Part 2 of the report: http://www.slideshare.net/CiscoSP360/special-report-what-is-signal-level-part-2
Read a blog post by the author covering his recent technical paper on signal leakage: http://cs.co/slsr
Part 1 of the Report: http://www.slideshare.net/CiscoSP360/report-what-is-signal-level-part-1
Read a blog post by the author covering his recent technical paper on signal leakage: http://cs.co/slsr
1) Cisco's 5G platform promises significant improvements in network performance including 10x increases in data rates, 20x reductions in latency, and 7.5x increases in cell site capacity.
2) 5G networks will need to support growing mobile traffic and new services enabled by technologies like IoT. They will also need to lower costs and support cloud platforms.
3) Cisco's 5G PowerX platform is a cloud-native, programmable, and automated network that connects everyone and everything from cloud to client through converged core, network slicing, edge computing, and other innovations.
The document discusses the benefits of network automation for service providers. It notes that automation can deliver 30% higher revenue from faster time to value, 70% lower costs from operational efficiencies, and 40% better customer satisfaction from faster remediation. The need for automation is driven by rapid traffic growth, an explosion of devices and users, and increasing complexity. The document introduces Cisco's Crosswork automation solution, which uses tools like Cisco NSO, WAE, and Change Automation to provide closed-loop automation across various network operations disciplines for multi-vendor environments. Specific automation use cases discussed include intent-based networking, data centralization, improving quality of experience, accelerating issue identification and remediation times, and ongoing network
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.
Software innovations are needed to handle the increasing amounts of data being processed at the network edge. New technologies allow for more visibility and control over network traffic through real-time telemetry and segment routing. Automating configuration, policies, and software upgrades through standard-based data models helps networks run more efficiently and dependably to keep pace with growing mobility and data usage.
Part 1 of the Report: http://www.slideshare.net/CiscoSP360/report-what-is-signal-level-part-1
Read a blog post by the author covering his recent technical paper on signal leakage: http://cs.co/slsr
1) Cisco's 5G platform promises significant improvements in network performance including 10x increases in data rates, 20x reductions in latency, and 7.5x increases in cell site capacity.
2) 5G networks will need to support growing mobile traffic and new services enabled by technologies like IoT. They will also need to lower costs and support cloud platforms.
3) Cisco's 5G PowerX platform is a cloud-native, programmable, and automated network that connects everyone and everything from cloud to client through converged core, network slicing, edge computing, and other innovations.
The document discusses the benefits of network automation for service providers. It notes that automation can deliver 30% higher revenue from faster time to value, 70% lower costs from operational efficiencies, and 40% better customer satisfaction from faster remediation. The need for automation is driven by rapid traffic growth, an explosion of devices and users, and increasing complexity. The document introduces Cisco's Crosswork automation solution, which uses tools like Cisco NSO, WAE, and Change Automation to provide closed-loop automation across various network operations disciplines for multi-vendor environments. Specific automation use cases discussed include intent-based networking, data centralization, improving quality of experience, accelerating issue identification and remediation times, and ongoing network
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.
Software innovations are needed to handle the increasing amounts of data being processed at the network edge. New technologies allow for more visibility and control over network traffic through real-time telemetry and segment routing. Automating configuration, policies, and software upgrades through standard-based data models helps networks run more efficiently and dependably to keep pace with growing mobility and data usage.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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

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
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.
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.
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.
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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

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
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.
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.
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.
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
Webinar: Designing a schema for a Data WarehouseFederico Razzoli
Are you new to data warehouses (DWH)? Do you need to check whether your data warehouse follows the best practices for a good design? In both cases, this webinar is for you.
A data warehouse is a central relational database that contains all measurements about a business or an organisation. This data comes from a variety of heterogeneous data sources, which includes databases of any type that back the applications used by the company, data files exported by some applications, or APIs provided by internal or external services.
But designing a data warehouse correctly is a hard task, which requires gathering information about the business processes that need to be analysed in the first place. These processes must be translated into so-called star schemas, which means, denormalised databases where each table represents a dimension or facts.
We will discuss these topics:
- How to gather information about a business;
- Understanding dictionaries and how to identify business entities;
- Dimensions and facts;
- Setting a table granularity;
- Types of facts;
- Types of dimensions;
- Snowflakes and how to avoid them;
- Expanding existing dimensions and facts.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
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(Part 1) Special Report: What Is Signal Level?
1. Special Report:
What Is Signal Level?
Part 1
By Ron Hranac
An Industry Expert Digs In
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2. Special Report:
What Is Signal Level?
When measuring signal level at the output of an amplifier, the input to a cable modem, TV set or set top, just
what is it that’s being measured? The short answer is we’re measuring the amplitude of a signal or signals, but
what does that mean? I grabbed my copy of Webster’s New World Dictionary, and looked up both “level” and
“amplitude.” Here’s what the dictionary has to say about the two terms.
am·pli·tude (am’plƏ tōōd) n. [see ample] 1. scope, extent, breadth, etc. 2. abundance 3. range from mean to
extreme, as of an alternating current
lev·el (lev’l) n. [ < L. libra, a balance] 5. position in a scale of values [income level]
I’m not so sure that the folks who put the dictionary together had signal level in mind when defining level, so
let’s start with a few basics from the world of electricity and electronics. Grab a cup of coffee and a scientific
calculator – yes, there is some math involved.
Current
Current can be thought of as the flow of charged particles per unit of time. Ampere is a measure of electrical
current, and 1 ampere equals 1 coulomb of charge flowing past a given point in 1 second. Coulomb is a unit of
measure of electrically charged particles, where 1 coulomb equals 6.242 x 1018 electrons. An analogy for current
is the volume of water flowing through a garden hose, such as 1 gallon of water per second.
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4. Voltage
Electromotive force (EMF) is the force of electrical attraction between
two points of different charge potential. EMF is more commonly known
as voltage; the volt is a measure of electromotive force, and is abbreviated E or V. The potential difference between two points on a wire carrying 1 ampere of current when a power of 1 watt is dissipated between
the points is 1 volt. An analogy for voltage is water pressure in a garden
hose, such as 1 pound per square inch (PSI).
Resistance
Resistance (R) is an opposition to the flow of current. Ohm, abbreviated Ω, is a unit of resistance, where 1 ohm is defined as the resistance
that allows 1 ampere of current to flow between two points that have
a potential difference of 1 volt. A garden hose analogy is squeezing or
kinking the hose to oppose the flow of water.
Figure 1. Ohm’s Law simplified
Ohm’s Law
The previous definition is the basis for Ohm›s Law, which is R = E/I. Here R is resistance in ohms, E is electromotive force in volts, and I is current in amperes. (Current is abbreviated I for intensité de courant. Why not C?
That letter is used as an abbreviation for capacitance.) The formula R = E/I can be shuffled around a bit to give
us some of the other variations of Ohm’s Law: E = IR and I = E/R. Figure 1 shows an easy way to remember the
three Ohm’s Law formulas.
Using Ohm’s Law, we can look at an example with 0.010 volt or 10 millivolts (mV) across a 75-ohm resistance
(see Figure 2), and calculate the current:
I = E/R
I = 0.010 volt/75 ohms
I = 0.000133 ampere, or 0.133 mA
Power
Power is the rate at which work is done, or energy per unit of time, where 1 watt of power is equal to 1 volt causing a current of 1 ampere. Watt is the power required to do work at a rate of 1 joule per second. That is, a joule
of work per second is 1 watt. One joule is the work done by a force of 1
Newton acting over a distance of 1 meter. The joule is a measure of a
“Current, Voltage,
quantity of energy and equals 1 watt-second.
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level.”
The power company meter on the side of your house measures units of
kilowatt-hour, which equals the amount of energy “used” by a load of
1 kilowatt (1,000 watts) over a period of 1 hour, or 3.6 million joules.
If you think about it for a moment, 1 watt is simply the use or generation of 1 joule of energy per second. Other electrical units are in fact derived from the watt. As you’ve no doubt
surmised by now, all of this stuff is related. For instance, 1 volt is 1 watt per ampere. Another definition of 1 watt
is 1 volt of potential (EMF) “pushing” 1 ampere of current through a resistance, or P = EI. As was the case with
Ohm’s Law, a bit of equation shuffling will give us E = P/I and I = P/E.
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5. Figure 2. Calculating current in a DC circuit
Using your scientific calculator and some basic algebra, substitute the Ohm’s Law equivalents for E and I into the
formula P = EI, and the result is two other common expressions of power: P = E2/R and P = I2R.
Power in DC circuits
Power calculations and measurements in direct current (DC) circuits and applications are relatively straightforward. For example, if you have a 75-ohm resistor with an applied voltage of 10 millivolts, the power dissipated by
the resistor is 1.33 microwatt (P = E2/R = 0.0102/75 = 1.33x10-6 watt or 1.33 µW), as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Calculating power in a DC circuit.
Power in AC circuits
Because the previous example is a DC circuit, the voltage is a constant 10 millivolts and the current a constant
0.133 milliampere. As long as the resistor’s value remains fixed, it’s easy to calculate dissipated power. Alternating current (AC) circuits and applications are more complicated because the instantaneous voltage and current
are not constant. In order to equate the varying AC waveform to a DC equivalent component, one must work in
the world of root mean square (RMS) voltage and current.
In an AC circuit, the instantaneous values of voltage and current are varying continuously over time. How can
we define useful values for these varying quantities? Root mean square gives us effective quantities equivalent
to DC values. That is, RMS equates the values of AC and DC power to heat in a resistor by the same amount. (In
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case you were wondering, an RMS value is found by squaring the individual values of all the instantaneous values of voltage or current in a
single AC cycle. Take the average of these squares and find the square
root of the average.)
For instance, 10 mV RMS AC voltage causes the same average power
dissipation in a given resistor as does a 10 mV DC voltage. Likewise,
0.133 mA RMS alternating current has the same heating effect as
0.133 mA direct current. Root mean square values simplify calculations by making the product of RMS voltage and RMS current equal
to average power: PAVG = ERMS IRMS cos θ, where θ is the phase angle
between the current and voltage. In a purely resistive circuit where voltage and current are in phase, the formula is PAVG = ERMS IRMS.
Consider measuring the power of an unmodulated RF carrier – commonly called a continuous wave or CW carrier – which really is nothing more than a sinusoidal AC waveform. AC power measurement can be a bit tricky
because the product of voltage and current varies during the AC cycle by twice the frequency of the sine wave.
In other words, the output of a signal source such as a sinusoidal RF signal generator is a sine wave current at the
desired frequency, but the product of the signal’s voltage and current has what amounts to an equivalent average
DC component along with a component at twice the original frequency. In most cases of RF power measurement, “power” refers to the equivalent average DC component of the voltage and current product.
If you connect a thermocouple power meter to the output of an RF signal source, the power meter’s power sensor
will respond to the RF carrier’s DC component by averaging. The averaging usually is done over many cycles,
which, at RF, still can be a relatively short period of time.
Otherwise, if the power meter simply measured an instantaneous point in the sine wave, then measured that
sine wave at another instantaneous point, the reported power value would vary according to the instantaneous
product of the voltage and current at each measurement point.
This is the primary reason why most RF carrier power measurements are expressed in average power. In the
next installment, we’ll apply the basics discussed here to a more in-depth understanding of signal level.
Look for Part Two of this Special Report in October.
Ron Hranac is the Technical Leader
for Cisco Systems.
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