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Videoscape: Bringing social media and mobility to your TV


Bangalore: Cisco has launched a comprehensive TV platform called the Cisco Videoscape that combines digital TV with online content from social media and communication applications. Videoscape is part of Cisco's overall video strategy to provide the next generation of TV that simplifies consumer experience and creates market opportunities for service providers.The TV platform from Cisco is an open platform that makes use of the the cloud, the network, and client devices to deliver new video experiences over the Internet. The new elements of Videoscape in the home include media gateway, IP set-top box, and software clients. The media gateway integrates voice, linear and online video, high-speed data, Wi-Fi and network traffic routing while the IP set-top box is engineered to support all video forms delivered to a TV, including pay TV, broadcast channels, premium channels, VoD and the Web.

The Videoscape Media Suite offers full life-cycle content management through the cloud. This helps service providers to efficiently and cost-effectively manage and publish content across multiple screens. The new product family from Cisco works in conjunction with its existing portfolio of network products.

Pankaj Patel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Service Provider Group, Cisco said on the launch of the product, "Consumers are looking for a personalized TV experience that can be taken with them irrespective of location or device. Cisco Videoscape is the only entertainment solution available today that delivers this experience in full scope, combining all the necessary technology components of the cloud, the network and client devices."

For the consumers, Videoscape delivers access to various entertainment content sources, including broadcast channels, pay TV and the Web while the service providers are set to benefit through it by expanding business models and extended service reach.

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