More than 20 global service provider and mobile operator customers
worldwide are advancing their 5G action plans with Cisco
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)
-- Mobile World
Congress - Continuing on its path to disrupt the
industry by redefining the network, Cisco announced today its '5G
Now' portfolio for service providers ready to go full throttle on
their 5G roadmap.
5G services promise to offer emerging new services
at significantly faster speeds, expanded capacity and stronger
coverage to accommodate the more than 27 billion connected
devices1 expected
on service provider networks by 2021. Beginning 2020, 5G
connections will grow more than a thousand percent from 2.3 million
in 2020 to over 25 million in 20212.
At Mobile World Congress this week, many
technology vendors are focused on the spectrum advantages, radio
equipment and architecture to support 5G services. Cisco is
committed to showing service providers and mobile operators why 5G
is important to plan for, and what they can really do with it.
Cisco's role here is focused on three things:
- Services: Planning
for new 5G-enabled services Cisco can help deliver
- Infrastructure:
Mapping the right 5G infrastructure to their needs
- Automation:
Helping to make the mass network scaling for 5G simpler to manage,
operate and secure
Cisco uniquely offers its customers a
cloud-to-client approach for 5G networking, resulting from its
investments and commitment to developing cloud applications and
services, to help customers unify multi-vendor solutions into a
single, standards-based architecture. Key elements in the Cisco '5G
Now' portfolio include:
- Multi-cloud:
Helping manage workloads across a full ecosystem of private,
public, and hybrid clouds to connect enterprise, consumers, and
service providers.
- IP Core: Cisco can
expand programmability and capabilities of the network with
real-time telemetry for automation, featuring
the new Cisco NCS-500 Series of access
routers with the Cisco IOS XR software as a single
domain from the data center to the cell tower.
- 5G Packet Core and Service
Edge: With Cisco Ultra, its cloud-native, mobile
virtualized packet core, Cisco provides a unified platform for
service enablement over licensed and unlicensed radio solutions and
IoT services - all the way to the network edge.
- Access: Cisco
offers a comprehensive solution that unifies cable, fiber, Wi-Fi,
and a variety of licensed radio solutions including virtualized RAN
architectures such as Open RAN. The new Cisco SONFlex Studio
features drag-and-drop ease to create new self-organizing network
(SON) APIs to customize service handling and quality of experience
in the radio access network.
- Client
Services: This is where the cloud meets the customer.
Cisco will be demonstrating a number of client services that can be
delivered today including Managed Cisco Spark for collaboration
service over mobile, virtual managed services for cloud-based
SD-WAN business services, and the Cisco Jasper platform for
IoT.
- Security: Cisco
secures the Service Provider from the cloud, to the network, to the
client with its new 5G Security Architecture that builds upon the
comprehensive portfolio of threat-centric solutions to securely
enable 5G mobile networks. New offers include Stealthwatch for
enhanced breach detection and visibility within Evolved Packet Core
(EPC) and network slices, Stealthwatch Cloud for cloud-managed
network security, and the Cisco Umbrella Security Suite.
- Professional
Services: Cisco takes an open approach to partnering
and co-developing with its customers to fit the right solution,
offering experienced personnel to support the customers' teams from
start to finish.
Cisco's '5G Now' demonstrations are available at
the Cisco booth in Hall 3 Hybrid Hall, #3E30.
More than 20 global service provider and mobile
operator customers worldwide are advancing their 5G action plans
with Cisco including Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and many others.
"STC is working closely with Cisco as a key
technology partner to drive innovation for the future of Saudi
Arabia communications," said Eng. Nasser
Al Nasser, chief operations officer, STC. "We are
aligned with the Kingdom's Vision 2030 for a digital society that
fosters growth in Saudi Arabia's economy. Our plans to advance our
communications infrastructure with programmability and automation
will support a host of new services enabled by 5G spanning
education, enterprise, health, IoT, recreation and tourism."
"4G was about buying connectivity, and 5G is about
buying experiences," said Yvette Kanouff, senior vice president, general manager,
Service Provider Business, Cisco. "5G creates a new environment for service
creation, giving operators what they need to deliver next-level
entertainment experiences. Only Cisco
has the services, infrastructure and automation portfolio
to support our global customers with their 5G initiatives."
Cisco is leading the disruption in the industry
with our technology innovations in systems, silicon, optics and
security, and our unrivalled expertise in mass-scale
networking, automation, optical, cable access, video, and mobility.
Together with our portfolio of professional services, we
can enable service providers and media and web companies to
reduce cost and complexity, help secure their networks and grow
revenue.
Supporting
Resources
- Service Provider Mobile Internet
- Cisco 5G Now
- NCS 540 Fixed Platform Architecture White
Paper
- NCS 540 Router Data Sheet
- Cisco 5G Security Portfolio
- Blog: Cisco Introduces a 5G Security Architecture
to Enable Secure Network Transformation
- Cisco Service Provider business
- Cisco Services
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1 Cisco
Visual Networking Index Forecast (VNI), 2016-2021
2 Cisco
VNI Mobile 2017