NAB 2018

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-…

NAB Show Day 3: Getting married, or getting a media ecosystem?

One of the great things about NAB Show is the opportunity to learn more about your colleagues. Chatting to one of her colleagues, it came up she had wedding insurance for her marriage next year. I hadn’t come across this previously but it’s a great idea. This is a major event in someone’s life and r…

NAB Show Day 2: I didn’t want to join the circus

Working in the media has always required a varied skill set and flexible approach. Often you need to come up with new and innovative ways to respond to the rapidly emerging demands of new devices and services. There are lots of solutions out there but they increasingly need you to use multiple tools…

NAB Show Day 1 Recap: From Ice Cream to IP

This year at NAB Show, one of the coolest things – quite literally – on the Cisco stand is our ice cream roller. You can see how the ice cream is transformed from a liquid into rolls of vanilla loveliness in front of your eyes, and then you get to try it for yourself. But what’s this got…

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…