Cisco launched an GoogleTV Killer.
January 15th 2011 12:22
At CES 2011, Cisco Systems finally unveiled a suite of hardware and software to blend TV and web content, and emerges as a potential GoogleTV rival. This could be Cisco’s answer to GoogleTV; after years of preparation and hard works, Cisco finally unveiled Videoscape. Videoscape will compete with GoogleTV and other solutions. Cisco Systems is building digital TV components it hopes to sell to service providers, Cisco want to challenge GoogleTV and other systems aiming for the convergence of web and TV content. The product represents a convergence of internet, cable TV and communications that are expected to spur competition. Cisco is betting hard on consumer space. Its already has taken a step into the consumer space with its acquisition of PureDigital, which created the Flip personal camera. Cisco officials have said they expect the use of video over the internet to grow rapidly over the next couple of years to the point where it will account for more than 90% of traffic over the web. Cisco reportedly is growing it capabilities, including an effort to bring its technology into the home. According to Cisco, Videoscape will help consumers search for access and manage internet video, cable TV, video conferencing and other features. At CES 2011 in Las Vegas, CEO Chambers took center stage to unveil the much anticipated Videoscape, a potential ” GoogleTV killer”. Chambers said Videoscape would help consumers watch any of their subscribed TV content from any devices, from TVs, tablets computers, to smart phones. The company thinks the future is going to be about reinventing the TV, something that rival like Google can’t do. This was the shot in the arm the entire tech sector have been waiting for. Cisco officials have been talking for years about bringing their technology into the home, a move that would bring it into much closer competition with likes of Google, Skype and solution vendors. The next major trend in unifying consumer platforms will likely be the TV. Despite challenges and past failures in this area, we expect Cisco to get the formula right and transition TVs into a new paradigm. And the timing is great, I’m sure the company will make a sleeper hit here.
Cisco is tech royalty. But it achieved success through innovation such as UCS, video communications and networking gear which have made the company an industry benchmark. With the recent launch of Videoscape, Cisco is proving once again that it’s a wildly successful company that enjoying a level of popularity that hasn’t been matched by any other firm in the industry. The company continues to show off the best looking product space without a single competitor coming close to matching it. The reason is just simple: Cisco I swilling to spend cash on the right technologies to make its product great and unique, witnessed its blockbuster acquisition of Tandberg for $3.4 billion, Cisco acquired Tandberg to grow its video communications business. I’m sure Videoscape will make a strong hit in the market. It’s a great product something that even Google couldn’t match. Cisco could do something that no other firm in the industry can do: it makes the consumers, enterprise customers and even the media expect the unexpected. It doesn’t simply follow a roadmap that so many other companies in the industry follow, it always come up with new ideas for new products that the market hasn’t not seen. This could be Google’s worst nightmare. Google should be scared because Cisco is big and with a pretty good reputation.
Cisco hasn’t announced pricing or availability date but if the product is completed it will work with Cisco’s very own Umi consumer teleconferencing product. Unlike its rivals like Google, Boxee and other vendors, Videoscape won’t be sold directly to consumers. Instead the product will be sold to cable operators to distribute to their consumers.
For more see:
Netcrawl: Technology and the web.
Cisco is tech royalty. But it achieved success through innovation such as UCS, video communications and networking gear which have made the company an industry benchmark. With the recent launch of Videoscape, Cisco is proving once again that it’s a wildly successful company that enjoying a level of popularity that hasn’t been matched by any other firm in the industry. The company continues to show off the best looking product space without a single competitor coming close to matching it. The reason is just simple: Cisco I swilling to spend cash on the right technologies to make its product great and unique, witnessed its blockbuster acquisition of Tandberg for $3.4 billion, Cisco acquired Tandberg to grow its video communications business. I’m sure Videoscape will make a strong hit in the market. It’s a great product something that even Google couldn’t match. Cisco could do something that no other firm in the industry can do: it makes the consumers, enterprise customers and even the media expect the unexpected. It doesn’t simply follow a roadmap that so many other companies in the industry follow, it always come up with new ideas for new products that the market hasn’t not seen. This could be Google’s worst nightmare. Google should be scared because Cisco is big and with a pretty good reputation.
Cisco hasn’t announced pricing or availability date but if the product is completed it will work with Cisco’s very own Umi consumer teleconferencing product. Unlike its rivals like Google, Boxee and other vendors, Videoscape won’t be sold directly to consumers. Instead the product will be sold to cable operators to distribute to their consumers.
For more see:
Netcrawl: Technology and the web.
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