SP360: Service Provider

I like to think that I am pretty passionate about technology. And I like to work with others who share my passion. So when I hear about a group of 150 engineers working 24-hours straight in a race to make our products better…that gets my attention. On April 26 & 27, our Infinite Video Platform (…

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress 2017 was a great success this year.  I was extremely pleased with momentum in the area of Cisco’s IOS XR Software Innovations supporting our customers network transformation use cases for Cloud-Scale Networking. In the pre-show blog I alluded to this conference as the pla…

In a little less than a month, the 2017 ANGA COM Conference will kick off and this year’s Congress Agenda is packed full of great panel discussions and topics, including Cisco Service Provider leader Yvette Kanouff and Cisco Fellow and Cable CTO John Chapman. If you haven’t already made plans to att…

Today’s data centers are complex in nature. Reduced agility, system outages, security threats, data storage migration, lost or misplaced data add to this complexity. Also the adoption of the cloud services is increasing and many platforms and applications continue to co-exist, thus creating a manage…

Maybe this has happened to you, in a large or small scale: You captured some cool A/V from an event. (Small scale, maybe it’s your niece’s high school graduation; large scale, maybe it’s a segment for a movie.) It’s time now to edit it. You have lots of ideas, and editing tools. You’ve been burned b…

If you compare any video streamer to a reasonably new PC, then you will find that the PC spec is far superior to that of the streamer. But when it comes to actually viewing premium content – I mean 4K/UHD stuff – then streamers are clearly winning over the mighty PCs, including those used as game co…

Allow me to get straight to the point: You’re reading this because you’re either at or interested in the goings-on of what we used to call “the broadcast industry,” and is now broadened to “content,” “media,” “video,” and so on. It is an industry that dates back 70+ years, depending on when you star…

For media organizations, your time is now! The shift from SDI to IP is enabling you to be more agile, operate at a lower cost, and gain the flexibility to deliver premium 4K/UHD content to subscribers on virtually any device at anytime, anywhere. From the time content is acquired, put through produc…

Brace for a thriving, lets-go vibe at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, as the leaders in television, media and entertainment solidify their respective entries into the cloud-based, Internet Protocol-heavy, viewer-focused scene. Why is someone from Cisco making tha…