Cisco Launches “Cisco Live” Building on Success of Networkers Customer Conference

Cisco Launches “Cisco Live” Building on Success of Networkers Customer Conference

Cisco® today announced a significant enhancement to its Content Delivery System (CDS), adding Internet streaming media capabilities that allow service providers to offer an ever-expanding scope of online content to help meet their customers’ expectations of accessing any content, anywhere, anytime and on any device.

The enhanced Cisco CDS offers much more than other video-on-demand and streaming systems. The Cisco CDS Internet Streaming solution incorporates applications for delivering video to digital televisions and set-top boxes as well as delivering video, voice, music and data to a wide range of Internet Protocol (IP) devices such as personal computers, Wi-Fi-connected mobile phones and personal digital assistants.

This solution is part of the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP NGN), an architecture based on international standards and industry best practice. The Cisco IP NGN is a converged network designed to deliver next-generation video, voice, data services while adding mobility to all services. The IP NGN design for video service delivery is a flexible platform for the delivery of a wide array of traditional and emerging video applications. The Cisco CDS uniquely delivers personalized services to both set-top boxes and IP devices; it empowers service providers to transform themselves into experience providers that can deliver “The Connected Life” to their customers.

“In today’s competitive landscape, service providers need to provide a differentiated, highly personalized customer experience,” said Paul Bosco, vice president of cable and video initiatives, Cisco. “By incorporating the Cisco Internet Streaming solution directly into our Content Delivery System, Cisco is providing flexible and powerful options to increase customer satisfaction and help enable service providers to deploy a variety of next-generation, value-added video entertainment services and much more.”

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