Cisco is pivoting its entire orientation to focus on cloud, software, subscription, services and selling solutions; transforming the way we go to market in parallel with our service provider customers and partners.
Grow Revenue
Delivered quickly and easily via the Cisco open service creation platform, Managed Services let you develop differentiated services to bring increased customer value. They enable you to increase SD-WAN (Viptela and Meraki) and other managed service revenues while controlling service operational costs. They also position you to scale up with additional services such as SD-Branch, SD-Access, Managed Device, Secure Network, and more. The benefits for service providers are lower costs to build and operate, improved customer experiences, and increased service velocity and agility.
Cisco aspires to make 5G enterprise services a reality. The solutions are designed to deliver 5G enterprise applications specific to industry pillars and company size, allowing you to monetize new opportunities.
Cisco can deliver segment routing across the architecture up to the application level; distributing this Software Defined Network (SDN) enabling technology into cell sites and business access points. Applications can now have strict, enforceable SLAs allowing them to run seamlessly across any type of access technology.
Reduce Cost
The Cisco 8000 Series router is the industry’s only platform optimized for 400G and beyond. It delivers unprecedented petabit scale, embedded trust, and cloud-enhanced software technology. Modular, purpose-built, and applicable to any network - mobile, cable and wireline - it helps you significantly reduce the costs of building and operating mass-scale networks, making them more secure and preparing them for 5G.
The latest release of IOS XR, IOS XR7, is a simpler operating system (OS) architecture which provides significant savings in resources. It simplifies operations by verifying upgrade cycles in a cloud enhanced environment. It provides advanced modularity and open API along with standard development environments, to integrate into new or existing operational workflows. Built on a trustworthy foundation, this architecture can prevent unauthorized code from running in, or across, the network.
Cisco Silicon One is a new programmable silicon architecture poised to power the Internet for the Future. The initial device in the family is the Q100 - the first routing silicon to break the 10Tbps barrier. This performance is double the bandwidth and triple the packets-per-second rate over other routing silicon solutions. The Silicon One family is a single, unified silicon architecture with comprehensive routing features and switching efficiency to power multiple platforms — fixed or modular — and addresses multiple segments.
Optics has become an increasing component of the total overall cost in service provider networks. Cisco has focused on reducing cost and accelerating adoption of standardized 400G optics across:
Cisco’s Segment Routing is stateless, enabling many different SLA across networks in an automated fashion to support smooth convergence of multiple services over the same infrastructure. Through an optimal absorption of the optical transport layer into routers through a ground-breaking new integrated pluggable, the convergence of network layers will be incredibly compelling with a drastically lower network-wide Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Cisco is working to help reduce your operational costs and extend the useful life of previous CapEx investments through automation. Combining hardware and software with synchronized programmability and automation tools means provisioning, day one operations, data configurations, and back-up and restore operations no longer take hours or days to complete. Automation simplifies the daily tasks for network engineers making them more productive and allowing them to focus on more critical work.
The IOS XR software in Cisco devices enables connectivity to any automation solution with Northbound APIs, while Southbound APIs connect the automation and orchestration tools to any device operating IOS XR.
Previous RAN approaches have been limited by single vendor lock-in, operational complexity, and a lack of architectural flexibility. This has resulted in the interest in developing Open vRAN. Cisco along with key partners is leading development efforts to make the RAN open, programmable, and more profitable.
Mitigate Risk
Cisco products are inherently built with security protections in mind. The routing and security products that Cisco offers are designed to share security contexts and threat information with third parties to allow faster detection and mitigation. Our security solutions harness the power of TALOS’ intelligence; the industry’s leading threat intelligence feed, which flows to each one of our products.
For service providers, building customer trust is essential to value. Loss of trust ends customer relationships forever, while strong trust creates loyalty and raises ARPU. A trustworthy foundation embeds security throughout the network directly into routers and other network devices. Trustworthiness starts with network devices that have a secure unique device identifiers (SUDI) for authentication. This information is used to create a root of trust anchored in hardware. This establishes a chain of trust that can be used to allow only genuine, unmodified software to boot on a Cisco platform. Cisco provides the opportunity for you to measure the authenticity of the Cisco hardware and software operating in your network so you can start with a verifiable infrastructure that you can trust to operate critical services.