Tag: innovation

February 12, 2024

Just a couple of weeks ago, International Privacy Day passed with the usual fanfare as companies, organizations, and governments seized the opportunity to push their sound bites highlighting the importance of making privacy paramount. But I see an irony in […]

May 16, 2023

Smarter Technologies has announced its selection as a finalist for the IoT Innovation of the Year award at the Tech Excellence Awards 2023. This recognition celebrates products or services that have the potential to revolutionise our way of life. Smarter […]

December 21, 2022

As pandemic-related restrictions have ended in most parts of the world, customer-facing businesses have an excellent opportunity to gain new significance in the buying journey by modernizing Wi-Fi use to meet customers’ expectations. In this article, we look at how […]

December 14, 2022

5G labs are becoming very popular. CSPs are welcoming partners to work with them to come up with new ideas and use cases that will ultimately drive increased use of 5G networks and effectively increase their revenues. In Europe, Orange […]

November 14, 2022

What do efficiency, safety and innovation have in common when it comes to the world of advanced manufacturing? They all have the potential to be enhanced by mobile private networks (MPNs). MPNs are growing in popularity due to the availability […]

November 4, 2022

The world of telecoms is, among many other things, an exercise in developing and implementing technologies that have been standardized via a regimented, consensus-driven process. A reductive example—without standards, a handset sold into the U.S. market may not function on […]

June 20, 2022

In my conversations at the recent Cisco Live event in Las Vegas, there were several recurring themes but for the purposes of this piece I’ll focus in on two: the relationship between innovation and cost as a function of driving […]

June 6, 2022

Operators are looking for cost reduction in both CAPEX and OPEX — and RAN is one of the biggest cost factors for operators. It is also one of the most challenging areas when introducing new features and services. Tackling the […]

March 11, 2022

First detailed last year at a capital markets event and impactfully contextualized at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Qualcomm is moving fast on its strategy of expanding addressable market 7-fold to $700 billion by delivering the mobile technologies […]

November 10, 2021

For the last four decades, the wireless industry has been on its quest for enhancements in wireless networks and services. The RAN architecture has been opened in standardization for some time, but de facto interpretation and missing pieces have raised […]

March 16, 2021

The world’s most advanced and automated networking technologies are nothing without people to run them. People are also the key to creating innovation and new business value on top of these networks. Innovation has yet to be automated. You cannot, […]

June 16, 2020

To help data centers scale with the increasing networking demands being placed on them, Cisco is making dramatic improvements in the capacity and manageability of our Nexus switching platforms. Today we are announcing the next generation of Cisco’s Cloud Scale […]

August 1, 2019

Containers are an important technology for customers in their efforts to accelerate application innovation. At Cisco, we’ve been working across our ecosystem to offer solutions to help our customers deploy and manage container infrastructure and applications across on-premises and our […]

June 3, 2019

Safer Schools, Smart Cities and Connected Roadways – state and Local governments are using technology to create these real-world outcomes. In the Federal Government, technology is used to improve citizen services, and allow soldiers, sailors and airmen to do their […]

May 22, 2019

Technology is evolving at lightning speed and with each innovation comes the promise of making our lives easier or our businesses more profitable and efficient. The daily deluge of information about technology advancements can make us numb to it all. […]

May 6, 2019

Naples is breathing innovation, again! You may remember the Cisco Academy and Digital Transformation Lab, which opened at the University of Naples. It aims to revitalize the economy in Naples and fulfill smart community challenges by combining talent and passion […]

April 30, 2019

The rollout of better connectivity with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 is a once-in-a-generation gamechanger and I predict an explosion of innovation as a result. We’ve seen it before; when connectivity improves there is an accompanying wave of new products, services […]

November 1, 2018

The innovation toolbox is broad and deep, with a growing array of methods, technologies, and tools for bringing a diverse group of innovators to the table. Though the fields of business and social change can seem very different, the things […]

August 20, 2018

As enterprises endeavor to expand domestic and global footprints, agile network infrastructure connectivity across geographies continues to prove an ongoing challenge. In particular, ensuring that data shared over these networks is protected from unauthorized access is a primary directive in […]

June 25, 2018

It has been two years since we started shipping our cloud-scale networking products. The Cisco NCS 5500 Series was specifically designed to be a scalable, low-power consumption, and cost-optimized 100G routing platform, with a path to 400G. The NCS 5500 […]