SP360: Service Provider
Multimedia Millennials: Cable operators offer more apps and streaming services to young consumers
According to Pew Research, one-in-seven Americans are television “cord cutters”, Millennials’ (18 – 34 year olds) are leading the way in bypassing traditional TV viewing with video streaming services, leading to a generation of cord cutters and cord nevers. According to new research from The D…
If Video Monitoring & the CCAP Transition Are On Your Cable-Tec Expo Shopping List…
By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco We go into this year’s SCTE/ISBE Cable-Tec Expo with considerable momentum in the industrial transition to CCAP (or, the Converged Cable Access Platform) — and as trials and deployments get underway, we continue to b…
Why Ron Hranac is the Standard of Excellence
By Sean Welch, vice president and general manager, Cable Access BU, Cisco It wouldn’t be a Cable-Tec Expo without our own Ron Hranac parading a convention badge with a trail of award ribbons cascading nearly to his knees. After all, he’s been a (very) active SCTE member since 1979, and is a self-dia…
Innovations and Patents for Cisco’s Virtual CMTS
By Daniel Etman, Director of Product Management, Cable Access Business, Cisco Cisco is leading the discussion about virtualizing network functions this week at the SCTE event in Philadelphia. By providing an open and programmable software-based platform that can support both data and video processin…
Full Duplex DOCSIS®: Near Fiber Optic Capacity with Coax Cable
Some people think coax cable is past its prime and can’t keep up with fiber, but that’s not true. This past August at the CableLabs Summer Conference, Cisco unveiled a new silicon reference design for Full Duplex DOCSIS® technology which can deliver near fiber optic capacity over an existing cable p…
Playing to your strengths: The key to service provider success
Today’s marketplace is a challenging one but service providers offering the right help to their enterprise customers are more relevant than ever. Develop your strengths to ensure ongoing prosperity. A concert pianist spends very little time in the gym bulking up her biceps. And with good reason. Wha…
Model Driven Telemetry Straight from the Experts
There continues to be a lot of talk about automation and orchestration for carrier-grade workloads. However, these technologies can’t be fully leveraged until proper telemetry can be implemented. To shed some light on progress we’re making in delivering on network telemetry for we recently hosted a…
Setting the Pace with the Cisco NCS 5500
We wrote recently how Cisco’s innovation machine is moving faster than ever – with the “x-speed” project that delivered several new platforms last year, including the NCS1000, NCS 5500, and enhancements to IOS XR, such as streaming telemetry, application hosting, and segment routing. The Cisco NCS 5…
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…