TelcoTV 2009 Conference and Expo: Mike Thompson on IPTV Solutions

IP video is a key component for serving communities, and IPTV, in particular, represents essential next-generation services which open up valuable revenue opportunities. Please stay tuned to learn more about revenue opportunities and the streamlined delivery of any-play services with …Read more.

Posted by Zoya Fallah on November 06, 2009 at 07:27AM

GigaOM Network Events: NewTeeVee Live 09 - Murali Nemani Speaks on the Future of Video

Murali Nemani, Director of Service Provider Video Marketing, gives us a sneak peek of his presentation scheduled at the NewTeeVee Live 09 GigaOM Network event. Here he discusses the three particular marketing dynamics that are affecting the video landscape and …Read more.

Posted by Zoya Fallah on November 04, 2009 at 08:32AM

Cisco at SCTE 2009: Cable IPTV and Advanced Advertising

Cable IPTV for Video Heads From the show floor at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2009 in a snow covered Denver, John Horrobin and Vasu Vasudevan discuss the priority of IPTV for cable operators in today’s market, what it will take to …Read more.

Posted by Murali Nemani on October 29, 2009 at 08:26AM

Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution Wins CSI “Best Monitoring or Network Management Solution”

The Cisco Video Assurance Management Solution (VAMS) provides a modular, extensible fault management architecture helping transform service providers into experience providers. This standards-based solution enables real-time, centralized monitoring and management of multi-vendor, multi-technology, headend, backbone, regional, and aggregation networks for …Read more.

Posted by Zoya Fallah on September 30, 2009 at 12:13PM

Cisco Service Provider VP Malachy Moynihan on medianet at 2009 Intel Developer Forum

During a keynote on The Architecture of CE Innovation at the 2009 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, Cisco’s Malachy Moynihan, with Intel’s Eric Kim, explains how all Internet-based, next-generation networks - known as “medianets” - are enabling …Read more.

Posted by Murali Nemani on September 25, 2009 at 10:05AM

Cisco at IBC: From the Show Floor

  Hybrid Solutions Generate BuzzKen Morse, CTO of Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group, reports from IBC 2009 that glass-to-glass hybrid video solutions (IP with terrestrial, cable or satellite) are generating significant interest at the show. Cisco glass-to-glass solutions include …Read more.

Posted by Zoya Fallah on September 16, 2009 at 11:30AM

Cisco at IBC 2009

How Medianets Are Transforming the Video Experience New Cisco IPTV and Hybrid set-top series offer more processing power and home networking features than previous models. In the video interview below, Cisco’s Bob McIntyre and Murali Nemani discuss key examples of …Read more.

Posted by Bob McIntyre on September 11, 2009 at 03:07PM

Medianet - Media Aware Networking

What does IP bring to TV? In short, pervasive connectivity. That’s really what IP is all about, whether it’s sending email, voice or video content. But whereas IP based networks lend themselves naturally to some non-real-time applications like email, it needs be to …Read more.

Posted by Mike Capuano on September 08, 2009 at 10:51AM

EXCITING Seacom Goes Live - Get Ready Africa - Collaboration and Connectivity are Here

Post by Yvon le Roux, Vice President, Emerging Markets In my role as vice president of Cisco’s Africa and Levant region, I’m fortunate to meet dynamic people from across the region face-to-face and via TelePresence. I hear inspiring stories of …Read more.

Posted by John Earnhardt on July 22, 2009 at 05:50PM

End of an Era - Analog Television Yields to Digital

Today, across the United States, the last regular analog television broadcasts are being shut off and by tonight all over-the-air television will only be in a digital format (with a handful of special exceptions for rural areas). Most of the …Read more.

Posted by Suraj Shetty on June 12, 2009 at 02:04PM

The Medianet Mega Test - Walking the Talk!

Service providers around the globe are facing the challenge of delivering rich media services in a world with explosive growth in video traffic, expanding sources of content and numerous end devices. As I mentioned in a previous entry, Cisco introduced …Read more.

Posted by Murali Nemani on June 05, 2009 at 02:43PM

What is a medianet?

As I discuss the potential of a medianet with more and more customers, and begin to see some first-generation applications of the concept, it becomes easier to answer the question that I get frequently - “What is a medianet?” A …Read more.

Posted by Bob McIntyre on April 08, 2009 at 03:39PM

IPTV - Do you know what it stands for?

If you are unfamiliar with IPTV or you’ve heard the term but don’t quite understand how it works, then this post is for you (and me).  I learned from a recent Gartner study, that worldwide subscriptions to Internet-based television platforms …Read more.

Posted by Johanna Fry on October 03, 2008 at 05:12PM

Do You Know Where Your Data Really Is?

Today, Cisco released interesting results from a global study on data leakage that looks at the human and behavioral side of security. Our study details numerous risks and mistakes employees frequently make, but for brevity’s sake we’ve compiled a Top-10 …Read more.

Posted by Marie Hattar on September 30, 2008 at 07:58AM

New Generation Television

Some really Interesting news crossing the wires today heralds a new wave of content access for consumers giving them what they want to see, where they want to see it. Telecom Italia Selects Cisco and Adobe for Delivery of Next-Generation …Read more.

Posted by Eva Keogan on September 29, 2008 at 10:04AM

NXTcomm Update: Dr. Ray Mota on the Rise of Managed Services

Dr. Ray Mota, Chief Strategist, Synergy Research Group discusses his thoughts on the rise of managed services in the SP marketplace. Suraj Shetty, VP SP Marketing Guest Blogger

Posted by Al Safarikas on June 18, 2008 at 08:19PM

NXTcomm Update: The Video Market and Cisco Solutions

Murali Nemani, Director Video Solutions discusses the trends in the video market and Cisco’s approach to address them. Tony Harris, Program Manager, SP Marketing Guest Blogger

Posted by Al Safarikas on June 18, 2008 at 08:10PM

Simulcrypt: May They Live Happily Ever After

Peaceful Coexistence of Multiple CA Systems Content security and conditional access systems (CAS) have been traditionally, at least in part, proprietary systems. While many CAS use standardized encryption algorithms, the key management and distribution techniques as well as entitlement messaging …Read more.

Posted by Tony Wasilewski on May 29, 2008 at 08:10PM

I want my (insert technology here) TV

In a recent working session on market trends, we debated the issue of what impact internet video would have on the pay TV market such as cable or IPTV.  This is an interesting one, as on the one hand, we …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on May 28, 2008 at 04:51PM

What is an Exabyte?

“What comes after Petabyte?” was my question to Arielle Sumits, our lead researcher on the IP Traffic Study a few years ago, when we started the effort a few years ago.  Even with a wide variety of very regional and …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on April 24, 2008 at 09:20AM