Ben Bekele is a Director of product management for Cloud and Automation products within the Cisco cable business unit. Ben is responsible for delivering innovative products like Cisco's virtualized CMTS - the Cloud Native Broadband Router and applications to automate the management of the cable Distributed Access Architecture(DAA). Ben is also responsible for delivering solution to address the service providers migration to a software and cloud centric disaggregated and distributed architecture.
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 – […]
As consumers, we gravitate to any retailer that personalizes our experience. Netflix and Amazon did it with recommendations and others are following suit. My twelve-year-old son and I recently got new Garmin smart-watches for Christmas – the Forerunner 620 and 630. We created workout plans, set our goals and now we can automatically track our […]
Service Providers Poised to Disrupt the VPN Market Clouds are rolling into our lives and our economy more and more each day giving us full control. My kids were streaming a movie to their iPad in the backseat of our minivan, as we drove from Atlanta to Disney World last week. Many of the resources […]