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Video in the Classroom? The possibilities are endless.
Located on the eastern banks of the Hudson River, just minutes from Albany, New York’s capital city, Troy, N.Y., is home to some very imaginative and talented educators and students. They’re using video solutions to open a “window to the world,” and they’re seeing some amazing results. Video technol…
Securing the Video Streaming Business
It is that time of year again; leaves are turning, the air is crisp, and every week teams from the National Football League line up to participate in the ‘ultimate team sport’, American football. As a lifelong fan, I watch every Patriots game and I am certainly not alone. It is that diehard devotio…
Cisco Small Business and Golf!
This is a quick wrap-up as we wish Brian, our fine Wireless Product Manager good luck this weekend as he plays in his hometown city golf tournament. We have been fortunate to have multiple calls over the last two weeks with our regional teams including Brazilian Marketing Team and the Sales…
Health IT innovations come to life at virtual event
After a while, all of the hopeful press on futuristic health technology can start to feel like, well, hype. Breathless headlines touting telemedicine, artificial intelligence, and related technologies sound cool—but somewhat disconnected from reality. Last week, these perceptions were shattered duri…
IBC 2017: A Media Blueprint for the Intersection of Sports and the Transition to IP
Written by Joey Bischof, Sales Lead – Sports Broadcaster & Leagues Sports: Few (if any!) other categories of live entertainment garner as much “return on emotion,” to borrow a clever phrase coined by my colleagues over at EVS. And they’re right. Consider this: Sports is the least time-shif…
Looking for the most refined weapon to combat piracy? Use data
By Orly Amsalem, data scientist at Cisco Who is Stealing Credentials? Imagine a hacker. You’re probably visualizing a blurred image in a white mask or a black hoodie, typing lines of code, determined to hack into secure sites, steal credit cards, and collect valuable, previously private data. Now i…
IBC 2017: On Making Deposits into the Broadcast/Media Ecosystem
It’s the last holiday weekend of the summer as I write this, on a perfect afternoon, filled with no prior engagements, or camp pickups/drop-offs. Excellent conditions for blogging. As I consider how to characterize the “state of the state,” as it relates to the technology partner “ecosystem” of the…
Strong Partners Make Strong Solutions
Authored by Tracy Geist, Head of Global Partner Strategy – Service Provider Video It’s been 9 months since I joined Cisco to lead efforts around partner strategy for video. Having spent more than 25 years in the world of digital television, pay-tv, and the evolution of video distribution and…
Is the glass half empty or half full?
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…
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