Cisco gears up for the Internet to become the 'medianet'

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 09 December 2008 08:28

Business IT - Technology

- A media processing platform for businesses that Cisco claims will simplify live and on-demand media sharing across PCs, mobile devices and other digital screens by seamlessly formatting video and rich media for viewing on any device.

"The create once and share anywhere Cisco Media Experience Engine 3000 provides media conversion, real-time post production, editing, formatting, and network distribution capabilities in a single networked solution to help businesses develop targeted visual communications that drive intimacy with employees and customers," Cisco said.

- The addition of an Advanced Video Services Module (AVSM) to Cisco's new Aggregation Services Router, the ASR 9000. This is billed as "a major innovation enabling terabytes of streaming capacity at the aggregation edge while simultaneously offering content caching, ad insertion, fast channel change and error correction."

According to Cisco, it "eliminates the need for standalone content-delivery network elements and inherits all the high-availability characteristics of the router, which optimises the network insertion point for advanced content services and moves content sourcing closer to the consumer."

- Cisco has introduced Cisco TelePresence over Satellite to enable connections where high-bandwidth wired connections are unavailable. and the delivery of multipoint intercompany capabilities for its Telepresence videoconferencing technology.

Telepresence over Satellite was recently demonstrated in partnership with Verizon and Wal-Mart to connect troops in Afghanistan and Iraq with their families in the United States.