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Cisco Unveils System for Enterprises to Distribute Video Widely
As online video consumption soars, enterprises have begun realizing that video is a key part of the way they communicate internally. But because video is a bandwidth-heavy application that can quickly drive up network costs while degrading quality, video is a whole new challenge for IT managers. That's the context for a set of products Cisco is announcing this morning called Enterprise Content Delivery System (ECDS).
ECDS is a set of hardware appliances, software and management services that optimize both on-demand and live video to any device. Use cases for enterprises are varied, and include training, executive-level communications, meetings, events and customer interactions among others. Each one of these situations create different challenges such as which office video originates from, how many users will be involved, which other assets are part of the video package, etc.
IT faces the challenges of delivering and scaling each video event cost-effectively without affecting other mission-critical apps that are running on the network. One of the important things ECDS enables is for supporting video files to be cached locally during off-peak hours to reduce bandwidth consumption. So if there are training videos or a customer highlight reel that will be shown during a broadcast, it would have been pre-delivered.
Coincidentally ECDS follows yesterday's Facebook-Skype partnership, with both underscoring how pervasive video communications are becoming, whether inside enterprises or across social interactions.
Categories: Technology
Topics: Cisco
