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George Tupy

Market Manager

Service Provider, Video Solutions

George is a seasoned professional in the video space with over 20 years experience in the field. He began his career at Cisco in 2006 in Product Marketing for IPTV and IP Video products covering content creation, protection, and distribution. Before his time at Cisco, George was part of the Media group at Sun Microsystems specializing in business development and was part of the team that brought one of the first video server products to market.

George’s experience also includes time in the media space working for a variety of startup companies on Video Encryption and Encoding. Early on in his career, George even spent time at Apple working on handheld devices - what we now know as the iPad.

George holds an advanced degree from the Institute of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic.

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Cisco @NAB’17: That Cloud Momentum You’re Feeling? It’s For Real

It’s April, and that means it’s time to pack back out to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters convention, scheduled for the last week of the month. And because we’ve lots to talk about, and you probably have limited time, I’m motivated to keep this one tight. I’ll start with the mo…

Cisco@CES: Video Quality Everywhere as a Competitive Differentiator

What better place than the International Consumer Electronics Show to shine the light on consumer experiences in the device landscape — and not just the sparkly, new, all-IP dandies, mind you — such that all devices are treated as first class citizens? That’s part of what we will be demo…

Cisco@CES 2017: Exceed Broadcast and OTT

This one’s for everyone careening out of the holidays and into 2017 — while necessarily keeping an eye on what’s about to happen at the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show. We’ll be at the Wynn Hotel again, with a hot lineup of products demonstrated– way more than I could possibly…

September 20, 2016

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We Won!

Written by Christelle Gental  IBC 2016 treated us with the hottest weather in 20 years – and with the prize for the Best Stand Design in its size category – described as providing an ‘inviting, stunning and fresh approach’! What a wonderful surprise and amazing reward for the team who worked hard fo…

September 19, 2016

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Cisco @ SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2016: Get Your Philly of Gigabit Broadband, Cloud Video, Virtual Video Distribution, And Mor …

By Daniel Etman It’s that time of the year where pundits from the cable and broadband industry gather at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo 2016. This year we will be in the historic and largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. While many of us are looking forward Philly Cheesesteaks, we are…

September 19, 2016

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Talk the Talk or Walk the Walk?

Written by Gideon Gilboa, Director of Marketing, Service Provider Video There’s been a lot of noise recently about the impact of cloud on the pay TV business. If you attended IBC in Amsterdam last week, you will no doubt have heard buzz words like cloud, SaaS, DevOps and virtualization from all vend…

September 9, 2016

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Weary of New Product Announcements? Want to Read About Real Momentum, Instead?

Instead of increasing the volume of new product announcements coming out of IBC 2016, this blog will focus on what’s really happening in the IP video marketplace. With some obligatory background: A few years ago, our broadcast and service provider video partners asked for a way to transition from ha…

Cisco @ IBC 2016: That’s A Mighty Tight Video Cloud!

It’s nearly IBC time, which means that some 55,000-ish of us are about to pack up for the massive RAI Amsterdam exhibit hall(s!) for five days of media and entertainment convention bliss. This also means it’s that time when people start asking about what we’ll be focused on, demonstrating, and annou…

Cisco Service Quality Management for Cable and Media

By Jan Bogaert, BDM, Service Provider Cable and Media, Cisco Services Two important consumer trends that have a high impact on the way Content and Service Providers and Cable MSO’s need to manage the E2E Service experience of their customers are: Ever increasing media consumption on any device and…