Accelerate Your Business Opportunities

Kevin J. Kennedy, former senior vice president of IOS technologies division and service provider line of business at Cisco Systems®, explains what makes Cisco the preferred partner and end-to-end architect for service providers.


The future of communications, both at home and in the workplace, is in Internet Protocol (IP) systems. Cisco Systems is dedicated to providing the infrastructure necessary to support IP technology and to enable a smooth transition from a subscriber telecommunications system to a packet-based communications transportation system. Such an infrastructure must be scalable; flexible enough to support innovative third-party applications; able to handle latency-sensitive traffic; capable of providing a consistent virtual profile across all media; and more.

Cisco can help service providers achieve their strategic and fiscal goals by offering focused support to optimize marketing efforts, as well as providing a valuable connection to the company’s broad customer base. Cisco encourages knowledge sharing and collaboration, and it offers best practices assistance from business leaders.

This 23-page, 4.5 MB PDF presentation, "Accelerate Your Business Opportunities," outlines the transition from time-division multiplexing (TDM) to an advanced packet-based communications transportation system, and traces the evolution of public switched telephone network (PSTN). It explores the systems and strategies service providers must embrace to become leaders in their field, and it summarizes the availability of a variety of networks, including DSL, IP, and optical.