November 09, 2006

Scientific Atlanta's HD Encoder Wins The Day

Consumers are getting to enjoy increasingly higher quality video images, and a driver of that experience is Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company, and its continued development of products that enhance home entertainment.

This week, the Consumer Electronics Association cited Scientific Atlanta’s MPEG-4 HDTV Advanced Compression Encoder (Model D9054) as an International CES Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree.

“Scientific Atlanta's new Model D9054 HD Advanced Video Compression Encoder is the first single-slice per picture AVC encoder, setting an unprecedented benchmark in HD video quality at low bit rates,” the award citation said.

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November 01, 2006

Giancarlo Points to TelePresence

TelePresence Powers Cisco's Emerging Markets
This week, Charlie Giancarlo, Cisco's chief development officer, spoke about Cisco's cultivation of innovation. Listen to the entire podcast.

Along those lines, Cisco recently formed its Emerging Markets group aimed at generating new products and business from within the company. “The Emerging Markets group exists to create all new products that are not likely to come from our existing business units. Our recently launched Cisco TelePresence product is a great example of what the group is up to,” Giancarlo said. “Such innovative technology needs a focused and from-the-ground-up effort that the Emerging Markets group is set up to provide.

“As I've told the leader of that group, Marthin De Beer, I'm not looking for him to produce x number of new products per year," said Giancarlo. Watch a video of DeBeer explaining TelePresence. “I'm looking for major new market opportunities and to have the business plans for those worked out well enough where we can expect to have a 60 percent success rate. It's really a place where the entrepreneurs at Cisco...can shine.”

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