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March 22, 2016, 02:33 PM EDT

Service Provider Veteran Ahuja Out, Kanouff In

Yvette Kanouff (pictured), senior vice president and general manager for Cisco's Cloud Solutions, will now lead "an expanded" Service Provider (SP) organization that combines the SP segment, SP cloud, mobility and SP video Software and Solutions organization, according to Robbins.

Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president of Cisco's Service Provider Business, Products and Solutions, is leaving after an 18-year stint with the vendor. Ahuja was responsible for developing and managing the company's service provider strategy and portfolio within Cisco's Development organization. Robbins said Ahuja has been "critical to our success."

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