digital divide

Powering Resilient Communities

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Powering Resilient Communities

In 2024, opportunity, disruption, and innovation intersected and accelerated at a previously unimagined pace. As a global community, we began to embrace AI to elevate work, government, economies, and the environment. But we also had to meet the accompanying risks – a widening digital divide, cyber threats, and the technology’s vast energy consumption. With over 60 countries gearing up for elections and new administrations this year, the political landscape added complexity as did the global…

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Digital Empowerment on Display at the Cisco Broadband Innovation Center

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Digital Empowerment on Display at the Cisco Broadband Innovation Center

A recent visit by a Nigerian delegation to the Cisco Broadband Innovation Center in Raleigh, N.C. highlights Cisco’s efforts to work with government and private sector investors to help modernize network architectures through validated designs. At the end of 2023, Nigeria had yet to reach 50% national broadband penetration. However, a promising initiative was launched this year to help communities tackle this challenge and overcome digital barriers through dependable and affordable internet access. A visit…

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Evolving Broadband Networks with Cisco Subscriber Edge

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Evolving Broadband Networks with Cisco Subscriber Edge

This is Part III of a three-blog series on solutions to overcome challenges associated with bridging the digital divide.    In part I of this series, we discussed traditional broadband network architectures and their limitations. In part II, we discussed details on the evolution of broadband networks, using a distributed architecture with a centralized control plane, designed to address the challenges associated with traditional broadband networks. In this final blog, we will focus on the…

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