We are faced with challenges and driven by opportunities. Our job at Cisco Live Berlin was to show and demonstrate how we:
Cisco's strategy is to enable service providers to drive profitable business outcomes in a digital world. Cisco is an agent in:
Our goal at Cisco Live was to deliver proof points to the above through the selection of the demonstrations that we had prepared for the event. We had business level demonstrations such as Visual Networking Index (VNI), Monetization and Optimization Index (MOI), Virtualization Orchestration Strategy (Evolved services platform), and Connected Analytics demos -all meant to paint a solid picture of the trends, opportunities, and architectures.
We had a fair share of technical deep-dive demos that complemented our business-level demos. We attempted to bring a comprehensive collection of demos to help service providers in their journey. Below is a list of the technologies that were also demoed in the service provider booth. We broke down the list into five categories that map onto the Cisco SP Strategy:
1.Evolved Programmable Network with new Cloud Scale Innovations
2.EvolvedServices Platform with Orchestration and Management Software
3. Cisco Cloud Architecturefor Microsoft Cloud Platform
4. Applications
5.Security
So putting it altogether, we had four business level demonstrations and 20 technical demonstrations that went in depth of what has been shown at the high-level demos.
The above products and solutions have provided a full gamut of capabilities and exemplified Cisco Open Network Strategy. All of these demos presented powerful mapping of Cisco's capabilities and the opportunities that will allow service providers to be successful in their transformation. And now they have been validated by an independent testing agency "EANTC". LightReading commissioned the European Advanced Networking Test Center team to evaluate Cisco's NFVI solution late last year and their full report is available here.
We also brought with us racks of equipment with the latest routers such as NCS 1002, NCS 5001, and NCS 5002-all part of Cloud Scale innovations. We also had on display NCS 2000 and NCS 4000 optical gear as well as access and aggregation gear: ASR 9904, ASR 907, and ASR 920.
We had a great turnout in the SP booth fostering great discussions on all of the topics mentioned above. These solutions are now available and ready for deployment. Cisco is proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. We don't just dream it. We do it! The connection of people, process, data and things is driving dramatic changes in organizations, communications and business models. Networked connections are becoming more relevant and valuable than ever before. Cisco is emerging as a strong partner to transform your business.
I have been personally very excited while working with my team on preparing the service provider booth experience for you. For those of you who joined us in Berlin, I am glad you were able to learn firsthand about the service provider transformation opportunities. At the same time, I would like to welcome all of you and especially, those whose schedule did not allow them to be in Berlin, to join us at Cisco Live Las Vegas in July 2016. There are more and new announcements waiting for you just as additional examples of our service provider Open Network Strategy. In the meantime, we have put together a list of key collateral that will help you understand the SP strategy.