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
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.
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.
Presentation by Nicolas Fischbach @niCRO at MPLS/SDN/NFV World Congress 2016 - Paris 2016.
The architecture behind Colt On Demand - which provides self-service capabilities for flexible, PAYG network services. Supports elastic bandwidths, elastic topology and an elastic service edge through SDN/NFV for a digital, real time on demand customer experience.
Evolving to a New Generation Networkbased on IP, SDN, NFV & CloudEricsson
At BBWF 2014, Jeff White (Head of Broadband Convergence & IP Ericsson, North America) presented the insights on the necessary steps to manage when preparing for a transformation of a service provider network of today to a new architecture based on SDN, NFV & Cloud.
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.
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.
Presentation by Nicolas Fischbach @niCRO at MPLS/SDN/NFV World Congress 2016 - Paris 2016.
The architecture behind Colt On Demand - which provides self-service capabilities for flexible, PAYG network services. Supports elastic bandwidths, elastic topology and an elastic service edge through SDN/NFV for a digital, real time on demand customer experience.
Evolving to a New Generation Networkbased on IP, SDN, NFV & CloudEricsson
At BBWF 2014, Jeff White (Head of Broadband Convergence & IP Ericsson, North America) presented the insights on the necessary steps to manage when preparing for a transformation of a service provider network of today to a new architecture based on SDN, NFV & Cloud.
This presentation highlights the progress made in SDN/NFV in the past year. In terms of technology we have started to talk about use cases that require much deeper integration with existing network infrastructure. New revenues are increasingly becoming the dominant business rationale for adopting SDN and NFV – a shift from a CAPEX/OPEX driven focus last year. More importantly, we are evaluating the operational impacts of the migration and this is widely expected to be the long tail of this network evolution journey.
Peter Coppens, VP Product, presentation from Layer 123 SDN NFV World Congress in the Hague, October 2017. SD WAN benefits and caveats from real use cases.
Amdocs Service Design and Create automates onboarding and service design for rapid, cost-effective innovation. View our SlideShare for more information.
Assuring VNF image integrity and host sealing in telco cloudShankar Lal
In Telco cloud environment, virtual network functions
(VNFs) can be shipped in the form of virtual machine
images and hosted over commodity hardware. It is likely that
these VNF images will contain highly sensitive data and mission critical network operations. For this reason, these VNF images are prone to malicious tampering during shipping and even after uploaded to the cloud image database. Furthermore, due to various applications, there is a requirement from mobile network operators to seal VNFs on specific platforms which satisfy certain hardware and software configurations. This requires cloud service providers to introduce some mechanisms to verify VNF image integrity and host sealing before the instantiation of VNFs. In this paper, we present a proof of concept demonstrated with the help of an experimental setup to solve the above mentioned problems. We also evaluate the performance of the envisioned setup and present some insights on its usability.
OnLife Networks transforms Telefonica Central Office infrastructure into software defined Data Centre using Virtualization and SDN.
Programmable Networks improve the Customer Experience and provide a Platform for 3rd Party Services
Ericsson Review: Software-Defined-NetworkingEricsson
An architecture based on software-defined networking (SDN) techniques gives operators greater freedom to balance operational and business parameters, such as network resilience, service performance and QoE against opex and capex. With its beginnings in data-center technology, software-defined networking (SDN) technology has developed to the point where it can offer significant opportunities to service providers.
The traditional way of describing network architecture and how a network behaves is through the fixed designs and behaviors of its various elements. The concept of software-defined networking (SDN) describes networks and how they behave in a more flexible way – through software tools that describe network elements in terms of programmable network states.
To maximize the potential benefits and deliver superior user experience, software-defined networking (SDN) needs to be implemented outside the sphere of the data center across the entire network. This can be achieved through enabling network programmability based on open APIs. Service Provider SDN will help operators to scale networks and take advantage of new revenue-generating possibilities.
For more from Ericsson Review visit: http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/technology_insights
Fahim Sabir, Director Architecture and Development, Colt Network On Demand, keynote presentation at Light Reading's Automation and the New Carrier Network.
This presentation highlights the progress made in SDN/NFV in the past year. In terms of technology we have started to talk about use cases that require much deeper integration with existing network infrastructure. New revenues are increasingly becoming the dominant business rationale for adopting SDN and NFV – a shift from a CAPEX/OPEX driven focus last year. More importantly, we are evaluating the operational impacts of the migration and this is widely expected to be the long tail of this network evolution journey.
Peter Coppens, VP Product, presentation from Layer 123 SDN NFV World Congress in the Hague, October 2017. SD WAN benefits and caveats from real use cases.
Amdocs Service Design and Create automates onboarding and service design for rapid, cost-effective innovation. View our SlideShare for more information.
Assuring VNF image integrity and host sealing in telco cloudShankar Lal
In Telco cloud environment, virtual network functions
(VNFs) can be shipped in the form of virtual machine
images and hosted over commodity hardware. It is likely that
these VNF images will contain highly sensitive data and mission critical network operations. For this reason, these VNF images are prone to malicious tampering during shipping and even after uploaded to the cloud image database. Furthermore, due to various applications, there is a requirement from mobile network operators to seal VNFs on specific platforms which satisfy certain hardware and software configurations. This requires cloud service providers to introduce some mechanisms to verify VNF image integrity and host sealing before the instantiation of VNFs. In this paper, we present a proof of concept demonstrated with the help of an experimental setup to solve the above mentioned problems. We also evaluate the performance of the envisioned setup and present some insights on its usability.
OnLife Networks transforms Telefonica Central Office infrastructure into software defined Data Centre using Virtualization and SDN.
Programmable Networks improve the Customer Experience and provide a Platform for 3rd Party Services
Ericsson Review: Software-Defined-NetworkingEricsson
An architecture based on software-defined networking (SDN) techniques gives operators greater freedom to balance operational and business parameters, such as network resilience, service performance and QoE against opex and capex. With its beginnings in data-center technology, software-defined networking (SDN) technology has developed to the point where it can offer significant opportunities to service providers.
The traditional way of describing network architecture and how a network behaves is through the fixed designs and behaviors of its various elements. The concept of software-defined networking (SDN) describes networks and how they behave in a more flexible way – through software tools that describe network elements in terms of programmable network states.
To maximize the potential benefits and deliver superior user experience, software-defined networking (SDN) needs to be implemented outside the sphere of the data center across the entire network. This can be achieved through enabling network programmability based on open APIs. Service Provider SDN will help operators to scale networks and take advantage of new revenue-generating possibilities.
For more from Ericsson Review visit: http://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/technology_insights
Fahim Sabir, Director Architecture and Development, Colt Network On Demand, keynote presentation at Light Reading's Automation and the New Carrier Network.
MT112 CHANNEL You don't have to dance around Dell EMC channel services...an ...Dell EMC World
From a hardware perspective, our channel goals are clear: provide maximum options for buying Dell EMC around the world. The same is true for services. There is a ton of services news to share. With simplicity, predictability and profitability as our channel pillars, we are delivering comprehensive sales readiness, technical training, certification and competencies, incentives, and an expanded portfolio. Plus, we want to hear from you. What else do you want from a new Dell EMC services program? Join us—let’s talk about why you’ve partnered with Dell EMC in the first place.
Dell EMC - - OpenStack Summit 2016/Red Hat NFV Mini Summit kimw001
Dell EMC's carrier-grade open NFV solution - powered by Red Hat OpenStack Platform. Presented at Red Hat's NFV Mini Summit at OpenStack Summit 2016 in Barcelona.
Please check out Murali Nemani, Cisco Director of Service Provider Marketing, keynote "ShiFt Happens" debuted at IPTV World Forum 2010.
What's top of mind in 2010? The universal answer is "monetization." The re-shaping of the video ecosystem as a catalyst for online video.
Learn about the 3rd Wave: IP Video & the 5 Tenets for IP Video 1) next gem platform 2) large scale unicast 3) video intelligence 4) common client architecture 5)managed/unmanaged.
Software Defined Networking (SDN) with VMware NSXZivaro Inc
Combining SDN with VMware’s NSX can accelerate application deployment and delivery in a secure and virtualized network. No longer will your network create a bottleneck when trying to administer new applications. Key topics include:
- How SDN allows for innovative ways to use a virtualized network
- Why SDN creates greater span of control, network analytics and response
- What intelligence can be gained from a global view of the network
- How SDN and NSX together allow IT to treat their physical network as a pool of transport capacity that can be consumed and repurposed on demand
From: "Software Defined Networking for NSX" webinar presented by Scott Hogg of GTRI and Hunter Hansen of VMware on February 3, 2016. Webinar recording: https://youtu.be/t_3DpN3nIXQ
Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast InfographicCisco Service Provider
-How much mobile data traffic will be generated globally by 2018?
-How many mobile users will there be globally by 2018?
-How much of the global mobile traffic is being offloaded to wi-fi?
-How much global mobile traffic will be 4G by 2018?
-How many mobile connections will there be across the globe by 2018?
-How much of the global mobile traffic is "smart"?
-How much of the world's mobile traffic will be video by 2018?
Get these questions answered in this at a glance infographic. For more info, read http://cs.co/mvnib . Also, follow #VNI on Twitter to see what others are saying about this Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast. Please visit http://cs.co/busin for consolidated Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast graphics.
Watch this short video for additional highlights from the Cisco VNI Global Mobile Data Forecast: http://youtu.be/3ezIZ93rej8
The Future of Cloud Networking is VMware NSXScott Lowe
This presentation was first given at Varrow Madness 2014 and discusses the need for a solution specifically designed (like VMware NSX) for cloud networking
Get a technical understanding of the components of NSX, including how switching, routing, firewalling, load-balancing and other services work within NSX.
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.
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.
Making Networks More Agile, Open, and Application Centric - Cisco InsightsCisco Service Provider
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
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.
Welcome to NEC! SpiceCorp of Dallas / Fort WorthInteractiveNEC
NEC recently welcomed regional user group members from the Spiceworks community to their Irving-based headquarters. The Dallas/Fort Worth SpiceCorp Group held their monthly meeting at NEC, kicking it off with a reception in the Executive Briefing Center where members ate and enjoyed beverages, while being able to mix and mingle with NEC’s Subject Matter Experts.
NEC presented several short 15 minute presentations with a lot of time for Q&A/discussions on:
• NEC’s Smart Enterprise Overview
• Simplifying Network Administration with Software Defined Networking
• Business Continuity Technology that Helps You Sleep Peacefully at Night
• Storage Technology that Handles Ever Increasing Corporate Data
• Short Preview of NEC’s Cloud-based Services
Watch the entire event at https://youtu.be/JqlTPiaDDQ4?list=PLWJf584cuAlRm94wTWUNR78hfVYoy6FEO.
Are you facing some, or all, of these challenges?
-Host Mobility (w/o stretching VLANs)
-Network Segmentation (w/o implementing MPLS)
-Roles-based Access Control (w/o end-to-end TrustSec)
-Common Policy for Wired and Wireless (w/o multiple tools)
Using Cisco technologies already available today, you can overcome these challenges and build an evolved Campus network to better meet your business objectives.
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
Presentation to media & analysts at Interop 2013 in Las Vegas. Overview of Cisco's SDN strategy & customer solutions in development. Learn more about how Cisco is moving forward with software solutions and helping our customers build smarter businesses with the new application economy.
[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.
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.
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.
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

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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.
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
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
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
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.
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*Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2014–2019, Cisco, May 27, 2015.
Big Changes Are Coming
Annual global IP traffic
to surpass a zettabyte by the
end of 2016*
21% Expected year-over-year
growth rate of global IP traffic*
How much is a zettabyte?
1000 exabytes
(or 1,000,000,000,000,000 MB)
1 ZETTABYTE
1 EXABYTE
3. 3
* Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2014–2019, Cisco, May 27, 2015.
** Network Equipment Providers: Restoring Investor Trust, Accenture, Sept. 2012.
Companies and Consumers
Are Going Mobile
Data-Hungry Devices
Compared to the data consumption
of a standard mobile phone**
:
SMARTPHONE TABLET
Forecast for
201646% wired devices vs.
54% Wi-Fi and mobile*
Global IP traffic in
201356% wired devices
vs.
44% Wi-Fi and mobile*
4. 4
There’s a Massive Opportunity
Connecting people, process, data, and things
$1.7 Trillion
Value of the
Internet of Everything
(IoE) toService
Providers over
Next Decade
M2M
M2P
P2P
Remote
Monitoring Service
M2M
Commerce
Intelligent
Diagnostics
Targeted
Advertising
Personalized
Traffic Report
Contextual
Security
mHealth
Order Refills
Home
Control
Collaboration
as a Service
Telepresence
as a Service
Relationship
Services
5. 5
To Capture These Opportunities,
You Must Transform
Add new services
to give customers
more choices.
Enter new markets
to reach new customers
and geographies.
Simplify operations
to reduce costs and
increase speed.
Let’s focus here.
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What’s Driving the Need to
Simplify Operations?
Simplify Operations
Need to realign costs with
expected revenue growth
Customer trends and demands
that require much faster
response and efficient scaling
Inefficient use of people and
network due to too many
proprietary monolithic systems
Need to bring new
services to market faster
7. 7
Are You Ready?
Many networks are not ready for the next wave of innovation.
Architectures are
based on proprietary,
monolithic products.
Technology sprawl
adds complexity.
Internal processes
are slow.
Virtual networksare
as chaotic as
physical networks.
More expensive, less flexible, and require high touch to make changes
Expensive to operate and requires highly skilled engineers and technicians
Cannot turn on new services quickly
Requires selection of strategic partners to manage
Current State Challenges
8. 8
Three Technology Solutions
To overcome limitations, service providers are turning to:
Foundations of the Cisco®
open network architecture for service providers
Software-defined networking for improved network
services management and application-network interaction
Network functions virtualization to transform network
architectures and operations
A global development community for common solutions
and broad participation in innovation
SDN
NFV
Open-Source
Collaboration
9. 9
Cisco Open Network Architecture
for Service Providers
HD
Monetize Customer Experiences
Personal
Experiences
Pervasive
Security
Business
Experiences
Professional
and
Partner Services
Applications
Simplify Service Creation and Delivery
Cisco®
Evolved Services Platform (ESP)
Orchestrate Services with Policy and Automation
Cisco®
Evolved Programmable Network (EPN)
Program Multivendor Physical and Virtual Infrastructure
Open
APIs
Open
APIs
10. 10
Cisco Evolved Programmable Network
Open, Programmable
Infrastructure
• Provides compute, network,
and storage functions
• Includes physical and virtual
NFV infrastructure, data
center, and WAN
• Flexible and elastic
forwarding fabric
• Supports all services—
mobility, video, cloud,
personal, and business
HD
Applications
Simplify Service Creation and Delivery
Cisco®
Evolved Services Platform (ESP)
Orchestrate Services with Policy and Automation
Cisco®
Evolved Programmable Network (EPN)
Program Multivendor Physical and Virtual Infrastructure
Monetize Customer Experiences
Personal
Experiences
Pervasive
Security
Business
Experiences
Professional
and
Partner Services
Open
APIs
Open
APIs
11. 11
Cisco Evolved Services Platform
Open, Modular
Software Platform for
Network Services
• Automate your
services delivery.
• Slash your network
operations costs.
• Launch new services rapidly.
HD
Applications
Simplify Service Creation and Delivery
Cisco®
Evolved Services Platform (ESP)
Orchestrate Services with Policy and Automation
Cisco®
Evolved Programmable Network (EPN)
Program Multivendor Physical and Virtual Infrastructure
Open
APIs
Monetize Customer Experiences
Personal
Experiences
Pervasive
Security
Business
Experiences
Professional
and
Partner Services
Open
APIs
12. 12
Deliver Real Results
78% reduction in operating expenses and a 200% increase in ROI as a result
of the capabilities they acquired from the Cisco®
ESP
More efficient
use of resources
Delivered common
cloud platform
Real-time data for
predictive analysis
Expedited service
provisioning
Virtualized service
creation and delivery
And more
Automated and
orchestrated sales cycle
13. 13
Case Study Objective
Devise a quick and secure way to connect to
all data and all clouds for customers that typically
rely on 40–80 separate cloud environments to
support varied business applications.
Solution
Implement Cisco®
cloud and Intercloud solutions,
includingCisco ESP.
Results
The solution added policy, performance, security,
and visibilityall the way up to the application level
and removed performance concerns associated
with hybridcloud services.
Equinix Expands as a
Provider of Enterprise
Cloud Services
14. 14
Direct Benefits of Cisco Open Network Architecture
Decrease operating costs
across your network.
Deploy resources efficiently against
important strategic initiatives.
Increase revenue and ROI by implementing
services faster with fewer resources.
Gain strategic value as you
elevate the role of the network.