Service Provider

Video Consumption Is Going Mobile – T-Mobile Binge On

Imagine that about 24 months ago that T-Mobile US was rumored to be up for sale. Since that time T-Mobile has become one of the most disruptive forces in mobile video delivery industry. Not stopping there, the “Un-carrier” just announced last week that they are expanding the Binge On service for the…

Mobile Video Consumption Is Going Crazy – A New Approach for Mobile Video Services

Mobile has fast become the consumer’s first device, they wake up in the morning and check their mobile smartphone for the time, email, daily schedule, news, messages, and so it comes as no surprise that mobile video is growing quickly as another service on their devices. Today however consumers pay…

How Does a Mobile Operator Manage Video Traffic and Make Money at It?

Mobile has fast become the consumer’s first device. We wake up in the morning and turn off our alarm clock app on it. We then check our emails, our Facebook accounts, then news on our mobile device, all before we get out of bed. So it comes as no surprise that mobile video is quickly growing as yet…

The Benefits of DOCSIS 3.1

DOCSIS 3.1 has finally arrived! After years of talk and development, we are finally beginning to see the initial roll-outs of this next-generation technology.  A few years have passed since the benefits of DOCSIS 3.1 were touted.  Are those benefits still relevant today? It is worth revisiting what…

Simplify your managed services and grow your market

Delivering Managed network services now costs less than ever. Whole new markets are ready and waiting for the benefits they bring. It took years for alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar power, to become affordable to consumers and profitable for providers. The same is true of managed n…

Cisco Service Quality Management for Cable and Media

By Jan Bogaert, BDM, Service Provider Cable and Media, Cisco Services Two important consumer trends that have a high impact on the way Content and Service Providers and Cable MSO’s need to manage the E2E Service experience of their customers are: Ever increasing media consumption on any device and…

Don’t look back in ANGA

OK, I accept it’s a poor pun, but there’s never been a better time to use it! We are at ANGA COM this week, where we’ll be showing our Infinite Home and Infinite Video solutions on the Cisco stand. A few of us will also be speaking at the conference, one of the hot topics being the impact that cloud…

Enterprise cloud services are changing. Are you ready to adapt?

Forget trying to offer cost savings, you need to meet your customers where they are today, not where they were two years ago. And that means helping them solve a wider range of business problems. Just a few years ago, cloud services were all about dollars and cents. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS…

Building an Experience-Centric Network

By Melissa Zelyez, Cisco Marketing Manager Why are 50% of all businesses open to changing cloud providers? Service providers can be the top choice, if they prepare now… Today most businesses currently using cloud services do so through cloud providers, value-added resellers (VAR), system integrator…