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carry out personalized set-up of products in Scotland to superfast broadband by one of the first mobile providers in the UK
and services that are most critical to the summer 2020 at no extra cost, BT is to launch 5G mobile plans, ahead of other
running of each customer’s business. giving customers faster, more reliable major networks, giving businesses faster,
BT supports thousands of SMEs in connections – boosting their average more reliable mobile connections. Built
Scotland who play an important part in the speeds from around 10Mbps to 50Mbps on the EE 5G network, the first and largest
economic success of the nation. Ensuring and providing better Wi-Fi through in the UK, customers in Edinburgh and
that businesses can best take advantage upgraded Smart Hubs. BT has also stopped Glasgow can now enjoy speeds typically
of digital services, BT is investing and selling standard broadband connections 100-150 Mbps faster than 4G connections
using its local presence to provide the best on the legacy BT copper network to 90% even in the busiest areas. EE has 5G in
collaboration, connectivity, and security of the UK. For the 10% that cannot get more places in the UK than other network,
services, with 24/7 customer support superfast connections today, BT will use and is targeting 5G connectivity in 45 UK
anywhere in the world through new all available technologies to provide the cities and large towns by the end of the
business support teams. By upgrading fastest connections possible including 4G year.
more than 70,000 homes and businesses and 5G broadband, and full fiber. BT was

Cisco Unveils Plan for Building Internet for the
Next Decade of Digital Innovation

Cisco has unveiled further details behind OneTM, the industry’s only networking Our latest solutions in silicon, optics
its technology strategy for building a new silicon architecture of its kind; released and software represent the continued
internet — one designed to push digital the new Cisco 8000 Series, the world’s innovation we’re driving that helps our
innovation beyond the performance, most powerful carrier class routers built customers stay ahead of the curve and
economic and power consumption on the new silicon; and announced new create new, ground-breaking experiences
limitations of current infrastructure. A purchasing options that enable customers for their customers and end users for
multi-year approach that is defining to consume the company’s technology decades to come.”
the Internet for decades to come, through disaggregated business models. Building Blocks for the Internet for the
Cisco’s strategy is already delivering “Innovation requires focused investment, Future
technology breakthroughs to pave the the right team and a culture that values Over the next decade, digital experiences
way for the world’s developers to create imagination,” said Chuck Robbins, will be created with advanced technologies
applications and services they have only chairman and CEO of Cisco. “We are — virtual and augmented reality, 16K
begun to imagine.Cisco introduced its dedicated to transforming the industry streaming, AI, 5G, 10G, quantum computing,
latest innovation including Cisco Silicon to build a new internet for the 5G era. adaptive and predictive cybersecurity,
intelligent IOT, and others not yet invented.
These future generations of applications
will drive complexity beyond the
capabilities current internet infrastructure
can viably support. For the past five years,
Cisco has driven a technology strategy
that is building the internet our customers
will need for the future success of their
business in an advanced digital world.
Aimed at solving the toughest problems
that will emerge as digital transformation
taxes current infrastructure to its breaking
point, this strategy will lead to the next-
generation of internet infrastructure that
combines Cisco’s new silicon architecture
with its next-generation of optics. Cisco’s
strategy will change the economics behind
how the internet will be built to support
the demands of future, digital applications
and will enable customers to operate

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