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George Tupy

Market Manager

Service Provider, Video Solutions

George is a seasoned professional in the video space with over 20 years experience in the field. He began his career at Cisco in 2006 in Product Marketing for IPTV and IP Video products covering content creation, protection, and distribution. Before his time at Cisco, George was part of the Media group at Sun Microsystems specializing in business development and was part of the team that brought one of the first video server products to market.

George’s experience also includes time in the media space working for a variety of startup companies on Video Encryption and Encoding. Early on in his career, George even spent time at Apple working on handheld devices - what we now know as the iPad.

George holds an advanced degree from the Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic.

Articles

NAB 2016, Cisco, and “Cloud-Scale Media Experiences:” Are You Ready?

4 min read

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 […]

February 18, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

More On What’s Powering Shaw’s “Free Range TV” Offering

1 min read

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 […]

February 18, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Digi-Know? Getting to Multi-Screen Video Is a Days & Weeks Thing — Not a Months & Years Thing

1 min read

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 […]

February 16, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Turkish Delight: D-Smart Launching Multiscreen with Cisco’s Infinite Broadcast Solution

1 min read

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 […]

January 20, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cisco highlights Multi-Vendor, Broadcast IP-Production Video Proof of Concept As Part of New “Media Blueprint”

1 min read

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

2 min read

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 […]