Cisco unveils Internet TV and more at CES

Cisco unveiled a suite of video products designed to combine digital TV, online content, social media and other communications applications into an all-inclusive home and mobile video session.

Suite of video products designed to combine digital TV

Cisco this week unveiled a suite of video products designed to combine digital TV, online content, social media and other communications applications into an all-inclusive home and mobile video session.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Cisco rolled out Videoscape, a platform targeted at service providers looking to offer video services as a new revenue stream. Cisco is currently working with Telstra and several other service providers to build consumer video services using Videoscape.

Videoscape utilizes cloud computing, IP networking and client devices and software to deliver Internet-based video services. It is expected to compete with Internet TV platforms from Google, Microsoft and Apple, among others.

In the home, Videoscape includes a media gateway to integrate voice, video, high-speed data, WiFi and network traffic routing; an IP set-top box to support all forms of video delivered to a TV, including pay TV, broadcast channels, premium channels, video-on-demand and Web; and client software for home and mobile devices, including TVs, tablets and smartphones.

For cloud networks, the Videoscape Media Suite provides lifecycle content management so service providers can publish content across multiple screens. And in the network, the Cisco Conductor for Videoscape is designed to orchestrate various services and subscriber-management functions across the cloud, network and client devices.