CISCO is upholding its strategy to help communication service providers and web scale companies around the world to connect, secure and automate their networks to deliver a stronger, more accessible internet.
With the ongoing pandemic, people and businesses around the world rely on connection capabilities, turning the need for internet from a ‘must-have’ to a critical lifeline.
In fact, apart from an increased utilisation of remote healthcare services, streaming videos and gaming caused the internet traffic to spike up to 25% to 45% in many regions across the world.
While there hasn’t been much problems with the capabilities of networks so far, Cisco Cisco predicts this is only a glimpse of the traffic volume the world will see in the 5G era, with 29.3 bil connected devices expected by 2023.
Regardless of that, the internet architecture needs continuous care and attention to support the world’s ambitions. The need to build the networks’ infrastructure is critical.
“Cisco has spent the last five years researching and investing in this portfolio of innovation. By helping our customers make the right decisions for their networks today, we are setting the world up for success, to connect more people, places and things than ever before,” Cisco senior vice president and general manager for mass-scale infrastructure group Jonathan Davidson.
In taking on the challenge of growing and extending the internet to more areas, Cisco designed an innovative blueprint known as the Converged SDN Transport to help service providers converge multiple networks into a common infrastructure on an enormous scale.
Apart from that, Cisco has also been working with leading communication service providers and web scale companies to design the building blocks for the internet for the future.
“Historically, building and operating a multi-layer architecture has always been a challenge. But thanks to game-changing innovations, complex layers can finally converge into a simpler and more scalable architecture with evolving cost structures and efficiencies,” said Telia Carrier chief evangelist Mattias Fridström.
“We expect communication service providers to aggressively transition existing metro and long-haul networks in the coming year,” he added. – Apr 1, 2021
