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Active Media Demands an Agile Infrastructure

One thing is crystal clear, Media companies are creating an incredible amount of content, and they’re creating more and more of that content. This data is accumulated in huge libraries and retained for long periods. Access to this data is required on a regular basis, but the old way of long te…

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…

A More Efficient Media Operation Starts Where? If You Said “In the Cloud,” Take the Rest of the Day Off!

And now this, from the Department of the Obvious: The media and entertainment industry is transitioning. It’s a transition that’s happening as a result of the need to deliver content more quickly and in a higher quality — and there is no better way to do it than streamlining the content produc…

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: On Pivoting, Commitment, Media, And Elephants

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” – Abraham Lincoln As we finalize our presence at the upcoming NAB Show in Las Vegas, it occurred to me it’s our first NAB since we made some major and definitely noticeable changes to our strategy / intentions relating to Media and Entertainm…

March 12, 2019

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Digital Transformation: How Cisco and our Partner Ecosystem are driving Innovation in Sports!

March is an awesome time to be a sports fan! There are tons of games to watch including basketball, hockey, soccer for everyone, plus the start of baseball, and of course the year-round presences of Esports. Whether its teams making the final push towards the post-season, like in basketball, or in s…

February 13, 2019

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Digital Transformation: Lessons Learned at Cisco’s Media and Entertainment Industry Roundtable

Recently I had the great opportunity to host and moderate Cisco’s most recent Media Roundtable in Barcelona, Spain in conjunction with Cisco Live EMEAR with over 30 attendees.  During this event we had representation from some of the leading European Media organizations and partners including…