New Cisco Solns To Drive Medianets Optimised For Video

New technologies and solutions from Cisco will enable Internet Protocol (IP) networks to become the platform for a new generation of video and rich media applications and services. This new class of technologies is designed to enable advanced communications, collaboration and entertainment experiences through video- and rich media-optimised service provider, business, and home networks, known as ‘medianets’.

Data-based communications are being replaced by video and rich media, which is straining the architectural foundations of both public and private networks serving consumers and businesses.
“The Internet and IP networks as we know them are changing,” said Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco’s Emerging Technologies group. “In the near future, 90 percent of consumer network traffic will be video and rich media, and new medianet technologies and devices will drive the evolution not only to new networks, but immersive new experiences made possible by combining video, rich media, voice and data on a single networked platform. As businesses look to reduce costs and increase productivity, medianet solutions will enable new methods of networked collaboration and virtualisation, such as seamless language translations over Cisco TelePresence, which will eliminate communication barriers in the workplace.”

Additionally, video-specific findings from the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast for 2007-2012 have also been released, providing new insights on business IP networking trends driven largely by the increasing use of video and Web 2.0 social networking and collaboration applications:

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-- Professional/traditional broadcast video content will become 80 percent of all Internet video viewed on PCs/laptops by 2012

-- Traffic associated with user-generated video content will triple from 2008 to 2012

-- More than 4 billion video streams per month will be delivered through Internet-enabled set-top boxes by 2012 (Internet-enabled set-top boxes include IPTV set-tops, next-generation cable set-tops, gaming consoles, and third-party standalone set-tops.)

-- Global VoD traffic more than doubled from 2007 to 2008 (increased by a factor of 2.4)

“Video is a transformational force in the world today,” said Tony Bates, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Service Provider business group. “We are seeing enterprises embracing the power of video to foster better communications, entertainment and information gathering. Cisco foresees a new generation of Internet-based video and multimedia experiences running on medianets that will create new opportunities for service providers, content providers, and businesses – and entirely new experiences for consumers.”

Advanced Network-Based Media Processing

Cisco’s Emerging Technologies group has announced a media processing platform for businesses that simplifies 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 ASR 9000

Cisco’s new ASR 9000 incorporates the Cisco Advanced Video Services Module (AVSM), an innovation enabling terabytes of streaming capacity at the aggregation edge while simultaneously offering content caching, ad insertion, fast channel change and error correction. The Cisco AVSM 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.

Enhanced Capabilities for Cisco TelePresence Systems

Cisco has introduced Cisco TelePresence over Satellite to enable connections where high-bandwidth wired connections are unavailable.

Cisco has also announced the delivery of multipoint intercompany capabilities, increased encryption for all Cisco TelePresence calls and the availability of Cisco TelePresence Expert on Demand.