Cisco Accelerates Advancements on IP Networks for Service Providers

Cisco Systems® today announced new products, features, and customer wins that demonstrate its continued momentum in delivering innovative Internet Protocol Next-Generation Networks (IP NGN) to service providers worldwide, increasing their ability to deliver innovative new services, improving their operational and capital expenditure efficiencies, and advancing the value-added network and service control carriers need for long-term business success.

"With this announcement, Cisco shows its strong commitment to innovation at each layer of IP NGN," said Mark Bieberich, Director, Communications Network Infrastructure at the Yankee Group.

Adding to the extensive existing Cisco IP NGN architecture and portfolio, these recent innovation announcements are focused around two of the three primary areas of convergence which are already well established in service provider networks today:

Service convergence or "triple play on the move" - where increased application and subscriber-level service control intelligence is needed to facilitate the efficient and profitable delivery of voice, video, data and mobility services for wireline and wireless convergence. To achieve true service convergence, providers must be able to operate, bill, and manage a service over a range of access mediums.