SP360: Service Provider

By now, those of us who attended this year’s National Association of Broadcasters convention are back home (or onto the next trip!) The last of the crates are packed out, we got the job done, and we’re ready to move on to NCTA or the Cable Show, then ANGA. But before we file 2014 NAB along with othe…

Mobile communications today is virtually indistinguishable from the first mobile call that was made four decades ago.  We have gone from monster handsets to pocket-sized portable computers.  Mobile communications has become an essential part of our daily lives.  For mobile operators and other compan…

This is a customer perspective guest blog contributed by Zack Sterngold, Boingo Wireless Vice President, Americas. The vision for a simple, seamless and secure Wi-Fi connectivity experience became a reality timed to this year’s Mobile World Congress. And by design, this major milestone was simple,…

I am writing this blog as the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Women in Engineering Region 8 Clementina Saduwa Award named after an amazing woman whose life was cut short in 2007. On a personal level, I am extremely passionate about the possibilities that technology presents for young girls and aspiring w…

By Shruti Jain, Senior analyst, SP Thought Leadership The latest Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast 2013-2018, highlights the following key trends: The number of mobile users is growing: By 2018, more than 64% of the world’s population (7.6 billion people) will be mobile users. The…

By Alfonso San Jose, Sales Consulting Systems Engineer Now that LTE networks have been rolled out by most of the service providers in the world, the next objective for operators is the migration of the voice service to the LTE network. This migration is known as Voice over LTE or VoLTE. VoLTE bring…

By Tom Ohanian, Cisco Service Provider Sales Business Development Manger The television viewing experience that since its inception consisted of gathering in the family living room and watching live television has clearly changed. Today, television viewing perhaps should be changed to the more versa…

If anything is certain about the video business, it’s this: the volume of change is daunting and every change tends to make life more complicated, not less. This is certainly true at the sharp end of the business – digital video processing – where  “multiscreen” video, new video formats and ne…

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…