UPDATE -- Cisco Accelerates Growth for Service Providers with New Silicon and Software for the 5G and Multicloud Era
11 Septiembre 2018 - 07:22AM
UPDATE -- Cisco Accelerates Growth for Service Providers with New
Silicon and Software for the 5G and Multicloud Era
As the world continues to embrace the reality of 5G and multicloud,
service providers are experiencing disruptive growth and change
that require new approaches to more efficiently build and
cost-effectively manage critical IP networking infrastructure.
5G connections are expected to explode from 2.3 million in 2020
to more than 25 million in 2021 -- more than 1000-percent growth1.
Multicloud services are accelerating, driven by shifts in content,
compute and cloud requirements. Nearly 850 zettabytes of data will
be generated by all people, machines and things by 2021, up from
220 ZB in 20162.
How IP networks are architected and built through these
transitions is critical for sustaining service provider
profitability during this period of explosive traffic growth.
Enter CiscoCisco is focused on creating
networks that anticipate and respond to customer needs and shifting
market conditions in real time, based on closed-loop automation and
advanced analytics capabilities.
Today the company is unveiling continued innovation for its
flagship service provider edge routing platform to support its
customers’ business transitions, offering more flexibility with new
licensing models to purchase capacity on demand.
Cisco ASR 9000: Better, Stronger,
FasterIn the past ten years, more than 4500 service
provider, enterprise and public sector customers around the world
have relied on the Cisco ASR 9000 edge routing platform to manage
and deliver billions of connections over their networks.
Now the same edge routing platform thousands
have grown to know and trust can carry them into the 5G and
multicloud era with new automation software, a new networking
processor powering high-density 100GE line cards to boost network
performance, and enhancements to the IOS XR network operating
system.
Continued Investment Protection with IOS
XR Software Flexible Consumption ModelService providers
are building their IP infrastructures with end-to-end architecture
evolution in mind to support multiple revenue-generating services,
as well as preparing for inevitable shifts in traffic. To support
these goals, Cisco is now offering network-wide pay-as-you-grow
license pooling, allowing ports on the new-generation line cards to
be activated on-demand, within deployed or new ASR 9000
chassis.
Customers no longer have to forecast capacity
and purchase licenses on a site-by-site basis. Licenses can be
dynamically allocated as across global networks, optimizing capex
spend and simplifying capacity planning with a full network
view.
Primed for Automation to Reduce
Operational ExpendituresPowered by Cisco IOS XR software,
the ASR 9000 is automation ready. Service providers can now take
advantage of the Cisco Crosswork Network Automation portfolio, the
industry’s most comprehensive closed-loop, mass-scale automation
solution that embraces multi-vendor networks. Architecture plus
automation now primes Cisco customers for the most optimal cost
footprint with operational agility.
“With these advancements to the Cisco ASR
platform, we are simplifying, automating and converging our
networking technology for the 5G and multicloud era,” said
Sumeet Arora, senior vice president of engineering, Service
Provider Network Systems, Cisco. “We are committed to
helping our customers deliver better experiences for their
customers, enabling them to optimize the capex spend with an easy
roadmap for network planning purchasing and optimization.”
Cisco is leading the disruption in the industry with its
technology innovations in systems, silicon, optics, and security,
and its unrivalled expertise in mass-scale networking,
automation, optical, cable access, and mobility. Together with
our portfolio of professional services, we enable service
providers, media, and web companies to reduce cost and complexity,
secure their networks, and grow revenue.
Supporting resources
- Cisco ASR 9000 Series Routers
- Sumeet Arora Blog: ‘Cisco ASR 9000 Reloaded For Mass Scale
Networking’
- Video: Cisco ASR 9000: The 4th Generation is Better than Ever
on TechWiseTV
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1 Cisco VNI Mobile Forecast, 2016-2021
2 Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology,
2016–2021