other technologies available on DevNet.
Sheridan students are involved in hackathons, working with the Toronto 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, and they learn actively with the latest video and collaboration techniques. Their students are career-ready, some of them launching their own business while in school. This presentation will explore the main technology infrastructure based on Cisco which makes all that possible, as well as the involvement of Sheridan in leading programs such as VROC and Connected North. Developers won’t want to miss hearing about cool technologies like CMX, Jabber Guest, and other technologies available on DevNet.
Cisco Powered: Your Trusted Source for Cloud and Managed ServicesCisco Canada
Session: Cisco Powered: Your Trusted Source for Cloud and Managed Services
Presenter: Mohammad Abdel, Sr. Manager, Global Cloud GTM
Date: October 6, 2015
A New Approach to Continuous Monitoring in the CloudNETSCOUT
In this #CLUS 2019 session, you will learn how NETSCOUT’s smart data platform enables continuous monitoring in hybrid cloud environments to minimize risk and accelerate customer migration to the Cloud. You will review real-life examples of how businesses optimized their Cloud migration gaining visibility and deep insights, in both physical and virtual worlds, to maintain continuity and security of the services throughout the migration process.
Enterprise Application to Infrastructure Integration -- SDN AppsCisco DevNet
We've all heard about SDN and how SDN provides flexible networks to solve networks operation challenges. With respect to SDN Applications, the most obvious conversation is about network applications and services. But today we will discuss how we at Cisco are addressing business challenges and impact business outcomes directly by connecting two disparate worlds of Enterprise applications (EA) and Networking stack using Cisco Integration Platform (CIP).
Similar to Making Networks More Agile, Open, and Application Centric - Cisco Insights (20)
Cisco will be at OFC, the world’s premier optical event again showcasing our industry leading Packet Optical Convergence innovations and solutions. We encourage you to be part of the experience by visiting our Exposition booth (#3109) where you can interact with Cisco demonstrations, technical experts and Cisco Service Provider executives.
[Infographic] Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI): Mobile-Connected Devices p...Cisco Service Provider
This Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast infographic provides some of the global and regional highlights from the updated study that covers forecast for 2014 to 2019.
For more information, please tweet us @CiscoVNI and follow our hashtag #VNI, and visit: http://cs.co/vnilpss.
[Infographic] Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI): Mobile Users GrowthCisco Service Provider
This Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast infographic provides some of the global and regional highlights from the updated study that covers forecast for 2014 to 2019.
For more information, please tweet us @CiscoVNI and follow our hashtag #VNI, and visit: http://cs.co/vnilpss.
Operator Drives Bandwidth Efficiency and Optimizes Satellite Link PerformanceCisco Service Provider
Providing network connectivity and services, such as data, voice, live TV, high- definition (HD) on-demand video, and mobile services, EMC caters to customers with operations in some of the most remote corners of the planet. Managing satellite bandwidth requires sophisticated monitoring tools to ensure consistent performance of voice, video and data during events, such as rain, that can affect the quality. This telecommunications leader prides itself on delivering carrier-class services through its global mobility platform, using its hybrid satellite and terrestrial broadband network.
The EMC network features fully meshed, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) enabled and interconnected teleports in the United States, Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. With EMC’s proprietary tools, it can manage and optimize every megabyte delivered. Its customer-facing tools further maximize every bit delivered over each customer’s WAN and LAN.
Application Engineered Routing Segment Routing and the Cisco WAN Automation ...Cisco Service Provider
The Cisco® Application Engineered Routing solution provides end-to-end control over how the network infrastructure transports applications. In the past, dedicated clusters of servers would deliver specific applications, but the number and diversity of applications continue to increase as the infrastructure becomes more converged.
Traffic patterns are dynamically changing and new applications come with specific transport requirements. Combining Segment Routing (SR) with the Cisco WAN Automation Engine (WAE) provides the necessary intelligence to optimize network resources and make informed decisions dynamically, helping to ensure a consistent, high-quality customer experience.
This white paper describes SR and the Cisco WAE and highlights how they work together to deliver an intelligent, dynamic, highly optimized network.
Research Highlight: Independent Validation of Cisco Service Provider Virtuali...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers want to know how they can build and run programmable, intelligent, responsive, efficient, flexible, and highly secure yet open networks with a high degree of automation. They want to be able to configure and activate new services quickly, utilize emerging cloud capabilities, and meet customer needs. Nimble, smart innovators in the global communications and networking industry are working on the answers and coming up with solutions every day. But providers need to know if these next-generation technologies can already meet their requirements today
In the world of service providers and networks, the demand for new and better services continue to grow, while the networks must expand and quickly adapt to these demands. One way that operators are evolving their network is to adopt some of the latest technologies like NFV (network functions virtualization). Infonetics recently found that 35 percent of the worldwide telecom carriers they surveyed are planning to deploy NFV in 2015. They are doing this because they believe that NFV and its SDN (software-defined networking) architecture will deliver benefits in service agility and new revenue, operational efficiencies and capex savings. Finding new ways to build revenue paths out of the network is critical for operators today as they innovate to find new sources of revenues.
Operators have been looking to Policy to help them find new ways to find value in their network. Specifically, they need a policy platform which can help them quickly adapt to build new services and even new networks for other operators or enterprises. We are now announcing the availability of Cisco Policy Suite version 7.5 for download. With it, operators will benefit from NFV-based policy enforcement and new access selection technologies. These new capabilities are enabling service providers to not only use policy software to open new services and markets, but they are also providing policy to the handset to ensure the best access method for the end user.
Deploy New Technologies Quickly with Cisco Managed Services for Service Provi...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers’ businesses and operations are undergoing major changes. New initiatives, like IP convergence, cloud, software-defined networks and network virtualization, are driving new business models. These initiatives are also creating opportunities for new revenue streams and greater efficiencies. Speed, agility and flexibility are required for fast access to IT and new applications. Now is the time to invest effort and resources in figuring out how to make this opportunity work for you. You have a chance to disrupt rather than being disrupted.
Segment routing is a network technology focused on addressing the pain points of existing IP and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks in terms of simplicity, scale, and ease of operation. It’s a foundation for application engineered routing because it prepares the networks for new business models where applications can direct network behavior.
Segment routing seeks the right balance between distributed intelligence and centralized optimization and programming. It was built for the software-defined networking (SDN) era.
Segment routing enables enhanced packet forwarding behavior. It enables a network to transport unicast packets through a specific forwarding path, other than the normal shortest path that a packet usually takes. This capability benefits many use cases, and you can build those specific paths based on application requirements.
Segment routing uses the source routing paradigm. A node, usually a router but it can also be a switch, a trusted server, or a virtual forwarder running on a hypervisor, steers a packet through an ordered list of instructions, called segments. A segment can represent any instruction, topological or service-based. A segment can have a local semantic to a segment-routing node or global within a segment-routing network. Segment routing allows you to enforce a flow through any topological path and service chain while maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress node to the segment-routing network. To be aligned with modern IP networks, segment routing supports equal-cost multipath (ECMP) by design, and the forwarding within a segment-routing network uses all possible paths, when desired.
Cisco Virtual Managed Services: Transform Your Business with Cloud-based Inn...Cisco Service Provider
Service providers face big challenges along with tremendous opportunities. Maturing technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), cloud, and open-source software are enabling exciting business innovations and market disruptions. To keep up with the pace of change today, you need to rethink how to engage with your customers to meet their business needs. At Cisco, we have the right approach to harness the transformative power of the cloud, SDN, and NFV. The Cisco® Virtual Managed Services Solution portfolio provides a rich set of secure cloud-based network services with prepackaged software capabilities over any access technology. The Cisco Virtual Managed Services solution makes it easy for you to deploy, manage, and sell new premium cloud managed services while reducing current operating expenditures (OpEx) and accelerating time to revenue.
Cisco cBR-8 Evolved CCAP: Deliver Scalable Network and Service Growth at a Lo...Cisco Service Provider
An explosion of new over-the-top (OTT) video services and consumer devices is placing huge demand on cable access networks. To compete for new customers and retain the loyalty of existing ones, multiple system operators (MSOs) will need to expand capacity substantially, rolling out new services and gigabit tiers.
As they strive to meet insatiable market demand and stay competitive, MSOs are looking at significant access network capital expenditures (CapEx) increases over the next 5 years - and steadily rising operating expenses (OpEx) due to higher power costs and a larger network footprint. But current integrated Cisco® Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) solutions are limited to supporting only 24 to 32 channels per service group, and they are not designed to support DOCSIS® 3.1 at scale. Using these platforms, MSOs would need to significantly increase CapEx spend in order to compete with gigabit billboard rates and keep pace with growth.
Alternatively, MSOs can use the Cisco cBR-8 Converged Broadband Router, a full-spectrum CCAP-compliant platform that is designed to support DOCSIS 3.1. The Cisco cBR-8 enables cable operators to offer multigigabit broadband and Internet of Everything (IoE) services, and provide a path to virtualization. It empowers MSOs to scale economically to deliver more capacity and best-in-class services with much lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
This white paper examines the consumer trends affecting cable access networks and the projections for how the network and services will evolve in the coming years. It provides a long-term economic analysis of an evolved access network using the Cisco cBR-8, compared with competitive Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) platforms. And it demonstrates how MSOs will be able to meet capacity and service demands over the next several years at a 40-percent savings in hardware, space, and power costs.
Application Engineered Routing Enables Applications and Network Infrastructur...Cisco Service Provider
What if applications could communicate their requirements - such as bandwidth, latency, and jitter - and get the network infrastructure to dynamically provide them? Application Engineered Routing gives you this level of agility. The Cisco® Application Engineered Routing solution provides end-to-end control over how your network infrastructure transports your applications. Tying specific application requirements to a deeper understanding of the network infrastructure state gives you the power to optimize your network resources and make informed decisions dynamically, helping to ensure a consistent, high-quality customer experience.
Transformation Through Innovation: A Strategy For Service Provider SuccessCisco Service Provider
Service providers can capitalize on $1.7 trillion in incremental value over the next 10 years through the Internet of Everything (IoE). The opportunity for service providers is to create value for consumers and enterprises. However, operational complexity can stifle the service provider’s ability to reduce costs and become more agile when bringing new capabilities to market. Today most new applications take months to roll out. Upgrades and migrations often take just as long. Service providers seek technology partners that can transform their businesses, helping them to move faster, with more security, greater flexibility, and less risk.
Cisco offers a comprehensive strategy that creates an environment for services providers to advance innovation while enhancing profitability. Cisco helps to make service provider transformation possible in three ways:
● Transform the experience: We deliver capabilities that help service providers develop new experiences for consumers and businesses, as people, things, processes, and data are connected in the IoE. For example:
◦ Fraud protection applications connected to locations through mobile phones
◦ Sensors connecting a basketball with a IP television services
◦ Healthcare applications tracking vital signs from wearables
◦ Public safety services that synchronize ambulances with traffic lights
● Transform the business: We engage with service providers to create new business models and new revenue streams, estimated to be $1.7 trillion over the next decade. Cisco delivers solutions that provide the agility to bring services to market faster.
● Transform the architecture: With the Cisco® Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) and Evolved Services Platform (ESP), we use both physical and virtual technology that offers open, flexible programmability. The network becomes the services platform using the latest automation, orchestration, and virtualization capabilities. Cisco allows many solutions to work together as one open architecture to create a platform of possibilities.
Extending the connectivity of clouds beyond the hybrid cloud to the Intercloud promises unparalleled opportunities for global business acceleration, monetization, growth, and services scalability. In order to realize the opportunities, Cisco is leading the development of an Intercloud ecosystem in collaboration with technology providers, cloud providers, ISVs, and developers. It's the right time to be Intercloud-ready.
[Infographic] Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI): Mobile traffic per end-use...Cisco Service Provider
This Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast infographic provides some of the global and regional highlights from the updated study that covers forecast for 2014 to 2019.
For more information, please tweet us @CiscoVNI and follow our hashtag #VNI.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.