Service Provider

January 20, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Exploring Global Digital Transformations for 2015

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2014 ended with a flurry of technology conferences in Europe and the Middle East.  In November, the European Commission’s (EC) annual Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Conference addressed how to make the EC a 21 Century organization.  In December, the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications Standardization Sector ( ITU-T) hosted a meeting in Doha, Qatar for […]

January 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Building Innovation: Achieve Fast IT with Customers

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Recently I had the privilege to exchange thoughts at a roundtable discussion about the Future of Managed Services with our strategic partner Presidio. I would like to share some highlights from that dynamic dialogue. We all agreed, the services industry overall is heading to a tipping point. Managed services are becoming more attractive to IT, […]

January 13, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Your Network, Your Way

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As a service provider, whether you are a traditional “mobile network operator” or are a newly emerging operator, you are constantly re-inventing your offering to keep up with the changing demands of the mobile public. Nowadays, the mobile public is looking for a network that fits them instead of adapting to fit the network.  To […]

Videoscape-Powered Advertising + Linear TV: a Winning Combination

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Read some of the press covering digital media today, and you’d think that TV advertising is going the way of the dinosaurs. After all, web and mobile advertising lets you slice and dice your ads to target narrow audiences in a way that hasn’t been possible with TV, where historically, targeting meant finding programs that […]

How Can Satellite Service Providers Deliver At The Speed Of The Web?

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In the go-go-go marketplace that is pay television, one of the most important raw ingredients for success is the ability to rapidly respond to competitive interlopers of all stripes — online and over-the-top, in addition to the “known” / traditional video purveyors. This is particularly true for satellite video providers. Their ability to quickly upgrade […]

SDN and NFV Use Cases in EPN

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My last post reviewed some of the building blocks of SDN (Software Defined Networking) and positioned the protocols and APIs (Application Programming Interface) into categories so that the multitude of technologies associated with SDN can be positioned in a coherent framework. This month I’d like to start looking at some use cases where some of […]

Cisco Virtualized Video Processing makes it easy to whip up a full menu of multiscreen services

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What if cooking worked like video processing? By that I mean, what if every dish you made required separate, dedicated tools and processes just for that dish? So if you’re making a main course for a dinner party, you break out your Main Course knives and kitchen utensils, your Main Course pots and pans, and […]

December 22, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Wi-Fi moves to real-time with VoWi-Fi

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The recent release of the Cisco® Universal Wi-Fi solution for service providers is the industry’s first end-to-end solution with HD VoWi-Fi (Voice over Wi-Fi) as a key...