United States: Cisco Debuts Video Transcoder, Enhances TelePresence.Byline: sujit03 Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Inc. (CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) today announced a set of technologies, dubbed medianet, which it claims drive functions such as transcoding of video for use on multiple consumer devices, including PCs, mobile devices and digital signs. Cisco also announced an enhancement to its TelePresence Meaning "long distance presence," it refers to videoconferencing applications that feel like a live meeting. Notable features are larger screens that may approach a virtual reality environment and sensors that keep at least one window focused on whomever is speaking at the moment. video conferencing system that enables its use over satellite communication systems. The vendor provided neither pricing nor availability for the new products and enhancements. The first Cisco Media Processing system, driven by medianet, is the Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE MXE ModelSim Xilinx Edition MXE Macro Express ) 3000, which delivers the ability to transcode (1) To convert from one format to another. It implies conversion between very distinct kinds of data, such as from speech into text or from analog video into digital frames. Sometimes the term is used as nothing more than a fancier synonym for "convert. a single source of content so that it is playable on any device, according to the vendor. Cisco added that the MXE also delivers production and processing capabilities. Video transcoding is key to bandwidth and storage savings and performance. It converts the content into different formats used to by different viewing devices. The networking vendor also announced video-specific findings from the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI VNI Visual Numerics Inc VNI Valeur Nette d'Inventaire (French) VNI Village Networks Inc. VNI Virtual Network Interface VNI Viet Nam international VNI Visual Numerics Inc. ) Forecast for 2007-2012. Cisco claims they provide insights on consumer and business IP networking trends driven largely by the increasing use of video and Web 2.0 social networking and collaboration applications. The findings/projections include: 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. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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