Basics

Network Infrastructure

Enhance Your Network Infrastructure

The tremendous IP traffic growth is fueled by new media applications and customer demand for more interactivity, personalization, mobility, and video. Cisco Network Infrastructure solutions let you deliver personalized, next-generation services and media experiences anywhere, anytime. The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) helps enable end-to-end scale, resiliency, and efficiency so you can deliver the Connected Life. Our solutions provide a multiservice convergence platform so you can serve residential, business, and mobile customers with a single network infrastructure and:

• Lower capital and operating costs
• Reduce time to market
• Capture new revenue opportunities

Learn more with the White Paper: Deliver on the Future of the Internet

Service Provider Data Center and Virtualization

Realize the Power of Virtualization

Service providers globally are in major transition due to broadband ubiquity, service delivery via web portals, and economic pressures. Virtualization promises to address key issues in service delivery, but previous approaches have not fulfilled the promise. Cisco has a new holistic approach to virtualization:

• Unifying network and computing assets
• Addressing security and application performance

This approach realizes the power of virtualization to help fulfill the promise and create greater application openness and opportunity for you and your customers. Discover a new strategic narrative and become a central link in the value chain of high-value service delivery.

Managed Services for Service Providers

Build Revenue with Managed Services

Grow revenue, create deeper and more loyal relationships, and reach new segments by offering Cisco managed services to your enterprise and small business customers. By offering managed services you can:

• Increase wallet share
• Improve customer intimacy
• Reduce customer turnover
• Lower the chances of commoditization
• Improve your defense against competition from Virtual Network Operators, System Integrators, and outsourcers
• Increase return on invested capital

Media, Satellite, and Broadcast

Media Production and Delivery Solutions

Today's media production and delivery landscape is changing rapidly. In the traditional media value chain, content is created for a single channel and broadcast to millions of viewers. Today, rich media services go to individual customers, wherever they are, through a variety of devices. With Cisco media production and delivery solutions, your mediatnet can:

• Reduce costs of content production and distribution
• Deliver content to more consumers over more platforms
• Increase revenues through new advertising and business models
• Strengthen your brand among consumers

Learn more with this Solution Overview: Transforming the Video Experience with Medianet

Mobile Operators

Gain Customers in the Mobile Internet Market

Cisco can help you cost-effectively scale your network, develop new business models and enhance the customer experience to capture the mobile Internet market opportunity. Advanced 3G and 4G networks are moving to IP. Cisco helps you deliver an exceptional customer experience across locations, devices, and technologies:

• All-IP architectures facilitate speedy deployment of new mobile Internet devices and applications
• Integrated, end-to-end architectures promote cost efficiencies and high performance gains
• Cost-effective backhaul creates significant savings
• Greater visibility and control through subscriber and application awareness make network management easier

Read the White Paper: Scaling the Mobile Internet to learn more

Cable Operators

Transform Your Network into a Medianet

Consumers today want personal, social and interactive experiences, with content delivered anytime, anywhere, on any device. The resulting bandwidth explosion is straining the network infrastructure, however. Intelligent networks, or medianets, provide the massive scaling, capital and operational cost optimization, and transformed consumer experience that cable operators need.

Cisco solutions help cable operators:

• Evolve their network to a medianet
• Make their infrastructure network-, endpoint-, and media-aware
• Deliver a new generation of IP-based services

Learn More: Transform Your Network to Meet Tomorrow's Demands

Wireline Carriers

Next-Generation Service from Wireline Carriers

Wireline carriers strive to differentiate their portfolios through innovation and leadership. Cisco provides comprehensive network infrastructure and IPTV solutions to help wireline carriers deliver a new generation of dynamic, personalized services and media experiences. The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) and medianet offerings help wireline carriers converge all services within a single infrastructure to:

• Reduce costs
• Facilitate new capabilities
• Meet the growing bandwidth and quality requirements of business, residential, and mobile customers
• Optimize the delivery of video services to redefine the IPTV experience

Read a real-world example in this Case Study: Statewide Optical Network Delivers Unmatched Agility and Capacity