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Cisco in the running to buy FireFly JV from Airtel and Vodafone Idea
Airtel and Vodafone Idea are in talks with Cisco Systems to sell their entire stake in their public Wi-Fi JV FireFly Networks for $25 million. Read more…
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Cisco cuts forecast as China’s COVID lockdowns hit third-quarter sales
Cisco has cut its yearly earnings forecast after COVID lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine dragged sales below third-quarter estimates. Read more…
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Cisco says its predictive analytics engine knows when your network will fail
Cisco says it will stick its predictive analytics engine in enterprise network products across its portfolio in “easy-to-use SaaS offers”. Read more…
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Cisco Systems says it’s winning Indian telco deals to replace Huawei gear
Cisco Systems claims that it has been winning business from Indian telecom operators to replace Huawei enterprise equipment. Read more…
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Webex claims record 324 million users in March, Cisco happy
Cisco’s video-conferencing app Webex registered a record 324 million attendees in March, with usage more than doubling in the Americas. Read more…
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Telstra, Cisco make 5G call over packetised fronthaul network
Telstra and Cisco have completed what they claim is the world’s first ‘5G Sub 6GHz radio call over a packetised fronthaul network (X-HAUL)’. Read more…
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Cisco’s technology strategy for building a new internet
Cisco has unveiled further details behind its technology strategy for building a new internet. Read more…
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Cisco ushers in Wi-Fi 6 embracing new age of connectivity
Cisco has announced innovative solutions aimed to help customers embrace a new age of wireless connectivity. Wi-Fi 6 is the new standard for Wi-Fi. Read more…
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Virtualization is moving to the edge for Red Hat and Cisco
Virtualization is moving to the edge and the Red Hat / Cisco partnership has its first full scale operator going with this model. Read more…
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Ooredoo Myanmar taps Cisco to develop enterprise services
Ooredoo Myanmar and Cisco have entered an alliance that will enable the operator to offer digital enterprise services in areas such as network-as-a-service (NaaS), collaboration, cybersecurity, and training to local businesses. Under the agreement, Cisco Read more…
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Cisco to offer tools to help customers run apps on AWS
(Reuters) – Networking gear maker Cisco Systems said on Thursday it is teaming with Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer software tools that would make it easier for Cisco’s customers to use Amazon’s data Read more…
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New Cisco server is designed specifically for AI and ML
Cisco Systems has unveiled its first server built from the ground up for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads. AI and ML can open up new ways for enterprises to solve complex problems, Read more…
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Experian taps Cisco’s ACI to standardize and automate its data centers
Cisco announced that its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) will serve as the foundation for Experian’s data centers and colocation sites around the globe. With a standardized, integrated network architecture, Experian will be able to consistently Read more…
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Cisco investors freak on rumor AWS may sell own network switches
(Reuters) – Shares of Cisco Systems and other network equipment makers fell on Friday after a report that Amazon.com’s cloud services business was considering selling its own network switches to business customers at much lower Read more…
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Intent-based networking PR blitz: Huawei, Cisco, Apstra
Intent-based networking is the hot new buzzword for networking vendors. The mission statement: data center operators must shift from a manual network management model to an automated one where the network detects the ‘intent’ behind Read more…
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Cisco simplifies Colt’s network with segment routing and EVPN
Cisco and Colt Technology Services announced that they have upgraded Colt’s pan-European, US and Asian packet network with segment routing and Ethernet VPN (EVPN) capabilities. Cisco and Colt revealed in December 2016 that they were Read more…
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Cisco unveils new tools to enable intent-based SD-WAN visibility
Cisco has announced new analytics and assurance solutions it says are designed to bring visibility and “intent-based” networking to IT’s biggest blind spot: the WAN. The new solutions include SD-WAN vAnalytics, which provide IT with Read more…
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Cisco wants to help 5G RAN outsiders take on the establishment
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Cisco Systems said on Sunday it aims to disrupt the wireless radio access market led by Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia by backing challengers who make more flexible software versions of traditional mobile Read more…
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Cloud apps will drive 95% of data center traffic by 2021: Cisco
Cloud traffic will represent 95% of total data center traffic by 2021 as cloud service adoption creates new data center demands, according to Cisco’s latest Global Cloud Index. The seventh annual report says that both Read more…
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Apple and Cisco to offer cyber insurance discounts to customers
(Reuters) – Apple and Cisco Systems have teamed up with insurer Allianz SE to offer discounts on cyber insurance to businesses that primarily use equipment from both technology companies, they said on Monday. The arrangement, Read more…