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Cisco “Show-verview” for NAB 2019 in Las Vegas
It’s NAB time, and we’re excited to bring you a series of blogs detailing our intentions and presence at this year’s show. As we put the finishing touches on our Vegas plan, it seemed useful to try to capture it all in one place – a “show-verview,” if you will. Let’s start with where we’ll be: Booth…
NAB 2019: A Sneak Peek at What’s In Our Booth This Year
Man, am I excited about this year’s NAB! I’m serious. Telling a technological story that involves phrases like “driving adoption of IP and cloud-based workflows within the media supply chain” isn’t the easiest thing to get excited about, as you may have guessed (or experienced yourself.) But! The ex…
Unleash a more dynamic network – IP Fabric for Media
In my previous post, I noted the hastening of the ‘content cadence’, in terms of the volume and speed at which new TV shows and films are vying for our individual and collective attention. And when a faster pace is one of the goals, it’s vital to streamline content production. One aspect of producti…
Straight Talk About the IP Transition in Media
By now it’s clear that IP-based technologies are threading into the media supply chain with alacrity, whether we’re talking about content ingest, signal processing, or distribution. That’s good, because of the flexibility and collaborative power IP brings to just about everything – from how content…
NAB 2019: How Balance Matters in Media and Entertainment
I think this will be my 15th or so NAB, and each year it’s both exciting and intriguing to see the Media & Entertainment industry shift, pivot and evolve. I love the newness that comes about: The investment patterns companies are making, and the start-ups showcasing the next great rounds of inno…
Building a Next-Generation Broadcast Engineering Team
It’s a great time for the media and entertainment industry. New technologies mean service providers can create and deliver more content than ever before. Content is taking on new forms, and mobility and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) are changing delivery methods. More content means more…
Achieving FLEXIBILITY @SCALE with Cisco IP Fabric for Media
It’s an exciting time to be part of the broadcast industry’s transition to IP. Why? Because, with the recent releases for the Cisco IP Fabric for Media (NX-OS 9.2.1 and Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) 11.0(1)), we have reached another significant milestone helping our customers successfully migra…
Cisco @NAB 2018: Driving Operational Excellence by Industrializing the Media Ecosystem
The run-up to the 2018 National Association of Broadcasters Show is once again upon us, which means it’s time to preview what we’ll be focused on, in our booth and around the NAB Show floor. It’s a preview that necessarily relies on a string of industrial progressions, from SDI (serial digital inter…