Cisco will provide a high-bandwidth, high performance connection between Vancouver and NBC studios in New York.

The European Commission has waved through Cisco’s $5 billion purchase of UK-based middleware and content security vendor NDS.

The IT world took one step closer to converging with the broadcast market with this week's announcement that networking equipment giant Cisco Systems is acquiring Scientific-Atlanta for $6.9 billion. According to the deal, Cisco will pay $43 per share in cash in exchange for each share of S-A, and assume outst

IP network giant Cisco estimates that the use of video over global consumer IP networks will grow from 22 percent in 2007 to nearly 90 percent of all consumer IP traffic by 2012.

The new IP encoding platform includes the Cisco D9094 MPEG-4 advanced video coding (AVC) encoder, which was developed by Fujitsu. 

Online network equipment maker Cisco Systems is jumping into the HD videoconferencing system and dubbing it "TelePresence." Cisco has been expanding lately from its core business of routers and switches into related fields, especially regarding video. In early 2006, Cisco bought cable STB maker Scientific Atlanta. Cis

Cisco Systems plans to acquire the assets of the STB manufacturer for $6.9 billion