video

February 19, 2014

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Corporate Video Enhances Your Communication Strategy: “The Ordinary Message in Extraordinary Ways”

I dare you not to communicate. Go ahead, I dare you. Try it. Try not to reach over to your smartphone. Try not to open a new e-mail. Try not to type a quick instant message. Try… My point is you can’t not communicate. Yes, I realize the blaring double negative, but it’s true! Communication is innate…

February 18, 2014

EXECUTIVE PLATFORM

Executing on Virtualization

With all the talk around virtualization in our industry, it’s easy to get a bit confused.  Between our industry’s love of acronyms and passionate evangelism of technological specs, it can be far too difficult at times to determine what’s really important, what is real, and what is just talk.  Our an…

February 17, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

The Low Rumble of the 4K Resolution Revolution

It hasn’t been all that long since HD-quality video gained widespread acceptance as an industry standard. Yet a new resolution standard is capturing the attention of the broadcast world. It’s known as 4K (or Ultra High Definition – UHD), and it offers viewers four times the picture resolution of sta…

February 17, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Milestones in Cisco Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Deployments

The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) confirms much of what we already know: Service providers will need to carry more video traffic to more devices delivered as unique on-demand streams. All at the time and place of the end-user’s choosing. But the sheer scale of this demand makes interesting rea…

January 31, 2014

NETWORKING

Is Your WLAN Ready for Unified Communications & Collaboration?

As Wi-Fi continues to be the primary mode of access, enterprise Unified Communication(UC) applications usage is increasing with smartphones, tablets and laptops. Customers are asking, is there anything I can do to prioritize Jabber or Lync traffic over others or even identify how much of the traffic…

January 29, 2014

HEALTHCARE

Cisco Extended Care Improves Patient Engagement

Cisco’s new Extended Care Solution enables patient engagement and care team collaboration at any time and from anywhere including home, office and other remote locations.  Cisco Extended Care is a new browser-based health and wellness collaboration solution platform that features ad hoc and schedule…

January 22, 2014

TECHWISETV

Content Marketing (Made Easy)

Content is one thing. Marketing is another. The two are straightforward on their own but significantly more complex when combined. What we do at TechWiseTV is content marketing. But its still a work in progress. My friend Amy Lewis (@commsninja) tweeted an article by Tracy Vides on ‘How Conten…

January 15, 2014

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Israeli Pay TV Innovator Yes Launches Mobile TV Service with Cisco Videoscape

Israeli subscribers to satellite TV provider yes can now view 60+ channels of live/linear video, and thousands of on-demand titles, on devices well beyond the television set — and they can do so inside and outside of their homes. It kicked off on December 23, when yes announced its “yesGO” ser…

Connecting Everything at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show

By Joe Cozzolino, SVP and GM, Cisco Service Provider Video Infrastructure Right now, in North America, home security is the leading beachhead into the Internet of Everything (IoE) landscape. AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Rogers, among others, moved into homes this year with advanced secur…