internet protocol
Broadcasting Trends: SDI to IP and the Impact of Cloud Infrastructure
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In this blog series for Broadcasters, top technology challenges, transformation and the value of the ecosystem are explored. With this blog we offer insights and discuss how Cisco innovations help broadcasters deliver higher resolution video, achieve better connectivity, and accelerate ideas to audiences.
Cisco at the 2015 SCTE Cable-Tec Expo
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It’s Expo Eve down here in New Orleans, where the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center will soon fill with the technology people of the cable and broadband industry. Us included! We’ve been planning for months for this year’s SCTE Cable-Tec Expo, and are appreciably stocked (I hope!) with all of the elements that multichannel video […]
Moving to IPv6: Rebuilding the Heart of the Internet Without Missing a Beat
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Within the coming decade, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) will be key to enabling 50 billion connections among people, processes, data, and things in the Internet of Everything (IoE). But how we get there from here is not a simple matter. I’m very pleased to invite Mark Townsley, Cisco Fellow and recognized industry expert on IP, […]
Six Insights: Implications of the VNI Forecast 2012-2017
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Shortly before we released this year’s Cisco VNI Forecast 2012-2017* on May 29th, I had a chance to contemplate the implications behind all the report’s data. The Forecast makes it clear that IP traffic will continue to grow “in leaps and bounds” through 2017, but there is so much more information lying hidden within the […]
Demystifying IPv6
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Version 6 of the Internet protocol (IPv6) is a key enabler of the Internet of Everything (IoE). People, data, and things all need IP addresses to connect to the Internet. But we’ve already run out of IP addresses under IPv4, which dictates almost all (98.5 percent) of Internet traffic today. Even with all of the […]
The 2017 Internet: A Look at the Future, Courtesy of the Cisco VNI Forecast
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Visualize this: nearly half the Earth’s population – 3.6 billion people – connected to the Internet for communication, commerce, education, information, and entertainment. Think that’s too futuristic? Think again. By 2017, less than five years from today, that will be our reality. This prediction is one of several key findings from the newly released Cisco […]
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