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On the Unstoppable “Appification” of Television: Charter, Roku, and Us!

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It’s a wrap: Charter “Spectrum TV” customers who also own Roku devices can stream to their hearts’ delight — and Charter can have the peace of mind knowing that their content arrangements are safe and secure. That’s because Cisco and Roku are working together to simplify and speed up the deployment of Cisco VideoGuard Everywhere […]

The biggest cost cut you can make right now? Virtualize your video

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As cloud-based solutions continue to proliferate, it’s clear that the virtualized video revolution has already begun. How much of your video infrastructure still relies on dedicated appliances? Today, a growing number of pay TV providers are taking a different approach. By virtualizing key functions – transcoding, content management, content delivery network (CDN), and others – […]

Sky Turns Its Vision of the Next-Generation TV Experience to Reality

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By Yves Padrines, Vice President, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco It’s official: Sky, Europe’s leading entertainment company with 21 million customers across five territories, is set to launch Sky Q, a next generation TV home entertainment system that will reinvent the way customers watch TV. Sky Q combines live, recorded and on-demand TV, accessible on […]

September 11, 2015

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Cloud is Transforming TV: Cisco Is Transforming Cloud TV Delivery

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By Adam Davies, product marketing manager for Infinite Video, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco By now it’s very clear that TV and entertainment viewing habits are changing. More people are accessing more content on more devices than ever before. Revenue from subscription OTT services is expected to almost double — to $50 billion […]

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 […]

December 22, 2014

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How does Cisco Videoscape transform TV experiences? The answer is yes.

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I’m often asked, “What can Cisco Videoscape do for my organization?” The best answer is to look at what it did for yes, Israel’s biggest satellite TV provider. Yes launched its over-the-top (OTT) multiscreen video service, yes GO, in Israel last year based on the Cisco Videoscape Video Everywhere Solution, and it made a huge […]

September 11, 2014

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At IBC 2014, Cisco and Partners Will Demonstrate All IP Live Production for Broadcasters

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After the already well-established distribution, contribution and file-based IP workflows, the next step towards an IP based infrastructure is live production. Broadcast facilities are now at the beginning of this long-term transition journey for the live production market. Many of those involved in the industry developing traditional broadcast production networks may still have limited experience […]

Why We’re Joining the Linaro Digital Home Group

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Written By Ken Morse, CTO, Connected Devices, Cisco One of the unmistakable trends happening in consumer electronics is the steady and seemingly unstoppable rise of ARM-based chips as the norm in all kinds of gear, and particularly mobile devices such as tablets, and smart phones. It follows that ARM-based silicon is favored in the mobile […]

Creating a Cloud Sandbox for Video to Bring More Innovation to TV

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Written By George Tupy, Marketing Manager, Cisco Service Provider Video For TV service providers, one of the key promises of cloud architectures is the ability to innovate at Internet speeds. This enables a host of business outcomes, including new experiences which can be delivered and monetized more rapidly. Beyond the speed of innovation, a key […]