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September 14, 2018

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Powering AI Workloads in Media and Entertainment

If you’ve been following news in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and are involved in media and entertainment, this has been a week of milestones. First, Cisco announced the expansion of the UCS portfolio to power the full lifecycle of AI, from data collection and analysis, to data preparation and train…

September 13, 2018

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Join Cisco at Telstra Vantage

Attending Telstra Vantage 2018? Visit our stand and join our many experts on-site! Click the links below to schedule time to connect.   Security Expert Gary Spiteri       Networking Expert Rodney Thomson       IoT Evangelist Jay Rich, @JayLeighRich    …

September 13, 2018

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VideoGuard Anti-Piracy Services: World Cup Infographic Case Study

Enjoy this case study infographic related to our 2018 FIFA World Cup work: Fighting Streaming Piracy! See VideoGuard Anti-Piracy Services in action at booth 1.A71 at #IBC2018. Email Anti-Piracy@Cisco.com to book a demo, or reach out to Avi Ben Simon, Rinat Burdo or Fabio Souza.…

September 13, 2018

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Cisco @IBC 2018: “Dailies” to “Hourlies;” Venues to Studios: How Our Media Blueprint is Reaching into Film and S …

Hi, Rog again. Last blog, I hinted at more details to come about our current work to industrialize the implementation of IP and cloud technologies into adjacent media segments. Specifically, film and sports. This blog aims to do just that: Give you a deeper look into the ways our film and sports par…

September 12, 2018

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Cisco SPVSS IBC Panel: The Next Billion Viewers, the Next Billion Dollars

JAMES FIELD is speaking on this amazing IBC 2018 panel! (So are BBC, Google, & SSVC.) To attend, login to your IBC registration, click on Upgrade, and use code CSS18 to get free ‘add-on’ access to the session. NEW TV GROWTH MODELS is the topic of the panel. The set-up question: How w…

September 12, 2018

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Open vRAN Ecosystem – Enabling a Better Mobile Architecture

We launched the Open vRAN Ecosystem in February of this year with a vision to accelerate the viability and adoption of open virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and ensure their extension into a broader network architecture. We’ve had a busy six months architecting and building solutions, executing oper…

September 12, 2018

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Network Modernization: A TDM to IP Solution Webinar and White Paper

Operators are struggling to manage their aging SONET/SDH infrastructure, much of which has exceeded its intended life span and has become a serious operational strain. For years, operators had few architectural options for network modernization. Fortunately, circuit emulation (CEM) has emerged as a…

September 11, 2018

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Cisco, Intel and Microsoft Accelerate the Transition from SDI to IP with an Open Source Toolkit for Media Software Vendo …

Written by Peter Bosch & Andre Surcouf Live media production facilities primarily use serial digital interface (SDI) for interconnections between media applications, media appliances and other bespoke media equipment. The transition from SDI to IP aids in replacing traditional SDI cables with Et…

September 11, 2018

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Cisco ASR 9000 Reloaded For Mass Scale Networking

The wide-spread adoption of the Internet is simply phenomenal. 2018 marks the year where the number of Internet users has surpassed half of the world’s population with 3.6B users. And, according to Cisco VNI, IP traffic will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 24 percent from 2016 to 202…