Service Provider

Here’s one of the big questions facing cable operators today – can their existing HFC infrastructure, built on a proprietary analog network, meet their evolving technical and business requirements? Once an integral component of the cable access architecture, the proprietary analog network is now the…

The data from an integrated video platform has huge potential to make advertising more effective. Updating their video infrastructure makes it possible for telecoms companies to supply the flexible and personalised services that their customers increasingly expect. That’s a pretty big deal – but it’…

Written by Shawn Tylka, Cable & Media Field Marketing Lead Cisco is committed to the transformation underway in media, a vibrant and growing industry, and the National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB) is a key opportunity for us to show off what we have been up to and how we are helping ad…

Unbeatable video quality and intelligent content discovery are two key elements of a great customer experience. Online video is a competitive market, with many different companies providing similar services. But there’s one way that businesses really can stand out – and that’s by providing a memorab…

Our last blogs highlighted the success factors for SDN & NFV transformation and the three pathways to Service Provider (SP) transformation. Many of you have responded to the results of the study. While the research was a qualitative look at issues facing SPs as they adopt NFV and SDN, we will fo…

Double Digit Spend with Single-Digit Growth Across North America, cable operators face the same challenge of driving down network complexity and operating costs. The math is simple, how can they continue to spend in the double digits to support bandwidth demands, while only recouping single digit re…

Intelligent, threat-centric security gives businesses the confidence to create new, flexible video services To understand the importance of video security, we only need to take a look at the amount of revenue lost through unauthorised access to content each year. A report commissioned by the Motion…

Technology Limitations: Today’s Cable Access Network Today, cable operators support a broad range of last-mile networks — fiber, PON, and Ethernet. They’d like to use their substantial network assets to introduce new offerings and expand their business models, however with the current cable network…

OK, if you’re not thinking that I have lost my mind you are perhaps thinking, “How can my customers guide me with SDN and NFV?”.  If you look at it from the technology viewpoint, you are correct!  Your customers don’t specifically care about SDN and NFV nor any other technological mumbo jumbo and mo…