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Cisco to drop $1.9 billion to acquire BroadSoft

Part of cloud investment strategy for enterprise digitization Following industry rumblings, Cisco this morning discussed its decision to acquire BroadSoft for $1.9 billion. According to a company announcement, benefits will be the "acceleration of the pace of innovation across Cisco’s collaboration portfolio, the delivery of...

Market competition forces HPE out of cloud server business

HPE ceases to offer low-end server offerings to tier 1 service providers Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is bowing out of the cloud server game after announcing it is no longer providing low-end commodity servers to tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Last Wednesday, HPE President Antonio...

Security vulnerabilities move Cisco, McAfee to quicken threat detection

Cisco and McAfee announce partnership focused on shared threat intelligence The need for robust online security continues to grow as hackers contrive new and creative ways to circumnavigate existing countermeasures and disrupt networks. In an effort to shield companies from these threats, Security firm McAfee...

Cisco secures new smart city project in the U.K.

The U.S. networking company will work with the city of Southend-on-Sea in a number of smart city initiatives Cisco has signed a new agreement for the deployment of a number of smart city initiatives in Southend-on-Sea, in the U.K. Southend-on-Sea said that the primary goal of...

Updated DOCSIS 3.1 standard adds full duplex to hybrid fiber-coax networks

Simultaneous, symmetric upstream and downstream transmission requires a new approach to interference management for DOCSIS 3.1 DENVER--As cable companies look to support increasingly bandwidth intensive use cases, including a new wave of uplink-heavy and latency sensitive applications, DOCSIS 3.1 has proved very beneficial in increasing...

Cisco kicks off IoT initiative in Hong Kong

Cisco has established a partner-driven IoT digital lab Cisco has launched an IoT-based smart city pilot program in Hong Kong dubbed the Digital Living Lab. Together with a number of partners, Cisco set up a low-power RAN gateway (LoRaWAN) at Hong Kong Science Park (HKSTP)...

Cisco: ‘In the IoT space, it’s going to be all about data’

CHICAGO--Boaz Maoz, head of global sales for Cisco Kinetic, said embracing the internet of things (IoT) is an imperative for business success going forward, but it's not easy. "Customers are struggling," he said during a keynote presentation at the Enterprise IoT World event. Maoz laid...

Multi-cloud adoption drives Cisco ACI updates

Cisco debuts ACI 3.0 for customers managing multi-cloud environments Cisco recently updated its software-defined networking (SDN) offering solution, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), due to the growing embracement of multi-cloud environments. According to the company, ACI 3.0 includes updated security and simplified management for any mix...

NFV adoption extends to Belgium with Proximus, Cloudify collaboration

Operator prioritizing NFV MANO Proximus, Belgium’s largest telecommunications company, has selected Cloudify’s cloud-native orchestration platform in its push toward network functions virtualization (NFV). Proximus will leverage Cloudify’’s platform to provide management and orchestration (MANO), and assist with onboarding and deploying virtualized network functions (VNF). NFV has...

What’s holding back the IoT?

The internet of things may someday deliver a world of robots and intelligent machines that control all manner of devices, but for now, most connected devices are ultimately controlled by humans. Humans need information - we demand data, and then we want data about...

The top 10 smart city suppliers

Cisco has beaten IBM for the first time to the top spot in Navigant Research’s poll of the top smart city suppliers. IBM, which has ranked in first position in each of the consultancy group’s previous assessments of suppliers in the smart city market,...

Cloud-based data centers shifting Cisco strategy

Cisco looks for ways to grow business with cloud-based platform Cisco took a major step toward migrating its data center management business to the cloud with the debut of Cisco Intersight, a cloud-based automation platform for Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and HyperFlex. The release...

China Telecom Global chooses Versa Networks for global SD-WAN

China Telecom Global among first service provider to deploy global SD-WAN service China Telecom Global (CTG), a multinational telecom service provider, announced it has chosen Versa Networks as its main vendor for its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and software-defined security (SD-Security) solutions. CTG is...

Cisco begins field tests for ACI Virtual Edge

Cisco looks to bring ACI to three major cloud vendors with initial field tests Cisco recently announced it will commence early field trials for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Virtual Edge. The news follows in the foot trails of the company announcing it intends to...

Warriors4Wireless prepares vets for careers in telecom

Warriors4Wireless program equips veterans with skills and certification required for work in wireless telecommunications Among the 20.9 million veterans living in the U.S., about 450,000 are either unemployed or without jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics annual Employment Situation for Veterans. In an effort...

IoT security top of mind for smart manufacturing

In a recent blog post Eric Ehlers, marketing manager for manufacturing and energy at Cisco, noting the numerous opportunities for cyber exploitation faced by manufacturers--legacy equipment with dated or no security protocols, an IT/OT disconnect, guidelines laying out responsibilities and access and "never conducting...

Cisco to acquire Springpath

As the internet of things increases the amount of data that needs to be stored and analyzed at the network edge, Cisco wants to supply much more than network equipment. The company has been investing for years in platform software, and today Cisco announced...

Five software-defined networking market leaders

The booming NFV and SDN market The network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) market is expected to be worth approximately $54.41 billion by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate of 71.4%, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. Accompanying the report is...

How network standardization can future-proof connected cars (Reader Forum)

The pace of change in connected car technology could quickly render new vehicles obsolete, especially in the age of the internet of things (IoT). With the number of connected “things” expected to reach 20.4 billion by 2020, ensuring that the cars of today are...

Five SD-WAN technology leaders

The growing SD-WAN market Service providers are launching software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions at an increasing pace. Market intelligence provider IDC projects the SD-WAN market will expand from $225 million in 2015 to $1.19 billion by end of 2017. Given the number of SD-WAN services available...

Cisco completes $610 million Viptela acquisition

Cisco purchases Viptela as part of SD-WAN strategy Cisco completed its $610 million acquisition of Viptela Inc., a privately held software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) company, Tuesday, hastening the company’s Network Intuitive initiative launched in June. Software-defined networking (SDN) is a developing architecture that decouples network...

Top 3 smart cities in North America

A growing number of smart cities are currently under development in North America. City authorities in several cities across the U.S are taking steps in order to implement smart city schemes, mainly in the energy, traffic and transportation fields. Here, we describe three of...

Top 3 smart cities in North America

A growing number of smart cities are currently under development in North America. City authorities in several cities across the U.S are taking steps in order to implement smart city schemes, mainly in the energy, traffic and transportation fields. Here, we describe three of...

Actility bringing new vehicle tracking solution to the U.S.

The new offering combines Abeeway tracker hardware with Actility IoT platform and Cisco gateways Actility, a French company which specializes in low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and location solutions, has launched a vehicle tracking solution for the U.S. market. The offering combines Abeeway Master Tracker...