By Akanimo Sampson
US tech giant, Cisco, has announced a new corporate strategy and product line up that will help communication service providers and web scale companies around the world connect, secure and automate their networks to deliver a stronger, more accessible internet to everyone.
Connectivity is more important than ever before, as the world continues to acclimatise to the new normal, brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Telecoms networks were absolutely crucial in ensuring that people were able to continue to work and study remotely during the pandemic, and remote work and study initiatives are set to be a part of the landscape for years to come.
Cisco predicts this is only a glimpse of the traffic volume we will see in the 5G era, with 29.3 billion connected devices expected in 2023.
Internet architecture needs continuous care and attention to support the world’s ambitions. With over three billion people still without access to the internet, a digital divide continues to develop where many are without access to vital information, learning and opportunities. The need to transform how we build intelligent networks is critical.
Vice President, Cisco Middle East and Africa, Reem Asaad, says “Cisco has spent the last five years researching and investing in this portfolio of innovation, focusing on how to help our customers deliver the best internet, while being able to grow revenue, reduce their costs and mitigate risk.
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“By helping our customers make the right decisions for their networks today, we are setting the world up for success, to connect more people, places and things than ever before. We can all look back on this point in time in the next ten years and celebrate how we rose to the challenge and did the right thing to take care of the internet.”
Cisco has been working with leading communication service providers and web scale companies including Airtel, Altibox, Eolo, Rakuten Mobile, SFR, Swisscom, Telenor, Telia Carrier, Telstra, Websprix and more to design the building blocks for the ‘Internet for the Future’, delivering greater efficiency, agility and savings gains than ever before.
With the introduction of its networking silicon architecture, Silicon One™ in 2019, Cisco offers its customers a unified, programmable silicon architecture designed to improve operational efficiencies and deliver the speed and capacity for the 5G era. In just 15 months Cisco has expanded the Cisco Silicon One platform from a routing focused solution to one which also addresses the web scale switching market, offering ten networking chips (devices) ranging from 3.2 Tbps to 25.6 Tbps, making it the highest performance programmable routing and switching silicon on the market.
Cisco is introducing its new Cisco Cloud Native Broadband Network Gateway for telco customers (wireline), joining the Cisco family of existing cloud native broadband routers for cable and mobile.
It paves the way for convergence to a unified subscriber management solution, bringing further simplification and efficiency while enabling service providers to offer truly access-agnostic services independent from where people use these services.
Crosswork Cloud delivers a new application called Traffic Analysis, offering a comprehensive view across network peering points. With this insight, Traffic Analysis provides actionable recommendations to optimise traffic at the network edge to help prevent impact on the customer experience.
Cisco Business Critical Services helps customers looking to transform to Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking and Cloud Native Broadband solutions ensure a smooth transition. With consulting on network architecture design and implementation planning, Business Critical Services helps accelerate migration and mitigate risk.
New options within Specialised Expertise Scrum Services and Expert-as-a-Service give customers access to powerful analytics and even greater flexibility to choose skill sets to fuel their transitions.
