Yvette Kanouff

Kanouff has been leading Cisco’s service provider business since March 2016—redesigning how it operates, and unifying global software and hardware engineering teams. When she looks at growth opportunities, she turns to how technology can disrupt. For the year ahead, she believes business services will be big given the growth potential. “On the technology side, I think we will see our broadband architecture begin to shift to new levels of scale with Remote PHY and CMTS virtualization,” she says.

What industry topic do you think will dominate industry headlines in 2018 and why?

Enterprise and SMB due to our growth opportunity in this area. On the technology side, I think we will see our broadband architecture begin to shift to new levels of scale with Remote PHY and CMTS virtualization.  

What is one way the industry can continue to evolve in ridding itself of gender discrimination?

If every person sponsored one minority. not mentoring, but real sponsorship, our numbers would be impacted significantly. 

What famous woman, living or deceased, would you like to have dinner with?

Angela Merkel.

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