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Cisco @ NAB: We’ve Got Your 4K, HEVC, OTT, IP, SDN, NFV — Right Here!
There’s a reason the superlative term “broadcast quality” is the measuring stick and euphemism for “highest possible video quality” — and the people that make it happen are all here this week for the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention. If you’re reading this, chances are hi…
On Teaming Up with Snell at NAB to Accelerate the IP Video Transition for Broadcasters
By Charles Stucki The notion of combining enterprise-grade routing with broadcast television isn’t a new one, especially at a National Association of Broadcasters convention. Like everything else, the intersections between Internet Protocol-based technologies and just about everything — video…
Cisco at CCBN: Transforming Video Experiences
By Hanh Tu, Vice President, Great China CCBN (China Content and Broadcasting Network), the biggest cable industry trade show in Asia is happening between March 20-22, 2014 in Beijing, China. Cisco will be showcasing many cutting edge innovations around cloud, mobility and video to our customers and…
Israeli Pay TV Innovator Yes Launches Mobile TV Service with Cisco Videoscape
Israeli subscribers to satellite TV provider yes can now view 60+ channels of live/linear video, and thousands of on-demand titles, on devices well beyond the television set — and they can do so inside and outside of their homes. It kicked off on December 23, when yes announced its “yesGO” ser…
Connecting Everything at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show
By Joe Cozzolino, SVP and GM, Cisco Service Provider Video Infrastructure Right now, in North America, home security is the leading beachhead into the Internet of Everything (IoE) landscape. AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Rogers, among others, moved into homes this year with advanced secur…
4 Million Video-Optimized Wireless Set-top Boxes Shipped: Who Else Can Say That?
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 w…
Cisco at the 2014 International CES
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 provi…
Open UX Foundation Blog Setting the Foundation for HTML5
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…
The 4K / HEVC Video Roadmap: Follow Cisco’s at CES 2014
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 technologie…