Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance

The Tipping Point: Managing the Cost of Data Center Interconnect in the AI Era

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The Tipping Point: Managing the Cost of Data Center Interconnect in the AI Era

In my previous blog post, I talked about the growing financial burden that AI-driven data growth will place on enterprises. IDC predicts that data generation will grow explosively, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.5% through 2027, which will lead to unprecedented growth in the need for more robust data center interconnect (DCI) solutions by enterprises. Traditionally, enterprises have leased high-capacity circuits from service providers for DCI. These leased circuits are often 10G…

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Building Simpler, Resilient, and AI-Ready Networks

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Building Simpler, Resilient, and AI-Ready Networks

I sat down with senior leaders from Colt, stc Group, and Swisscom to hear these innovative service providers’ strategies for the delivery of digital experiences in an AI-powered world. We talked about how they are simplifying their networks to meet growing customer demands and how they are embracing assurance, automation, and autonomous networking to transform their operations, ensure the resiliency of their services, and drive new revenue streams. Q: Jason Teller—Yasser, congratulations on the success…

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Bridging the Gap Between Provisioning and Customer Experience

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Bridging the Gap Between Provisioning and Customer Experience

Working closely with customers who develop and deploy network automation, I’ve often heard the question: “Is the configured network service actually delivered according to customer expectations?” This is not just theoretical; it reflects a real-world challenge many service providers face. It can be difficult to get the right configuration in place in time for any vendor. But even once it’s done, you may realize the customer still hasn’t received the right service, though the network…

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Transforming Assurance for AI Connectivity: The Power of Network Intelligence

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Transforming Assurance for AI Connectivity: The Power of Network Intelligence

Service providers play a critical role in defining how, where, and when data from artificial intelligence (AI) applications moves through networks. However, rapid traffic growth imposes a significant challenge for communications service providers: how to profitably manage the data growth from more locations, devices, and people while meeting customers’ expectations with secure, resilient, and differentiated services. Cisco’s new Agile Services Networking blueprint reimagines service provider networks for future growth and innovation. Providers can then take…

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Achieving Reliable AI Models for Network Performance Assurance

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Achieving Reliable AI Models for Network Performance Assurance

AI models are only as good as the data they are trained on. For AI models to be truly useful, they require accuracy, granularity, and diverse sources of data—like how the quality of a photograph depends on sharpness and clarity, level of detail, and the information it conveys. Accuracy is how true to life an image is—if it’s blurry or distorted, the details are misleading. Granularity is the level of detail captured—zoomed out, you get…

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How Visibility Affects the Warfighter

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How Visibility Affects the Warfighter

The Transformation of Warfare in the Digital Age In the modern era, warfare has been radically transformed by technological advancements and shifting geopolitical dynamics. One of the most significant changes is the growing dependence on digital, cyber and technological capabilities. Warfare technology has emerged as a pivotal aspect, with nations developing advanced tools to safeguard their digital infrastructures, potentially disrupt adversaries’ systems, and enable the modern warfighter to fight the enemy from greater distances and…

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The Next Wave of Service Assurance: Driving Revenue and Customer Experience

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The Next Wave of Service Assurance: Driving Revenue and Customer Experience

Communications service providers (CSPs) are starting to think about service assurance in a new light, recognizing—and reaping—value from the technology beyond its baseline capacity to support performance monitoring and assurance. By using high-quality performance data from the same set of assurance sensors or probes, but making the insights more accessible to different internal and external user personas in a fully customizable and secure way, providers can differentiate their services and create new revenue opportunities. If…

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Myth-Busting Assurance: Device-Centric vs. Service-Centric and Why Both Are Key

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Myth-Busting Assurance: Device-Centric vs. Service-Centric and Why Both Are Key

Today, many systems look at assurance purely on a device level, using port stats, device health, syslogs, and other infrastructure or device-based telemetry data. It’s useful to understand and get insight from a device perspective, but this insight is reactive. Likewise, the primary way to discover that a customer or end user is impacted by network performance issues in this scenario is still through trouble tickets. However, if a customer has already taken the time…

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Deeper Service-centric Visibility Drives New Revenue and Simplifies Operations

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Deeper Service-centric Visibility Drives New Revenue and Simplifies Operations

Growing the business while simplifying network operations and maintaining service levels are top challenges for customers running critical and complex enterprise and service provider networks. Consistent availability is one issue that makes this a challenge, because your customers are sensitive to performance fluctuations and any impacts to digital experience for end users. While avoiding outages remains key, network delays and latency are productivity killers in their own right. You could say: “slow is the new…

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