Cisco Tribune Spring 2016

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Second Quarter Volume 9, Issue 2 • www.ciscotribune.com • A report published by Telecom Reseller

Cisco Announces
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Top Industry Veterans to SEE PAGE 8
the Cisco Solution SEE PAGE 11
Collaboration Cloud Collaboration with

Lead New Cisco Practice
Partner Program
Services Portfolio
Ericsson and Intel

to Develop Next-

Generation 5G

Router for Business

and Residential

Services

At GSMA Mobile World Congress, Cisco
announced that it will begin collaborating
with Ericsson and Intel to develop and
trial what is expected to be the industry’s
irst 5G (ifth generation mobile networks)
router. As members of the Verizon 5G
Technology Forum, Cisco, Ericsson and
Intel are partnering with Verizon within an
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of critical
5G innovations.
The companies expect the next-generation
5G router to enable business and residential
customers to achieve signiicantly faster
networking speeds, lower latency, and
the ability to handle exponentially
more Internet-connected devices.
This advancement is intended to help
accommodate the expected explosion of the
Internet of Everything, and the streaming of
high-deinition video content.
This collaboration of industry leaders
and 5G pioneers will help to enable secure,
ultra-high speed wireless bandwidth. The

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Cisco Launches New

Network Functions

Virtualization Infrastructure
Solution to Help Service

Providers Run Network

Services Better, Faster

Digitization is driving service providers to
ind new ways to do things better, faster
and with lower costs. To get there, many
are moving toward virtualization and
simpliied programmability solutions for
their networks.
Network functions virtualization (NFV)
and software deined networking (SDN) are
the popular software-based approaches that
service providers are using to design, deploy
and manage their networks and services.
Cisco introduced its new NFV
Infrastructure Solution (NFVI), combining
virtual and physical environments, and
providing all the necessary compute,
storage, and networking infrastructure to

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