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If you compare any video streamer to a reasonably new PC, then you will find that the PC spec is far superior to that of the streamer. But when it comes to actually viewing premium content – I mean 4K/UHD stuff – then streamers are clearly winning over the mighty PCs, including those used as game co…

Allow me to get straight to the point: You’re reading this because you’re either at or interested in the goings-on of what we used to call “the broadcast industry,” and is now broadened to “content,” “media,” “video,” and so on. It is an industry that dates back 70+ years, depending on when you star…

The digital age has ushered in a new and exciting time for the media industry. It’s great for consumers who now have their pick of affordable, high-quality content from any device, anywhere, at any time. It’s great for media organizations that have embraced digitization and can respond rapidly to gi…

For media organizations, your time is now! The shift from SDI to IP is enabling you to be more agile, operate at a lower cost, and gain the flexibility to deliver premium 4K/UHD content to subscribers on virtually any device at anytime, anywhere. From the time content is acquired, put through produc…

Brace for a thriving, lets-go vibe at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, as the leaders in television, media and entertainment solidify their respective entries into the cloud-based, Internet Protocol-heavy, viewer-focused scene. Why is someone from Cisco making tha…

Scale, speed, new consumer experiences — these goals all come to mind as drivers of the massive transformation happening in media & entertainment. When it comes to the underlying IP and cloud technology needed to bring this transformation to life, Cisco has a unique ability to deliver comp…

It’s April, and that means it’s time to pack back out to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters convention, scheduled for the last week of the month. And because we’ve lots to talk about, and you probably have limited time, I’m motivated to keep this one tight. I’ll start with the mo…

A little about me: I’m a Scorpio, a New Yorker, and am opening a new plant-based Mexican restaurant in China Town with my husband this month.  Oh, and in August I will have celebrated my 11th anniversary with Cisco. In the past decade, I have had the privilege of working with some of the most incred…

I’ll make a bet. If you ask any of the leaders in broadcast television to sum up this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in three words, they would say: IP, Virtualization, and HDR. And that’s no surprise. Collectively, our entire video ecosystem is searching for ways to ap…