ip traffic

At Cisco Live 2019 in San Diego this week, you can learn about the latest networking technology at the sessions, browse new products and solutions at the World of Solutions, and even party with Foo Fighters and Weezer at the Cisco Live Celebration! Speaking of the World of Solutions, you’ll fi…

By Bart Van Daele, product marketing, video processing at Synamedia With NAB in full force, it would be an epic fail not to swing through the Cisco booth (and Synamedia’s along the way: SU10125). As Jacob pointed out last week, “exciting” is the best way to describe what you can see in these booths…

MPLS+SDN+NFV World Congress – ‘understanding the software defined wave.’ At this annual forum in Paris, France, a group of diverse industry experts gathered to discuss the latest trends in transformative technology, including automation, transforming customer experience, intent-based networking, and…

Part 3: What does it take to win in an OTT world? In my previous post of this trilogy, I explained why I think that OTT video on the unmanaged network (aka. the Internet) is here to stay. Moreover, I suggested that by combining the advantages of Video-Over-IP with those of Video-Over–Broadcast, serv…

Part 2: What does it take to win in an OTT world? In the first blog of this trilogy, I wrote that pay TV providers do not seem to perceive OTT video as a threat to their business. Well one thing’s for sure; there is plenty that we can learn from OTT video providers. They certainly brought new standa…

Part 1: What does it take to win in an OTT world? In this blog trilogy, I will try to shed some light on one of the more intriguing topics in the video industry– OTT video. I will discuss the reality of OTT video, the service provider’s perception of it, the future of the paid video industry and wh…

No, this is not a greeting card holiday for which gifts are given (at least not yet)… but it is quite a milestone of IP traffic growth. The Internet and all things IP have become ubiquitous in our lives over the last 20 years with seemingly everything either being connected or planned to be.  And ho…

It’s often said that “apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” – and my “apple” has fallen very close to me. This summer, my 18-year-old daughter earned the opportunity to work as an intern at Cisco. As a 20-year Cisco veteran, my daughter’s internship inspired me to reflect on my career experiences in…

This weekend, I evinced a big change in my youngest daughter. She emerged from her summer couch potato cocoon and blossomed into an active youngster chasing after fictional creatures in natural sunlight. Within 2 days of its launch, Pokémon Go had number of users almost at par with Twitter, the popu…