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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…

October 31, 2018

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

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…

NAB 2018: here’s what you saw with the Cisco team

Sleep deprived?  If you are one of 200 or so people on my flight back to NYC from Vegas, you sure as heck are!  With another successful NAB in the books, vendors and customers alike make the great trek home, a little worse for the wear.  A week of non-stop meetings, events, solution showcasing, non-…