Cisco expands Virtualized Video Processing platform

At CES, Cisco unveiled two new solutions for the Cisco Virtualized Video Processing (V2P) open platform, which helps pay-TV operators, content providers and media companies to manage software-based functions formerly handled by hardware.

Growth in online video and the increasing availability of higher-resolution content is requiring video operators to transport higher volumes of data and content through their networks, the company said. Cisco's Visual Networking Index forecasts* that by 2019, 80% of IP traffic will be video. Forty-two percent of IP traffic will be viewed across mobile devices, and 68% will be a mix of high-definition and 4K/ultra-high-definition video.

Cisco's Open Media Distribution is a flexible new cloud-ready content delivery network platform for delivering multiscreen video experiences to managed and unmanaged devices. Cisco's Cloud Object Storage is a software-based storage solution designed to support the storage needs for video services such as cloud digital video recording (DVR) and time-shift TV. 

"Cisco's V2P is the only platform today that virtualises these core video headend functions in the cloud," said Conrad Clemson, SVP and GM, Cisco Service Provider Video Software and Solutions. "V2P leverages open-source software to deliver valuable consumer video services faster, with the ability to flexibly accommodate third party solutions."

*Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast 2014-2019