Cisco Redesigns Internet Infrastructure to Support a
More Inclusive Future
- Cisco continues to lead on creating the ‘Internet for
the Future’ for the 5G era across silicon, routing and optical, network
automation and more.
- Cisco working with top service providers and web scale
companies to redesign their networks, making the internet and all it has
to offer accessible to more people than ever before.
- Cisco is changing the economics of the internet with a
new Routed Optical Networking solution featuring Acacia pluggable optics
and Cisco’s full mass-scale routing portfolio, with estimated savings of
up to 46% of total cost.
Cisco announced its strategy to help communication service providers and web scale
companies around the world connect, secure and automate their networks to
deliver a stronger, more accessible internet to everyone, everywhere,
regardless of geographic limitations.
Living in the pandemic, people,
businesses, governments and communities have come to rely on the power of
connections to keep the world running. The internet went from being a
must-have, to a critical lifeline for most everyone to connect to information,
and each other. Video conferencing skyrocketed as people were forced to work
from home and into online learning. Together with remote healthcare services,
streaming video, gaming and more, internet traffic spiked by 25-45 percent in
many regions across the globe.
The networks powered through, but
Cisco predicts this is only a glimpse of the traffic volume we will see in the
5G era, with 29.3B connected devices expected in 2023.
Internet architecture needs continuous care and attention to support the
world’s ambitions. With over three billion people still without access to the
internet, a digital divide continues to develop where many are without access
to vital information, learning and opportunities. The need to transform how we
build networks is critical.
“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, Mass-Scale Infrastructure Group, Cisco. “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. We can all look back on this point in time in the next ten
years and celebrate how we rose to the challenge and did the right thing to
take care of the internet.”
Changing the Economics of the
Internet
Building networks to grow and extend
the internet to more areas has been a challenging process for network operators.
Answering the call, Cisco designed its Converged SDN Transport, an innovative
blueprint designed to help service providers converge multiple networks into a
common, cost efficient and secure infrastructure with enormous scale.
Today, Cisco is helping to further
simplify the constructs of the internet with its Routed Optical Networking
solution aimed at collapsing IP and Optical networks. With Acacia’s pluggable
coherent optics, advancements in Segment Routing and Ethernet VPN, and new
Cisco Crosswork Cloud capabilities, operators can build lean, efficient,
easy-to-operate networks capable of supporting the levels of traffic expected
with 5G.
New Innovation Powering the Internet
for the Future
Cisco has been working with leading
communication service providers and web scale companies including Airtel,
Altibox, Eolo, Facebook, Google Cloud, Rakuten Mobile, SFR, Telenor, Telia
Carrier, Telstra, Websprix and more to design the building blocks for the
‘Internet for the Future’, delivering greater efficiency, agility and savings
gains than ever before.
- Cisco
Silicon One With the introduction of its
networking silicon architecture, Silicon One™ in 2019, Cisco offers its
customers a unified, programmable silicon architecture designed to improve
operational efficiencies and deliver the speed and capacity for the 5G era. In
just 15 months Cisco has expanded the Cisco Silicon One platform from a routing
focused solution to one which also addresses the web scale switching market,
offering ten networking chips (devices) ranging from 3.2 Tbps to 25.6 Tbps,
making it the highest performance programmable routing and switching silicon on
the market.
- Subscriber
Management Cisco is introducing its new Cisco
Cloud Native Broadband Network Gateway for telco customers (wireline), joining
the Cisco family 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.
- Advancing the Access, Aggregation, Edge, and Core
Networks for Greater Performance
- Cisco’s latest 8000 family of routers now features
Cisco Silicon One Q200 series chips offering up to 14.4 Tbps total
capacity, enabling 32 and 64 x 100G web scale switches
- Introducing powerful new line cards and chassis for
the Cisco Aggregated Service Router (ASR) 9000 series and Network
Convergence System (NCS) 500 and 5500 series routers providing increased
capacity with capital and operational cost savings
- New Crosswork Network Controller (CNC) features help
customers operate the Cisco Routed Optical Networking solution
- Cisco
Crosswork Cloud Crosswork Cloud delivers a new
application called Traffic Analysis, offering a comprehensive view across
network peering points. With this insight, Traffic Analysis provides actionable
recommendations to optimize traffic at the network edge to help prevent impact
on the customer experience.
- Cisco
Business Critical Services Cisco
Business Critical Services helps customers looking to transform to Cisco's
Routed Optical Networking and Cloud Native Broadband solutions ensure a smooth
transition. With consulting on network architecture design and implementation
planning, Business Critical Services helps accelerate migration and mitigate
risk. New options within Specialized Expertise Scrum Services and
Expert-as-a-Service give customers access to powerful analytics and even
greater flexibility to choose skill sets to fuel their transitions.
Industry Response:
“Historically, building and
operating a multi-layer architecture has always been a challenge. Thanks to
game-changing innovations that span across silicon, routing systems and
standardized 400G coherent pluggable optics, complex layers can finally
converge into a simpler and more scalable architecture with evolving cost
structures and efficiencies. Telia Carrier has spearheaded this transition
leveraging building blocks such as the Cisco 8000 and NCS 5700, resulting in a
network that is easier to maintain, faster to adapt and cheaper to operate. We
expect communication service providers to aggressively transition existing metro
and long-haul networks in the coming year.” said Mattias Fridström, Chief
Evangelist, Telia Carrier.
"Today traffic growth is
non-stop, which makes the Cisco cloud-native BNG solution a real game-changer.
With BNGs distributed closer to end-users, we can achieve exponential scale in
our network without added operational complexity. It also supports more
distributed CDN locations which means we can deliver a greater end-user
experience and reduce core network traffic demand, resulting in better economics.
And finally, the move to a cloud-native model, with separate user and control
planes, will eventually support the delivery of access-agnostic services using
a converged wireline and 5G subscriber management solution." said
Per-Øyvind Ødegård, Chef Architect Infrastructure, Altibox
Source: Cisco media announcement