David Yates

  Guest Blog by – Peter Chave, Technical Engineering Leader, Cisco Video Software and Solutions For as long as there’s been cause for broadcast video engineers to get together to talk shop, there’s been that big blob in the middle of the topological diagram — the frame-accurate crosspoint…

Guest Blog by, Paul Bosco, vice president, market development, Cisco Service Provider business  At NAB this week, Cisco is showcasing to media and entertainment companies its certification of independent software vendors (ISV) focused on media-centric applications. The solutions available to custome…

Guest blog written by Ken Dumont, Business Development Manager, Cisco Service Provider Video Software & Solutions Maybe you saw this, maybe not: Just before Christmas, LA Lakers fans were met with the unsettling news that their high-scoring hero, Kobe Bryant, would be benched, for tired legs. Ho…

Read some of the press covering digital media today, and you’d think that TV advertising is going the way of the dinosaurs. After all, web and mobile advertising lets you slice and dice your ads to target narrow audiences in a way that hasn’t been possible with TV, where historically, targeting mean…

In the go-go-go marketplace that is pay television, one of the most important raw ingredients for success is the ability to rapidly respond to competitive interlopers of all stripes — online and over-the-top, in addition to the “known” / traditional video purveyors. This is particularly true f…

Amid the technological sizzle at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show is a special line of equipment and services, developed entirely for satellite video providers. And, as you might expect, it’s a solution set being heavily fortified by the cloud. That’s why a strong undercurrent this week in Las…

What if cooking worked like video processing? By that I mean, what if every dish you made required separate, dedicated tools and processes just for that dish? So if you’re making a main course for a dinner party, you break out your Main Course knives and kitchen utensils, your Main Course pots and p…

I’m often asked, “What can Cisco Videoscape do for my organization?” The best answer is to look at what it did for yes, Israel’s biggest satellite TV provider. Yes launched its over-the-top (OTT) multiscreen video service, yes GO, in Israel last year based on the Cisco Videoscape Video Everywhere So…

By John Chapman, Cisco Fellow, CTO, Cable Access BU This week, we and 10,000 or so hard-core engineering colleagues within the cable industry descend upon the city once known as the cable capital of the world — Denver, Colorado — and, like it’s been since the earliest days of the Society…