Using well-known network attributes like IP address or TCP/UDP port numbers for application identification and network classification is a thing of the past. More and more applications are opaque (e.g. video streams) and increasingly, applications are encrypted making network classification a real challenge for enterprises.
Introducing Media Awareness
Medianet media awareness is a suite of technologies to detect different types of endpoints, media and application types in order to deliver the best experience. The network can try to figure it out (implicit), or the network can be told by the endpoint or applications (explicit).
Throughout its history, Hollywood has been known for using and featuring some of the most advanced technology in its films. On May 18, Universal Studios’ latest film, Battleship, will be next on the list to showcase how far technology has come – featuring Cisco TelePresence front and center to connect scientists, NASA and the U.S. Air Force when it really matters. Take a look for yourself: Read More »
Screenmedia Expo is your chance to find out how to create compelling new signage experiences that drive business value.
Come visit us at Gallery Level -- Room 1 to learn more about Cisco Digital Signage, a complete platform for interactive experiences in place. See first-hand the latest innovations and hear examples of how other organizations around the world are deploying video to revolutionize their business processes and communications.
Join us for breakfast and lunch on May 16th and 17th and hear Cisco executives discuss trends in the market.
Enterprise video is truly becoming pervasive. According to Gartner, 82 percent of business executives record business videos on a daily basis, and by 2016 large companies will stream more than 16 hours of video per worker each month.
That’s a lot of video. But let’s face it – all enterprise video is not created equal. So how do you increase the relevance of video instead of just adding it to the list of data people need to navigate through every day?
Join Cisco for a free videocast series that explores these issues and more.
This 3-part videocast series begins May 24 with a discussion of the latest video analytics technology.
The cost of crime to local economies around the world is well documented.
Multiple Command Centers - One Platform
Often the true cost of crime, fraud, theft, cybersecurity attacks, etc. extends far beyond an individual victim or incident to create large ripple effects across societies, communities, and systems - financial markets, housing, healthcare, the economy, the job market, education, and more. Higher costs for businesses and communities are often realized as higher costs of services such as liability and insurance rates, reduced property values leading to lost tax revenues, and hampered ability to attract residents and employers to a city.
Over 250 registered, and more than 100 attended the May 3rdWebinar: Inside Baltimore’s Inter-Agency Video Surveillance Solution. The session was presented by Lieutenant Sam Hood, Director of Law Enforcement Operations for “Citiwatch”, Baltimore Police Department, Stephan Waters, Director of Technical Operations for “Citiwatch”, Baltimore Police Department, Michael O’Dea, Vice President of Business Partnerships, VidSys Inc., and Geoff Kohl, Editor of SecurityInfoWatch.Com, who discussed the outcomes of this project and collaboration between 20 federal, state and local agencies as well a private organizations.
Medianet integrates a smarter network with smarter endpoints to simplify the deployment and operation of various media and applications, and to enhance the quality of experience. You can find all you need to deploy medianet capabilities in the Medianet Knowledge Base, including a deployment guide which guides you step by step on how to deploy and use medianet capabilities.
But if you want to get your hands dirty and learn by doing we will have a fun lab (both for the student and proctors) in the next Cisco Live in San Diego. The lab is based on real physical equipment (routers, switches, MCUs, video surveillance cameras, etc.), video applications (Jabber for Windows, CP-9971 phones, Video Surveillance, WebEx and Digital Signage) and Network Management. You will get a chance to see a real working video enabled branch that they control and get an introduction to the many medianet features like performance monitor, mediatrace, IPSLA Video Operations, Auto Smart Ports, QoS, and now Media Services Interface (MSI), Flow Metadata and Media Services Proxy (MSP)!
So we’re about seven weeks away from Cisco Live San Diego (yes, I do have a countdown clock next to my desk).
In case you missed it, we’re offering product sessions this year so you can learn more about how Cisco Video and Collaboration solutions can help you address some of the trending IT challenges. Don’t miss out on these sessions and be sure to add them to your schedule!
PSOCOL-4000: Engaging Today’s Empowered Customers Using Innovative Collaboration and Video Solutions
PSOCOL-4001: Architecting the Optimal Foundation for UC, Collaboration and Video
PSOEVT-4002: Delivering Operational Excellence with Collaboration and Video Applications from the Cloud
PSOEVT-3500: Ensuring Video Interoperability in a World of Multiple Standards
PSOCOL-3501: Collaboration in a Post PC World: Work Your Way
We collectively watch over 3 billion hours of video a month on YouTube alone. And it’s not just crazy kitty antics or babbling babies: among my video-related tasks this week, I learned how to change a faucet, caught up on some interesting TED talks, and reviewed the latest product meeting for an upcoming release.
Each of these required searching for videos, which for most of us means hunting and pecking. At best, we sort video by tags that someone has manually selected, and then drag the video scroll bar back and forth until we find the information we need. Can you say, “time consuming”?
Another thing that some regard as time consuming, yet a civic duty, is listening to political debates. Over the past nine months, the GOP candidates met head to head in over 20 debates to discuss a wide range of topics. But for viewers who weren’t able to tune in for each 90-minute debate … imagine being able to instantly find every clip of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney talking about “immigration,” or to automatically parse each debate and identify who spoke about the “Supreme Court,” the “constitution,” or the “auto industry.”
With Cisco Pulse, Cisco’s video analytics solution, we used voice recognition to analyze each of the last four Republican debates. From January 19th through February 22nd, these debates featured the Republican candidates at the time: Romney, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Representative Ron Paul. (For a fascinating drill-down of what was said vs. what was reported, check out this blog from ActionNugget, a marketing insights firm.)
This is more than just speech-to-text technology. Using a Cisco voice recognition engine, Pulse is able to sort each video by top keywords and speakers. That means you can jump instantly to the specific segment of video you need, or browse entire libraries of video by content or speaker, instead of just manually entered tags. You can instantly see the top keywords for each video … who said what in context. The infographic below provides a snapshot of the findings from Cisco Pulse – a summary of topics from each debate and who said what.
Productivity and flexibility are key words that we hear many times in the work place.
What do they mean to IT administrators in relationship to telepresence meeting room scheduling? In the past this was a complicated process that meant that Microsoft Exchange server had to be taken off line to do this type of upgrade. Now with a new feature capability from Cisco TelePresence TMSXE, IT administrators can install TMSXE quickly and easily with step by step instructions without impacting Microsoft Exchange during the upgrade. This means there is no impact to end-user’s productivity because the upgrade is seamless and transparent to them. TMSXE continues to empower end users by giving them more control and flexibility to schedule telepresence meeting rooms when and where they need without needing IT support to do so. TMSXE frees up IT resources to focus on more pressing issues vs. having to be the telepresence meeting room scheduler for an organization. Read More »
I attended Enterprise Connect for the ninth time this year, but it was the first time I delivered a keynote address. With the advances in technology today I could have delivered my keynote via TelePresence from Oslo, my home town in Norway. But I chose to attend in person because in this case face-to-face was the best way to tell my story.
I spoke to how “It is not enough to be connected.” This may sound strange coming from me, especially since I represent “the” networking company, but Cisco has evolved, as technology, businesses, and customer needs have evolved. Just being connected is not enough to drive the next levels of productivity. So, we need to think beyond connectivity. Read More »
Ah, the power of video. Witness the virality (and virility?) of the Dollar Shave Club.
Seems like a revolutionary concept, doesn’t it? And with that David vs. Goliath overtone, it’s downright catnip to the trodden, recession-weary masses. But, guess what? Budget blades have been done before. Several times. (See www.razorsdirect.com, www.shaving-shack.com, not to mention drugstore knock-off brands.)
So, what made it different this time?
In a word, video.
(4.15 million views on YouTube in a month.)
You can call it social media, too. Or just a sense of humor. But the basic fact is, without the video, and the talent it showcases, Dollar Shave Club would not have the big brands shaking in their boardrooms.
LiveAction was one of the first medianet partners to successfully complete the medianet IVT in April 2011 when it provided support for the medianet features performance monitor as well as IPSLA Video Operations. In this latest IVT, the new version of LiveAction introduced support for the medianet mediatrace feature.
A great discussion here following a virtual fieldtrip (VFT) to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia by a 5th grade class at Augusta Elementary School in Greenville, South Carolina, .
Cisco’s Dr. Lance Ford discusses the experience with one of the 5th grade students and her father who also attended the VFT.
Margaret Murphy, the 5th grade teacher who planned the VFT had this to say:
“Extending an opportunity to students to (voluntarily) come to school and immerse themselves in a foreign ecosystem is an amazing new method to reach our children….Not only did our students leave asking and thinking of more questions than they ever knew about the Great Barrier Reef, they were probing their parents to answer questions that the parents have never considered before. I have received more parental and student feedback on this VFT than I have on our three day (face-to-face) field trip to a South Carolina ecosystem.” Read More…
Great Britain kicked off the New Year with the initial rollout of an exciting new initiative: making telehealth technologies accessible to patients across the nation.
According to Netdoctor, the telehealth program, which will take five years to completely enact, follows successful trials in small regions of England. Patients with long-term health issues who participated in the pilot had nearly half the death rate of people who did not have access to telehealth devices. Emergency room admissions decreased considerably as well.
Physical security has March Madness. And you might get it too, if you manage Cisco UCS and run video surveillance applications. Or if you attended ISC West this week in Vegas, where virtualization was all the buzz.
Our hot news is the virtualization of video surveillance on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). This has potentially profound implications on two big operational costs: data center management and safety and security operations.
Not only did our students leave asking and thinking of more questions than they ever knew about the Great Barrier Reef, they were probing their parents to answer questions that the parents have never considered before. I have received more parental and student feedback on this VFT than I have on our three day (face-to-face) field trip to a South Carolina ecosystem.” 
