Service Provider

Cisco Behind the Scenes of AT&T’s New “Digital Life”

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By Joe Chow, VP, Connected Devices, Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group Today Cisco announced the launch of a UL-certified, all-digital, wireless-based home security and automation service with AT&T Digital Life. Cisco built and will provide the Digital Life control panel and back-office provisioning and applications life-cycle management system, which allows customers to monitor, protect […]

From Internet Video Consumers, a Call for Content

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By Leszek Izdebski, Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) These days, professionally produced video can be accessed through a dizzying array of hardware and delivery choices. But which concerns are top of mind for typical video consumers? To better understand the dramatic changes in the consumption of professionally produced video, Cisco IBSG surveyed 1,152 U.S. […]

Cisco and Verizon showcase the Connected Athlete Experience – a pathway to Internet of Everything

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By Kiran Matty, Marketing Manager, SP Mobility Solutions Doesn’t it boggle your mind to see how more objects are becoming embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate?  Indeed, we live in a “Connected World.”  According to Cisco IBSG, a whopping 37 billion intelligent things would be connected to the internet by 2020. Recall […]

Cisco and Cox at CES: Evolving Second Screen TV with Next-Gen Mobile App

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Today at CES in Las Vegas, Cox Communications took the wraps off of a slate of expansions to second screen TV today, during a private press reception at the Wynn Hotel. Working with Cisco, Cox evolved their video services platform to deliver more personalized video experiences, offering their customers more of what they enjoy. While […]

January 7, 2013

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Videoscape Unity: Live at CES

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If the start of a New Year is the best time to create new resolutions, then we’re defining our resolution for 2013 to be unity in video experiences. Now that our SP and media customers have deployed services to tablets and IP devices in addition to TVs, the next step is to unify and innovate […]

December 21, 2012

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

End of the World Revisited: No More IPs!

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We’ve posted this before, but in honor of the end of the Mayan calendar and the destruction of the world which was forecast for today we’re posting it again. In our mind, not having any more IP addresses would be a terrible event –  if you’re going to build the Internet of Everything you need […]

December 18, 2012

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Streaming Is Going Mainstream: The Upward Arc of Online Video, Driven By Consumers

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Only a short time ago, consumers had limited choices for accessing professional video content. Today, a smorgasbord of options continues to multiply—from premium cable and DVDs, to online choices such as Apple, Netflix, and Hulu. Hardware options are equally dizzying, as traditional TV gives way to PCs, smartphones, and tablets. As portable devices meet the […]

December 13, 2012

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Who enables over 50% of all digital cable homes in India to watch TV? We do.

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By Jayant Changrani, Country Head and General Manager – India, NDS, now part of Cisco As we near the end of the calendar year, the last part of which as a newly acquired Cisco company, we’ve reached yet another milestone in India. At the end of 2011, NDS celebrated that its solutions were enabling digital […]

December 12, 2012

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The Mobile Internet Goes Underground

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A common refrain in the wireless world is “everything, everywhere”, but up until now there’s been one place wireless communications has not reached: underground. When Virgin Media came to us with the opportunity to work together to design and build a Wi-Fi network that would bring mobile broadband to passengers of the London Underground subway […]