SAN JOSE, Calif. — As it looks to help build what it calls the “Internet for the Future”, Cisco announced Tuesday its strategy to help communication service providers and web-scale companies “connect, secure and automate their networks to deliver a stronger, more accessible internet to everyone, everywhere, regardless of geographic limitations,” the company says.
Cisco made several product announcements during its Cisco Live day spanning across its silicon, routing and optical networking, and cloud-native technologies. The company says it has been working with top service providers, such as Airtel, Altibox, Eolo, Facebook, Google Cloud, Rakuten Mobile, SFR, Telenor, Telia Carrier, Telstra and Websprix, to design the “building blocks” for a redesigned Internet infrastructure that will deliver “greater efficiency, agility and savings gains than ever before,” according to the company’s press release.
“Cisco has spent the last five years researching and investing in this portfolio of innovation, focusing on how to help our customers deliver the best internet, while being able to grow revenue, reduce their costs and mitigate risk,” said Jonathan Davidson, senior vice-president and general manager of Cisco’s mass-scale infrastructure group, in the release.
One of the new products Cisco announced is a new Routed Optical Networking solution featuring Acacia pluggable optics. At the beginning of March, Cisco announced it had completed its acquisition of Acacia, a company that designs and manufactures high-speed, optical interconnect technologies.
Cisco also announced yesterday it has expanded its Silicon One architecture (first introduced in 2019) from a routing-focused solution to one which also addresses the web-scale switching market. The Silicon One platform now offers 10 networking chips (devices) ranging from 3.2 terabits per second (Tbps) to 25.6 Tbps, “making it the highest performance programmable routing and switching silicon on the market,” says Cisco.
For wireline telco customers, Cisco introduced the new Cisco Cloud Native Broadband Network Gateway, which joins Cisco’s portfolio of existing cloud-native broadband routers for cable and mobile. “It paves the way for convergence to a unified subscriber management solution, bringing further simplification and efficiency while enabling service providers to offer truly access-agnostic services independent from where people use these services,” reads Cisco’s press release.
In addition, Cisco has added new capabilities to Cisco Crosswork Cloud, including a new Traffic Analysis application offering a comprehensive view across network peering points.
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