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Cisco at ANGA 2016
By Yves Padrines, VP, Global Service Provider EMEAR, Cisco Broadband meets content meets transformation through innovation at this year’s ANGA COM gathering, scheduled to run three days from June 7-9 in Cologne, Germany. ANGA COM is one of my favorites in the trade show cycle, because it’s such a fo…
At the Intersection of Analytics and Your Connected Everything
By JT Taylor, Sr. Marketing Manager, Service Provider Marketing, Cisco Here’s something you undoubtedly already know: As consumers, we’re getting more and more connected. By some estimates, we fiddle with our phones every six seconds, on average. (Not you or me, of course. Absolutely not.) But some…
Our Cloud, Your Cloud, Somebody Else’s Cloud: You Pick!
By now we’re all very, very familiar with the concept of the “video anys” – any content, any device, anytime, anywhere. But for the most part, we’re familiar with it in a consumer context, as it relates to how and where and when they watch video, on whichever device. But what if the “anywhere” also…
Good People Goodness: A Toast to Kanouff, Clemson, and Raman!
By Marc Aldrich, SVP, Global Service Provider, Cisco We hereby interrupt this helter-skelter year in news, workload and general busy-ness to offer a moment of Zen, in the form of appreciating three trailblazers in our midst. By “trailblazers” I’m talking about Yvette Kanouff, Conrad Clemson, and Raj…
Pushing the Virtualization Envelope on Primary Distribution
I’ll make a bet. If you ask any of the leaders in broadcast television to sum up this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in three words, they would say: IP, Virtualization, and HDR. And that’s no surprise. Collectively, our entire video ecosystem is searching for ways to ap…
Cisco @ NAB: Is Your Media Business Secure? (Are You Sure?)
By Michal Brenner, Marketing Manager, Service Provider Video Software and Solutions, Cisco In the global digital revolution unfolding around us, the media broadcast segment is particularly well-stocked with opportunity. It’s well proven (time and time again!) that direct-to-consumer video delivery b…
Cisco @ NAB: Debuting our Cloud Scale Media Experiences To Help Media Companies Serve Up More Video
If you’re following the 2016 NAB landscape, you know that broadcasters and media companies (like yours!) are bracing for a traffic tripling, in and out of their data centers, as they grow content production for on-demand, multi-screen and 4K viewing. It’s all part of the pursuit of technologies and…
Cisco @ NAB: Update on the Cisco ISV Program for Media
By Roger Sherwood, Business Development Manager, Service Provider, Cisco Last year, as you may or may not recall, we came to NAB with a certification program for independent software vendors (ISVs) focused on media-centric applications. The idea was to make it possible to pair their apps with the C…
#CiscoChat: OTT, Cloud, and What’s Next for Media
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 and augmented reality, and much more. It will be held from April 16 to April 21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. An…