4 Million Video-Optimized Wireless Set-top Boxes Shipped: Who Else Can Say That?

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By Joe Chow, VP and GM, Connected Devices Business Unit, Cisco A milestone is a foot, and we’d like to commemorate it with this brief blog to promote our latest set-top box triumph. The milestone: Four million! That’s the number of video-optimized wireless set-top boxes now enhancing how consumers watch television, thanks to the notably […]

Cisco at the 2014 International CES

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It’s a new year, so one thing is certain: It’s time to go to Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics Show. CES is always an energetic annual kickstart here at Cisco, since so much of our mission is to develop and build the technologies that link consumers and businesses to service providers and big […]

Open UX Foundation Blog Setting the Foundation for HTML5

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For pay-TV service providers, delivering multi-screen TV services is a must. Same goes for embedding web and social applications. But with the proliferation of video-enabled devices such as set top boxes (STB) and computer electronics (CE) devices, software platforms become more fragmented. And that makes it more of a challenge to deliver and maintain a high […]

The 4K / HEVC Video Roadmap: Follow Cisco’s at CES 2014

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By Ken Morse, CTO, Connected Devices Business Unit, Cisco One of the trending topics here at CES in Las Vegas this week, without question, is 4K video/ 4K television, and its consumer-facing brand, “UltraHD.” Like HD did, 4K redefines TV and this is what CES is all about – compelling new technologies that ultimately draw […]

IPv6 Video Rollout via RDK Hits Europe, You Heard it Here First!

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By Bill Ver Steeg, Distinguished Engineer, Cisco Systems We are proud to put down in writing what we believe to be the first Reference Design Kit (RDK)-based deployment of IP video. Oh, and it is the first IPTV system running on IPv6. And one of the first based on a combination of premises based products […]

How Black Arrow, Cisco and Innovid Are Partnering to Advance Advertising at CES 2014

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By: Conrad Clemson, VP of business development, Cisco Service Provider Video Let’s start this blog with this simple observation: TV didn’t kill radio, but it did disrupt how advertising flows. Same for the impact of online media, on print. And by our reckoning, it’s about to happen again — the diverted flow of advertising resources […]

Cloud DVR: Reaching back in time for the shows you’ve missed

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Some of us still remember, in the pre-DVR days, when missing an episode of your favorite show meant it was lost forever – unless you chanced upon it in reruns. Even when technology allowed us to book content for recording, whether by VCR or DVR, you had to plan beforehand what you intended to record. […]

December 23, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Cleaner, Greener Set-top Boxes Under a Landmark Voluntary Agreement

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By Joe Chow, VP & GM, Cisco Connected Devices BU The Set-top box sits at the heart of our home entertainment centers, providing hours of enjoyment for the best of what’s on television. Over the past few years, it has become clear that we can do better when it comes to reducing set-top-box energy consumption. […]

December 16, 2013

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SON-The Predictable Black Art

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By Paul Mankiewich, CTO of SP Mobility Paul Mankiewich, CTO of Service Provider Mobility, charts the history of SON to it’s current state of the art, and concludes that there is no point in deploying a small cell network without SON Technology. The market over the next 5-10 years is obviously going to be transitioning […]

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