video quality

Attending the Pay TV Show in Denver next week? If so, don’t miss Wednesday’s 1:40pm panel Streaming Video Everywhere: Quality & Reliability at Hyatt Regency in Denver, Colorado.  I’ll moderate the discussion and we’ll dive deep into a wide range of technologies taking Adaptive Bit Ra…

At Mobile World Congress we’re launching 5G Now!, because the opportunity to deliver premium, high bandwidth service is already with us. We know that video is going to make up over 80% of all mobile traffic and that one-third of that traffic will be high-quality content. Consumers are spending more…

On the surface, it seems counter-intuitive: Save bandwidth while improving video quality? It reminds me of something my grandfather used to say: “You can’t swim and be dry at the same time, can you?” The riddle that is quantity vs. quality goes way back. Think back to the VCR. They used to have a ph…

It’s always exciting preparing for an event like IBC. As we’re taking new products and solutions to the market there has to be a balance between informing those who are starting to look at a new vertical or opportunity, compared to those who have already launched new services. By going out to the wi…

Sometimes you get the opportunity to walk away from the Cisco booth to see – and feel – what’s energizing the industry. From NAB 2017, here are a few of my walkaway takeaways: 1. NAB isn’t just for “traditional broadcasters” anymore. This year, the transition of IP deeper into the video food chain c…

Network Management is dull.  No excuses.  Monitoring and interacting with the devices that move data from one location to another is a thankless undertaking that most of us building networks leave to an afterthought.  Part of that is the complexity associated with managing networks.  There are at le…