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Cisco at ANGA 2016
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By Yves Padrines, VP, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco Broadband meets content meets transformation through innovation at this year’s ANGA COM gathering, scheduled to run three days from June 7-9 in Cologne, Germany. ANGA COM is one of my favorites in the trade show cycle, because it’s such a focused marketplace for network operators, content […]
At the Intersection of Analytics and Your Connected Everything
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By JT Taylor, Sr. Marketing Manager, Service Provider Marketing, Cisco Here’s something you undoubtedly already know: As consumers, we’re getting more and more connected. By some estimates, we fiddle with our phones every six seconds, on average. (Not you or me, of course. Absolutely not.) But some flavors of connected stuff we visit much less […]
Our Cloud, Your Cloud, Somebody Else’s Cloud: You Pick!
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By now we’re all very, very familiar with the concept of the “video anys” – any content, any device, anytime, anywhere. But for the most part, we’re familiar with it in a consumer context, as it relates to how and where and when they watch video, on whichever device. But what if the “anywhere” also […]
Good People Goodness: A Toast to Kanouff, Clemson, and Raman!
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By Marc Aldrich, SVP, Global Service Provider, Cisco We hereby interrupt this helter-skelter year in news, workload and general busy-ness to offer a moment of Zen, in the form of appreciating three trailblazers in our midst. By “trailblazers” I’m talking about Yvette Kanouff, Conrad Clemson, and Rajeev Raman, who, by their own respective merits, earned […]
Pushing the Virtualization Envelope on Primary Distribution
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I’ll make a bet. If you ask any of the leaders in broadcast television to sum up this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in three words, they would...
Cisco @ NAB: Is Your Media Business Secure? (Are You Sure?)
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By Michal Brenner, Marketing Manager, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco In the global digital revolution unfolding around us, the media broadcast segment is particularly well-stocked with opportunity. It’s...
Cisco @ NAB: Update on the Cisco ISV Program for Media
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By Roger Sherwood, Business Development Manager, Service Provider, Cisco Last year, as you may or may not recall, we came to NAB with a certification program for...
Cisco @ NAB: Debuting our Cloud Scale Media Experiences To Help Media Companies Serve Up More Video
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If you’re following the 2016 NAB landscape, you know that broadcasters and media companies (like yours!) are bracing for a traffic tripling, in and out of their data centers, as...
#CiscoChat: OTT, Cloud, and What’s Next for Media
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The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show this year will be showcasing content in all of its forms, from broadcast and print media to videos and live streaming, to virtual...
NAB 2016, Cisco, and “Cloud-Scale Media Experiences:” Are You Ready?
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The world’s video content leaders head to Las Vegas in a few weeks for the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, where a sustaining theme is how to get to “cloud scale” – meaning a media optimization weaving all through the content ecosystem, from the camera to the end screen (and whether that screen […]
More On What’s Powering Shaw’s “Free Range TV” Offering
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We call it our Virtualized Video Processor, or “V2P”. Shaw Communications gave it a much more consumer-friendly name — “Free Range TV,” which launched during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. In this video interview, Cisco VP of Product Management, Jeff Seebeck discusses the over-arching design elements that made our V2P a core building block at […]
Digi-Know? Getting to Multi-Screen Video Is a Days & Weeks Thing — Not a Months & Years Thing
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In this kickoff video for our new “Digi-Know” video series, Cisco’s Senior Director of Cloud Solutions, Rajeev Raman, discusses the shift of streaming video from a “interesting, let’s dabble” mindset to a “it’s ON, this is real” intention amongst service providers and content owners. Rajeev, whom we were (very!) fortunate to onboard from our recent […]
Turkish Delight: D-Smart Launching Multiscreen with Cisco’s Infinite Broadcast Solution
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It came out at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show that Turkish satellite video and broadband provider D-Smart is working closely with us to launch a multiscreen service, branded “D-Smart Blu,” based on our Infinite Broadcast solution. In this video interview between D-Smart CTO Erdoğan Şimşek and our own Conrad Clemson, VP/Strategy for the Service Provider Technology […]
Cisco highlights Multi-Vendor, Broadcast IP-Production Video Proof of Concept As Part of New “Media Blueprint”
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Guest Blog by: Roger Sherwood, Cisco Manager of Sales Business Development for Service Provider The idea was born in Paris late 2015. 42 Mediatvcom and the R&D Department of public broadcaster France Televisions wanted to build a proof‐of-concept demonstration for broadcasters interested in interconnecting their television studios over IP. The design parameters: it had to be […]
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 […]
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 […]