Cisco Redesigns Internet Infrastructure to Support a More Inclusive Future

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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cisco Live -- \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nNews Summary\nCisco 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 today 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. \nLiving 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 globe1. \nThe 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 20232. 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. \n\"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 netwo...

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