Cisco
to Champion SDN (Software Defined Networking) and Virtualisation Technologies
at AfricaCom 2015
Cisco
Sponsors Event’s Inaugural Dedicated SDN & Virtualisation PoCs Theatre
Johannesburg, October 2015: With less than a month before the much anticipated AfricaCom 2015
begins, exhibitors and sponsors are preparing to deliver a host of exciting
activities, talks and presentations to the 10,000 expected delegates. Scheduled
to take place between the 17th and 19th November at the Cape
Town International Convention Centre, this year’s event theme will be innovation,
transformation and leadership for digital Africa.
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| Paolo Campoli, Cisco |
This year Cisco will be sponsoring the inaugural SDN (Software Defined
Networking) & Virtualisation PoCs theatre at AfricaCom 2015 in a bid to
show their commitment to fostering an entire ecosystem of young programmers,
talents and partners in Africa. Cisco will also use the new platform to
demonstrate the benefits of SDN in enabling African operators to accelerate
application deployment and delivery as well as dramatically reducing IT costs in
a practical, hands-on way.
A full programme of
demonstrations will be scheduled to take place at the SDN and Virtualisation
Theatre throughout the show’s 3 days. The theatre will also act as a networking
area for visitors. Paolo Campoli, Head of Middle East & Africa Global SP
Sales and SP CTO for the MEA Sales Region at Cisco says, “Cisco is sponsoring
the SDN Theatre at because in Africa, we’re already seeing strong demand for
SDN from industries with complex networks that need to quickly process large
amounts of data and this includes Service Providers in particular.”
In addition to a full schedule of PoC demos throughout AfricaCom within
the theatre, visitors can also look forward to innovative and insightful
keynote addresses around innovating for Africa’s digital future, new digital
models and sustaining profitability in Africa.
“In the wake of the
digitisation era, Cisco’s NFV (Network
Functions Virtualisation) architecture will help African Service
Providers to transform their networks to prepare for the new wave of the
internet and IoT. We have combined NFV with two complementary technology
initiatives namely Open Source to help free an organisation’s technical talent
to innovate and SDN which is enabling them to accelerate application deployment
and delivery whilst dramatically reducing IT costs,” says Campoli.
“SDN also enhances the benefits of data center virtualisation, increasing
resource flexibility and utilisation and reduces infrastructure costs and
overhead and enables network programmability and code development to bring
applications and networks closer. The result is a modern infrastructure that
can deliver new applications and services in minutes, rather than days or weeks
required in the past delivering with a platform capable of handling the most
demanding networking needs of today and tomorrow,” concludes Campoli.
NFV
and SDN offer new ways for telecom operators to design, build, operate and manage
information networks. Experts at the 2015 AfricaCom Conference will unpack
these very hot topics which are sure to generate some intense discussion.
For more details
about Cisco Software Defined Networking visit: http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/trends/sdn/
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