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Written by Patrick Murray, Cisco  Sales Director – Media For media content creators and broadcasters, speed from content creation to delivery is a business imperative. The Cisco Media Blue Print solutions were engineered to help media broadcasters enable their media workflows with expanding, i…

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…

#IBC2018 The Cisco SP Video Software & Solution team is prepping eighteen demos across five domains. These demo slots will fill-up fast! Ask your Cisco rep or any listed author to book your meeting.  This post shares a perspective on Next-gen Distribution and Control. Check out the Cisco D9800 N…

The pay TV landscape is changing. This is not news, obviously. But the pace of the change, how it’s shaping the industry and most importantly, understanding how TV operators are reacting to it are making things really interesting. Let’s level-set, first, to see if the change is indeed already here.…

IBC is here again. And so just before all the noise begins, perhaps it’s a good time to take a step back and look at where the pay video industry, and service providers in particular, are going. So let’s get one thing clear; video is still the king of entertainment. Yes, the industry is changing, it…

This is an exciting time to be in Media. You don’t always hear vendors cheering consolidation. Often because 1+1 = 1 less customer. But not in this case: our strategic customer Disney is purchasing a majority (75%) stake in our strategic customer BAMTech, gaining control of the direct-to-consumer OT…

In the past few years there have been all kinds of interesting crowdfunding projects – namely enlisting the masses to raise funds for new innovative ideas. In fact, this has been recognized as a powerful mechanism for launching new products. One particularly unusual (not to say galling) crowdfunding…

In our previous blog post—on the scope of illegal streaming—we analyzed one of the forums that hosts illegal streaming server offers and concluded that it reaches at least 285,000 viewers. That’s an impressive figure. But what does it mean in financial terms? Or to be more specific, how much are pir…

By Aunindo Ghosh Fifty countries, 4.5 billion people, and a multitude of cultures and economies. Asia Pacific is indeed as varied as it is vast. And that variation includes the way people watch TV. But if there is one thread that binds everyone in this region, it has to be the explosive growth of Mo…