SP360: Service Provider

The IBC Conference is here again, and it’s a good time to examine the changes in the media industry. Although nothing drastic has changed, there is just more–much more of the changes that started a few years ago. I want to start with a small confession. I used to be addicted to reading; it’s w…

I’m trying to come back down to Earth after this year’s Impact. I’ve been going to Impact (formerly known as GSX!) for more than twenty years and can honestly say that this was the biggest, brightest and most inspiring of them all. The atmosphere throughout the week was phenomenal, and the energy un…

If you’re in the media industry, you know why the move from serial digital interfaces (SDI) to IP can be so stressful. Leveraging IP for broadcasting in studios, stadiums and trucks dramatically simplifies and optimizes infrastructure setup and work flows and opens innovative ways of doing remote pr…

SCTE·ISBE is hosting its annual Cable-Tec Expo at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans September 30th to October 3rd.  In honor of the Society’s 50th anniversary, I thought I’d take a look back at some of the organization’s achievements and share a little trivia. Trivia #1:  Do you…

5G is a revolutionary technology that’s expected to enable Industrial Digitization. It envisions a digital network that enables society to become mobile and connected, while driving value creation in sustainable business models. 5G implementation will have an impact in social and business developmen…

We learned in the first post of this blog series how service providers (SPs) can use the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) framework to better engage with their customers and achieve superior results. In this post, we look at how JTBDs are applied for the Cisco Webex suite. We look at key elements of JTBD cons…

Written by Kaushik Mittra, Kai Ng, Jose Raygoza, and Pat Chou, Product Managers, Transceiver Module Group In Part 1 of this 3-part blog series, we talked about the breadth of Cisco’s transceiver and platform portfolio. Here in Part 2, we describe how Cisco is dedicated to and uniquely positioned to…

Written by Patrick Murray, Cisco  Sales Director – Media For media content creators and broadcasters, speed from content creation to delivery is a business imperative. The Cisco Media Blue Print solutions were engineered to help media broadcasters enable their media workflows with expanding, i…

5G will bring much more than unprecedented speed. The 5G architecture will profoundly transform the way we experience our homes and cities, will make enterprises smart, highly efficient and create value in ways never imagined before. Today, consumer expectations for a faster, smarter, more convenien…