ip video

October 13, 2015

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Cisco at the 2015 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo

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It’s Expo Eve down here in New Orleans, where the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center will soon fill with the technology people of the cable and broadband industry. Us included! We’ve been planning for months for this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, and are appreciably stocked (I hope!) with all of the elements that multichannel video […]

September 23, 2014

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The Shift to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) Supports More and Better Customer Video Experiences

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The Internet has emerged as one of the most powerful ways for businesses and consumers to communicate and learn. Its global reach, accessibility and speed have opened doors to areas of knowledge that in the past were available only to a privileged few. With the emergence of popular video-streaming services that deliver Internet video to […]

September 19, 2014

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IP Traffic Will Need a Fast Lane for Video in 2018

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Over the past two decades, Internet Protocol (IP) traffic has been on the rise and is anticipated to continue along a similar trajectory over the next five years. The increasing number of fixed and wireless devices and M2M nodes that are connecting to global IP networks is one of the primary contributors to global IP […]

RDK in Action: ANGA COM and Beyond

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The RDK – the Reference Design Kit – already catapulting into the cable landscape, by way of cloud-capable set-tops and gateways – is a hefty source of industry discussion as we head into ANGA COM, in Cologne. As an active RDK Community member, we are already deeply involved with RDK launches, worldwide. We’re also poised […]

On Teaming Up with Snell at NAB to Accelerate the IP Video Transition for Broadcasters

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By Charles Stucki The notion of combining enterprise-grade routing with broadcast television isn’t a new one, especially at a National Association of Broadcasters convention. Like everything else, the intersections between Internet Protocol-based technologies and just about everything — video included — have been building momentum for the last several years. But! This year is different, and […]

IPv6 Video Rollout via RDK Hits Europe, You Heard it Here First!

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By Bill Ver Steeg, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems We are proud to put down in writing what we believe to be the first Reference Design Kit (RDK)-based deployment of IP video. Oh, and it is the first IPTV system running on IPv6. And one of the first based on a combination of premises based products […]