Cisco Live: Executive Panel
Nightingale, Robbins, executive vice president and GM of security and collaboration Jeetu Patel, Centoni, and executive vice president and GM of Cisco’s mass-scale infrastructure group Jonathan Davidson, fielded questions from the press.
An interesting line of dialogue occurred over the them of how Cisco regards itself in relationship to its technology partners. Particularly, what is the future of the telcos?
Davidson said Cisco will be helping the hyperscalers and carriers simplify increasingly complex networks.
“I think we’re going to see more of the hyperscalers putting their edges into the carrier’s networks. They’ll start with one, and fast-forward a few more years and all hyperscalers will be in all carriers’ networks. And the carriers will also have their own services. And we’re going to be offering our services on their edge,” he said.
