Medianet is the architecture for video and the architecture has two very simple concepts:
- Horizontal integration:
Deliver a consistent experience - Vertical integration:
Build intelligence into the network
Medianet – Horizontal and Vertical Integration
IPv6 Internet Announced, IP Address Apocalypse Called Off
Although we released this some time ago, not long before the run out of IPv4 addresses we thought we’d repost it again given the announcement earlier in the week of the launch date for the IPv6 Internet. The great news is with the IPv6 Internet happening on June 6, 2012 there is no need to fight your colleagues for IP addresses or hide under your desk. Provided, of course, that your network architect or IT Read More »
Tags: 6rd, cgv6, IPv6, Service Provider, v6 world congress, World IPv6 Day
As Hospitals Accommodate Technological Expansion, Could Telepresence Do More?
January 19, 2012 at 10:22 am PST
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As hospitals and health systems continuously adapt to the changing healthcare needs and practices of the 21st century, technology takes on an ever-expanding role. According to the Hospital Providers on the Move report, completed by SK&A healthcare marketing company, audio visual and media systems accounted for one of the fastest expanding employment areas between March 2010 and March 2011 at healthcare establishments across the country.
We’ve seen how audio and visual media, especially telepresence, have helped patients access difficult-to-reach doctors for illnesses ranging from Parkinson’s disease to psychiatric disorders. Perhaps the hiring increase for Directors of Audio Visual/Media Services indicates that even more hospitals have found technology like telepresence can enhance patient care. Read More »
Tags: telehealth, telemedicine, video conferencing, videoconferencing
John Chambers to Keynote at Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 is now less than two months away and the mobile industry is shifting into high gear! From now until the booths come down and the Fira Barcelona goes silent, it’s full speed ahead.
No one is more excited about Cisco’s mobility story—and our presence at MWC 2012—than Chairman and CEO John Chambers. As he often says, “mobility is the killer app” and the biggest of all the Read More »
Tags: Cisco, john chambers, mobile cloud, mobile world congress, mobility, Service Provider
Keep passwords safe and secure with password management
A password manager can encourage users to adopt unbreakable passwords
As users, we know that we should use complex, secure passwords that aren’t easily guessed words from the dictionary like ”admin” or personal dates to protect our systems. Nonsensical words and phrases that substitute digits and symbols for letters, such as ”45Monk3y t1m3 fun!,” are the most secure. But we also know how difficult it can be to create several unique, strong passwords—and even harder to remember them all.
To encourage employees to create passwords that are hard to crack but easily remembered and used, you can provide them with a password management system. Password management is both a standard company-wide policy for developing passwords, and, for many companies, a password manager application you add to your security arsenal as part of your small business security policy.
Tags: passwords, password_management, security, small_business