video

October 14, 2015

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

An Update On the Best Ever Bandwidth Balm: DOCSIS 3.1

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Written By Todd McCrum, Director, Product Management, Cable Access business unit, Cisco By now, the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo is in full swing, and, as (widely!) expected, the matter of DOCSIS 3.1 — the latest iteration of the Data Over Cable Service Interface Spec — is a front-of-mind topic for pretty much everyone here. Why: Because […]

October 13, 2015

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Cisco at the 2015 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo

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It’s Expo Eve down here in New Orleans, where the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center will soon fill with the technology people of the cable and broadband industry. Us included! We’ve been planning for months for this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, and are appreciably stocked (I hope!) with all of the elements that multichannel video […]

September 21, 2015

GOVERNMENT

Video Interpretation Solutions Help Ensure Equality in the Justice System

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While I was thinking about the topic of my second post in the court series leading up to the CTC conference in September, I came across an interesting news article. The state of California just announced that it will now provide court interpreters for free in all court cases. In the past, the state – […]

September 21, 2015

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Two are Better than One – cBR-8 and Connected Life Won CSI Awards

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Guest blog By Christelle Gental, SP Video Marketing Solutions Manager So here we are, back in Amsterdam for IBC 2015. The first busy day was concluded with the prestigious CSI awards, a ceremony which was launched by the Cable and Satellite International team back in 2003. The idea behind it is to recognise and reward industry […]

September 15, 2015

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From The RDK Users Conference 2015: Ensuring Safe and Secure Expansion of RDK

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By JT Taylor, Senior Marketing Manager, Service Provider Solutions Marketing, Cisco It goes without saying … Securing your prized assets is paramount. There is no upside to being King of the Kingdom if someone else has the keys. As our market evolves and RDK (Reference Design Kit) evolves with it, keeping your content, and your […]

September 12, 2015

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IBC 2015: The State of the State of DevOps and the Video Business

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By JT Taylor, Senior Manager, Service Provider Video Solutions Marketing, Cisco There comes a point in every industry where the evolution of how things get done changes. First there was manual cotton picking, then there was the cotton gin. First there were custom builds, then there were assembly lines. No matter the deliverable, we ultimately […]

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 […]

September 11, 2015

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Trust Me: Cisco Hearts Video

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  I was recently talking to an industry colleague about how incredibly focused we are, as a company, on the video marketplace. I meant it, so I was surprised to see the eyebrow-spiked reaction and their response: “How can you say that, when you just unloaded your CPE including set-top boxes, modems, etc.?” It kind […]