Cisco's cloud-native broadband router could be a game changer for cable

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Cisco announced the debut of its cloud-native broadband router, which is a containerized, software reboot of traditional converged cable access platform (CCAP) hardware.  The new cloud-native broadband router is notable on several levels, the first being that it's further proof that Cisco has moved beyond its roots as just a vendor of hardware boxes. With cloud-native, carriers can split disaggregated systems into even smaller, independent microservice functions that can scale up or down as needed. Cloud-native also improves efficiencies while allowing operators to turn on new services in a fraction of the time it takes today. Web-scale providers—mainly Google, Facebook and Amazon—have largely pioneered cloud-native through the use of containers, microservices, automation, orchestration and continuous integration.


Cisco's cloud-native broadband router could be a game changer for cable