Wired News – Cisco Collaborates with Orange to Expand Open Transit Internet Service

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Benefits of the Deal

This initiative offers Orange Group the chance to expand its network in Europe, Africa, and the Middle-East, with reduced operational complexity and increased capacity using the new generation of routers on its OTI service. The resulting increase in network efficiency will improve service for Orange customers and manage the exponential increase in Internet traffic across the network.
The Cisco® NCS first-to-market advantage offered Orange the means to execute its plans to prepare for 400G speeds. The Cisco® NCS offers many other advantages, including a reduction in the number of chassis to be managed, high port density, high performance forwarding, low jitter, and the lowest power consumption in terms of Gigabits/sec.

Cisco NCS 5500 Leverages the Industry-Leading IOS XR Operating System

The Network Convergence System 5500 Series is a family of routing platforms, including fixed and modular chassis. The platform offers high port density, high performance forwarding, low jitter, and the lowest power consumption per Gigabits/sec at a very cost-effective price point. NCS 5500 is designed to efficiently scale across Data Centers, Large Enterprise, Web, Service Provider WAN, and Aggregation Networks. It leverages the industry-leading IOS XR Operating System, offering market-leading software capabilities, including model-driven telemetry that provides deep insights into the real-time operation of the network; model-driven programmability and enhanced automation that offers extreme flexibility and speed to adapt to any operational environment; and application hosting that turns networking devices into a platform on top of which service providers can use their own tools and utilities.

Collaboration will Enable Orange to Reap Business Benefits of a Highly Reliable and Resilient Platform

Commenting on the collaboration, Sumeet Arora, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Service Provider Business, Cisco, mentioned that with Cisco NCS, Orange can reap the business benefits of a highly reliable and resilient platform to support its networking goals. Arora stated that Orange is now in a position to deliver higher bandwidth and a range of new functions and services that will give it more agility to innovate and compete.

Cisco and Samsung Teamed with Orange for First Multi-Vendor 5G Fixed Wireless Trial in Europe

In February 2018, Orange, Samsung Electronics, and Cisco collaborated on a 5G millimeter wave trial set to begin in the second half of 2018, across multiple homes in Romania. The trial marked Orange as the first operator to conduct a multi-vendor 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) customer trial in Europe. The trial will be set up as a multi-vendor environment, for a month-long period, in Romania. The Companies will demonstrate how 5G can complement existing fiber deployments to deliver high-quality, high-speed bandwidth services.

About Open Transit Internet (OTI)

OTI is a Tier 1 international Internet connectivity solution, offering direct access to the Internet networks in more than 100 countries through more than 50 points of presence (POPs), and targeting both Internet service providers and content providers. The customers benefit from a large range of interfaces and throughputs, as well as from guaranteed high-service availability.

About Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when connecting the previously unconnected. The Company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

About Orange S.A.

Headquartered in Paris, France, Orange provides a range of fixed telephony and mobile telecommunications, data transmission, and other value-added services to consumers, businesses, and other telecommunications operators in Europe, Africa, and the Middle-East.

Stock Performance Snapshot

April 25, 2018 – At Wednesday’s closing bell, Cisco Systems’ stock marginally dropped 0.07%, ending the trading session at $43.71.

Volume traded for the day: 20.31 million shares.

Stock performance in the last three-month – up 3.65%; previous six-month period – up 27.25%; past twelve-month period – up 30.79%; and year-to-date – up 14.13%

After yesterday’s close, Cisco Systems’ market cap was at $213.15 billion.

Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio was at 22.62.

The stock has a dividend yield of 3.02%.

The stock is part of the Technology sector, categorized under the Communication Equipment industry.

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