Cisco Live’s Service Provider program is designed to help technical engineers to product and marketing management.  It offers a unique mix of business and technical sessions in a forum that can help you find answers to the biggest questions facing today’s Service Providers. The program is suited for:

• Service Provider Engineers and Business Managers
• Service Provider Technical Individual Contributors
• Service Provider Technical Decision Makers
• Service Provider IT Managers
• Service Provider Marketing and Product Management

Cisco helps service providers build flexible, scalable, and secure networks that deliver profitable services for sustainable success. The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture supports medianet, mobile internet transformation, data center, and cloud computing solutions.

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.

Key engineers from data center, mobility, video, cloud and other Service Provider areas will be presenting technical sessions designed to help you gain the knowledge you need to remain competitive and to bring support the latest services demanded by consumer.

Service Provider Sessions and IP NGN (IP Next-Generation Network)

The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture supports medianet, mobile internet transformation, data center, and cloud computing solutions. Sessions will delve into the CRS-1, ARS Series and Nexus series to understand new advances and complex troubleshooting. Topics will also include Unified MPLS, SDN, IPoDWDM and services architectures.

Sessions include:

• High Speed Data Networks - 40G, 100G & Beyond
• Advances in IP+Optical
• Network APIs - Monetizing Network Intelligence
• Evolution of Service Provider Edge Architectures
• Deploying Carrier Ethernet Services on ASR 9000
• Designing Access Network With the ME3600X and ME3800X
• Securing Cisco ASR 9000 Routers
• Best Practices to Deploy High-Availability in Service Provider Edge and Aggregation Architectures
• IPv4 Exhaustion: NAT and Transition to IPv6 for Service Providers
• ASR9000: The Universal Cloud Gateway
• Network Services in IOS-XR
• ISSU on high-end routers

Service Provider Data Center and Cloud

Virtualization allows you to unify network and computing assets while 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. Topics will address Cloud services, software architecture and orchestration, open standards such as SDN, and cloud security.

Sessions include:

• Hosted Collaboration in Cloud
• Cloud Service Assurance for Virtualized Data Center and Hosted Applications
• Cloud orchestration in the Service Provider with Intelligent Automaton
• Hosted Collaboration Solution - Demystifying the UC Cloud
• Cisco's Cloud Ready Infastructure - VMDC
• Cloud Service Assurance for Virtualized Data Center and Hosted Applications
• ASR9000: The Universal Cloud Gateway
• Moving the Video Control Plane to the Cloud

Service Provider Mobility

The way we work, live, play, and learn continues to change dramatically, with mobility delivering a rich communications experience anytime, anywhere. Cisco VNI numbers show that mobile data is continuing its massive growth across the globe. Service Providers are increasingly turning to Cisco as a trusted source for both fixed and mobile networks for offering their customers a seamless Internet experience.

Cisco Live 2013 sessions are completely redesigned and have been structured to include representatives from Engineering, Technical Sales, and Services. Topics will examine how to deliver personalized services, optimization, and monetization. Experts will give share experience from recent deployments, innovations, and advances for LTE, EPC, SP Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi IPv6 design, and more. Attend these sessions to learn how Cisco can help you not only manage the rapid growth in mobile data, but profit from it as well.

Sessions include:

• Deploying Service Provider Wifi
• Design & Deployment of ASR5500 as SAE Gateways
• Unified MPLS transport and synchronization in mobile networks
• Monetization Architecture for Service Provider
• LTE Roaming Design and Deployment
• Small Cell Technologies
• M2M for Mobility Networks
• LTE Policy and Charging Control Architecture

Service Provider Video

We’ll address the following questions: how to optimize and monetize existing infrastructure, how to manage big data such as video over existing networks, how to accelerate the delivery of content, and how to balance network loads. Attend these sessions to understand how to enrich the experience through services and features subscribers are looking for, maximize the value of your content and deliver new services at a rapid pace.

Sessions include:

• IP Video Evolution
• Designing an Online Video Service
• Video Transport Architectures
• IPTV, Internet Video and Adaptive Streaming Technologies
• Media Data Centers for SPs and Broadcasters - Evolution to a Media Cloud
• Mobile Video: Designing and Deploying the Next Generation Experience

Business Sessions

Learn how Cisco Live extends the education for business leaders. SP leaders are rethinking how they deliver technology across their business, and in particular, cloud services are emerging as a primary component in their strategy.

Sessions include:

• Special Interest Program: Monetizing the Cloud Network TCO & ROI Analysis
• Monetizing The Internet of Everything: How Will it Impact Our World?
• Transport Evolution in SP Core Networks
• Hybrid Clouds: Integrating the Enteprise Data Center and the Public Cloud
• Building Service Provider Virtual Private clouds for Enterprises & SMBs - IaaS Smart Solution
• The Next Generation Internet: Enabling the Internet of Everything for Service Providers
• Videoscape Economics- Monetizing and optimizing Multiscreen services
• Mobile Data for Service Providers

To get a glimpse into the 2012 Service Provider program, click on any of the links below. You will be taken to the session in Cisco Live 365 where you can click on the "View Session" link. You will need to login or register to view the videos.

Leave plenty of time to visit our partners and exhibitors in the World of Solutions. Look for an expanded presence of Service Provider partners and exhibitors.

Plan on attending the numerous social opportunities throughout the week, including some Service Provider only receptions to enhance your networking opportunities.

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