Cisco purchased Arroyo Video Solutions for $92 million in an effort to expand its infrastructure offerings for the next stage of consumer-grade video-on-demand.
“The platforms out there today will not scale to the degree that we envision,” said Paul Bosco, vice president of video and cable initiatives at Cisco. “The nature of on-demand programming is changing. Cable operators used to be able to offer 100 choices that would get updated every couple of months, but consumers are soon going to expect millions of titles anytime they want them.”
Cisco also acquired Scientific-Atlanta and is working on both software and hardware for solving the bandwidth and compression speed issues facing current VoD systems.
Cisco Working on Video-on-Demand [CrunchGear]
Cisco is just about to be able to claim: “We Will Control All You See and Hear”
These guys afetr buying SFA and with Linksys are now able to offer solutions that cover just about every aspect of what happens to the digital bits from the point they leave the wires from the servers all the way up to the last point beforethe bits go into your PC (or other web device). This buyout may only make this happen sooner as far as “other” Internet devices goes now.
There is a full post here on the link
http://247walls...ontrol-all.html