Cisco says its new SDN solution will cut network costs by 56% and maintenance by 21%

Cisco said its Elastic Access software and hardware, a new SDN solution, will assist telecoms to cut network deployment costs by 56 percent and maintenance costs by 21 percent.

In addition, the enterprise IT vendor promises that global telecoms can also launch new applications and services such as cloud-based managed business services, bandwidth-on-demand and consumer mobile broadband. These new telecom solutions can enable better agility and profitability, helping service providers.

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Cisco said the new software-defined networking (SDN)-enabled Cisco Elastic Access portfolio uses virtualization, programmability, economical scale and architectural convergence in the access segment of the network to enhance revenue and profit of telecom operators.

Cisco Elastic Access portfolio includes new platforms for addressing service provider carrier Ethernet and mobile backhaul solutions; Cisco ME 4600 series multiservice optical access platform; Cisco ASR 902 and ASR 920; Cisco ME 1200 Ethernet access device; virtualized elastic access management, said Cisco in a statement.

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