ASR 9000 Solidifies Position as Leading Edge Router Platform

Last week in Chicago at Supercomm, the Cisco VNI usage study highlighted the average broadband connection generates approximately 11.4 gigabytes of Internet traffic per month, 4.3 gigabytes of the traffic being visual networking applications (advanced services such as video, social …Read more.

Posted by Suraj Shetty on October 26, 2009 at 06:23AM

Cisco Announces the Visual Networking Index Usage Study

The average broadband subscriber in the world generates 11.4 Gigabytes of traffic per month, and the top one percent of users generate over 20 percent of the global internet traffic. These and other interesting insights can be found in the …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on October 21, 2009 at 08:29AM

Estimating Cable or Telco Network IP Traffic Growth

You may have heard or read that the current Cisco Visual Networking Index forecast projects that by 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte. But have you ever wondered what impact this IP traffic growth will have …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on September 30, 2009 at 01:41PM

The Michael Jackson Effect

So, readers of this blog may well remember my thoughts on the late Michael Jackson - Innovator, Trendsetter, the King of Pop - and one of the most iconic figures of my youth. No other entertainer, in my opinion, has …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on July 23, 2009 at 12:28PM

Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast Annual Update

The Annual Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast has just been released and projects a five-fold increase in traffic from 2008 to 2013, when an estimated 2/3rds of a zettabyte will cross the network. Watch to learn more about the study, …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on June 09, 2009 at 05:00AM

Cisco CRS-1: Five Years Strong

Happy Birthday, CRS-1! Our flagship router, the Cisco Carrier Routing System, or CRS-1, just celebrated its 5 year anniversary in style with the announcement of three new customers: Megafon, the largest mobile provider in Russia which is deploying a new …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on May 28, 2009 at 03:41PM

The Cable Show: Explosive Growth in IP Video - Cisco’s Approach to the Challenges & Opportunities

Murali Nemani, Director SP Video Solutions Marketing, discusses how Cisco is monitoring the major drive to video, how this impacts cable operators and what Cisco is doing to address such pressures through its product development strategy.

Posted by Murali Nemani on April 02, 2009 at 10:18AM

Welcome to the Flip Generation

This morning Cisco announced the intent to acquire Pure Digital, makers of the very popular Flip video cameras.  I’ve been a Flip user for years capturing everything from my daughter’s first steps to Cisco’s presence at the Cannes Film Festival.  …Read more.

Posted by Scott Brown on March 19, 2009 at 08:12AM

Online video monetization and what it means for consumers

I read that Myspace has partnered with MTV and Auditude to implement an advertising platform to monetize online video. I immediately wondered what the implications are for the consumers who frequently embed or post online video to their blogs and …Read more.

Posted by Johanna Fry on November 04, 2008 at 12:15PM

Follow up on Visual Networking: Facts&Projections

On Monday, I mentioned TokBox, an online based video chat company that enables visual networking by creating an increasingly convenient and inexpensive way to communicate through video. I want to follow up with some facts about video usage on the …Read more.

Posted by Johanna Fry on July 16, 2008 at 04:16PM