video

#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 […]

Winning the Battle for Mobile Video Viewers

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There is a battle for mobile video viewers going on now. In North America alone, one operator offers their subscribers free streaming video without charging against their data plan. At another service provider, they enable companies to sponsor the data plans for subscribers to encourage a strong advertising model. And yet another service provider is […]

March 23, 2016

RETAIL & HOSPITALITY

Video Provides a Fresh Approach to Retail

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The key to retail success is understanding the shopping journey, and video can play an important part in that process. Sandra Acham talked to me this week as she wrote a blog about how video supports a comprehensive approach to understanding customer behavior (read the blog). The thing is that today’s retail customers don’t think […]

CableFAX Thinks Conrad Clemson Is A Most Innovative Person, And So Do We

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CableFAX just gave us the good word that our own Conrad Clemson is officially a Most Innovative Person in Multiscreen. If you don’t know Conrad, here’s the top line: He runs our Service Provide Video Software and Solutions group, as Senior VP and General Manager. Conrad leads a global team focused on delivering Cisco’s industry-leading […]

Librestream and GBM Improve Safety with Rapid Response in the Field

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Here’s a great story of how one of our oil and gas customers is making use of a sophisticated video collaboration solution in the field to accelerate response to issues and make significant improvements in safety and overall communication, especially in hazardous areas.

February 18, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

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 […]

February 16, 2016

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

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 […]

February 16, 2016

HEALTHCARE

Visit Cisco at HIMSS16 in Las Vegas

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We are looking forward to participating in the HIMSS16 Annual Conference & Exhibition from March 1-3 in Las Vegas, NV.  If you are planning to attend HIMSS16, be sure to visit the Cisco booth (#2643) to see new solutions for patient engagement, telehealth, security, application integration and more. In the booth, you can meet with Cisco […]