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Cisco Showcases Media Blueprint at IBC Amsterdam

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…

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…

Cisco @ IBC 2018 Show-verview: From Broadcast to Film to Sports, the Media Industrialization Era Is Accelerating

Hi, it’s Rog. The kids are back in school and the last summer holiday weekend is upon us, which can only mean one thing: It’s time for 60,000 or so of us to pack our bags for Amsterdam, and IBC. And my job, in this blog, is to impart my take on what’s going to be happening when we all get there, in…

Visit Cisco at IBC 2018 to Learn How We are Industrializing the Media Industry in EMEAR

The media and entertainment industry is moving through a hugely transformative phase as it embraces IP and cloud technologies to address new challenges in an increasingly competitive, and complex, market environment. This digitization process is having an impact on all regions of the world, and its…

September 17, 2017

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IBC 2017: A Media Blueprint for the Intersection of Sports and the Transition to IP

Written by Joey Bischof, Sales Lead – Sports Broadcaster & Leagues Sports: Few (if any!) other categories of live entertainment garner as much “return on emotion,” to borrow a clever phrase coined by my colleagues over at EVS. And they’re right. Consider this: Sports is the least time-shif…

September 16, 2017

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IBC 2017: Cloudian, Cisco, and Important Trends in Media Storage

It’s been a few months since we’ve reported in on the storage trends we’re seeing in the media and entertainment segment. Last time was at the 2017 NAB Show, in April, when object-based storage was the big thing (still is.) Why, because more and more content providers want a way to store video in th…

September 14, 2017

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IBC 2017: On Making Deposits into the Broadcast/Media Ecosystem

It’s the last holiday weekend of the summer as I write this, on a perfect afternoon, filled with no prior engagements, or camp pickups/drop-offs. Excellent conditions for blogging. As I consider how to characterize the “state of the state,” as it relates to the technology partner “ecosystem” of the…

September 12, 2017

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Is the glass half empty or half full?

IBC is here again. And so just before all the noise begins, perhaps it’s a good time to take a step back and look at where the pay video industry, and service providers in particular, are going. So let’s get one thing clear; video is still the king of entertainment. Yes, the industry is changing, it…

September 20, 2016

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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…