video

Video Security Everywhere: From Creation to Consumption

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Not that long ago, life was much easier. Video was delivered in a linear managed path and there was a well-defined process – from content creation to distribution to consumption – with distinct roles for content creators and service providers. Video infrastructure was largely isolated and used unique technologies designed for broadcast video delivery. This […]

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 […]

Join Us at CES 2016

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It’s that time again — time to join 101,000 like-minded gadget and innovation enthusiasts for the “main event” in consumer technologies: The Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. We’re coming in heavy this year, in terms of news and announcements, all under the banner of “transformation through innovation.” At our demos showcase at The Wynn […]

December 10, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cloud Baby, Cloud! A CES Tweet Chat (#CiscoChat) About the Interplay Between Devices & Clouds

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The tech-fest that is the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is just under a month away, and we’re celebrating it with a live Tweet-chat from Las Vegas, to dig into the intersections between devices, and the cloud. The numbers alone make it a big topic: An astonishing 80% of the world’s Internet traffic will […]

December 9, 2015

COLLABORATION

SX10 and Spark: A Connection in the Cloud

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Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about a Wainhouse review that evaluated the ease of use and deployment, and cost efficiency of the Cisco SX10 Quick Set for small group video meetings. I wouldn’t have thought when we introduced the SX10 a few years back that we would be able to do even more […]

October 26, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Seeing Revenue Opportunities through the Data Forest: Monetization & Optimization Index

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I love football, especially the NFL. I grew up in Memphis — a city without a team. Oh, yes, we had WFL and USFL teams along the way. However, their owners could never convince the NFL to expand and let them in when the other leagues folded. We even hosted – though inhospitably – the […]

October 22, 2015

GOVERNMENT

Public Safety Series: EOCs Harness Video to Improve Emergency Response

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Last month, I had the opportunity to speak with PoliceOne about how Cisco solutions are helping to improve public safety in an area most people aren’t aware of: emergency operations centers. Emergency operations centers, or EOCs, are the center of disaster response efforts, helping to coordinate the first responders and distribute information to decision-makers in […]