My 4 year old daughter gently reminds me every day how much innovation and technology has changed our lives on a daily basis. Our everyday increasing usage and reliance of video based communications, entertainment, and education has transformed the way we live, work, play, and learn. Expectations of a New Generation Lately, she has been frustrated why her touch commands on our living room television will not respond to her. "Daddy, its not playing my Dora cartoon" is her primary complaint. She knows what she wants to view, she believes she can touch and command the content instantly, she wishes to select which intelligent screen to use, be able to share her viewing experience with her friends and family, and she also has little patience for advertisement which does not apply to her toddler age group. These are the expectations of a new generation whom is still learning the alphabet at school in comparison. (Image Source: Hillwood Herald) As I compare my own childhood overseas in the early 1980's, my father brought home a JVC television, which had PAL system and 3 circles of RGB colors imprinted on the sticker. This 11-channel, color, hand controlled television lasted us approximately 10+ years, later becoming attached to my Atari console. Living overseas, we were quite anxious to watch American programming, so my father bought a range booster for our outdoor-mounted antenna array, which helped us catch neighboring country broadcasts, and armed forces networks. Alas, a whole day spent running cable to the roof, mounting the antenna, and now I could finally watch my favorite shows - Charles in Charge, Silver Spoons, and 21 Jump Street! (Image Source: Hikano.blogspot) CloudVerse enables Videoscape Cisco has once again proven its leadership in cloud and video segments by innovating and delivering concepts to reality, and now fully, independently tested by respected industry authority - EANTC. CloudVerse enables true advances in video content management, optimization, delivery, and consumption. The main features of the solution are as follows: Comprehensive Video Transcoding Multi-Format Content Delivery Cisco Mediasuite Adaptive Bitrate Video Scalability Live Streaming Redundancy Transcoder Redundancy Mobile Video Transforming Life's Experiences Even though my daughter is 4 years old, I see her going through the circle of life. As an infant, she started observing pictures and objects on a Plasma TV which displayed Teletubbies on cable network. Today, she is learning more advanced toddler aged experiences through custom content on YouTube, Nick Jr online, and Sprout network through a number of devices, displays, and networks. Now she is being introduced to online learning videos to prep for Kindergarten. As she matures, I can see that her tastes will change and her expectations on technology and personalization will become ever so specific. Vision to the Future Video technology and simplicity of its integration is changing our lives, faster than any other segment. As I observe my daughter grow up, I forsee her own children bringing a new wave or revolution to this segment, whereby video is used to help stimlate, develop, and train the human brain from infancy to adutlhood and becomes another tool we use to perfect our human skills and abilities. The ability to use video on pico-projectors, light crystal glass based displays, and video based search technology is just being realized in our age, and expect to be used on a daily basis for the next age groups. (Image Source: BayCitizen.org) Sincerely, Zeeshan N. Social Media Blogger Subject Matter Expert Service Provider Industry ... View more

Since the GSM Association first held this annual conference in 1987, it has now grown to be the largest venue within the Mobile Industry, now breaking record attendance in 2012: over 60,000 participants over 12,000 App Developers over 4,000 CEO's over 3,000 members of the Press approx 1500 Exhibitors Some refer to this as the Oscar's of the Mobile Industry, yet hundreds of times larger, this annual mega-event will now be held at Fira de Barcelona until 2018. This year's theme is "Redefining Mobile". Which I think is quite deserved. MWC has always been a premiere event for mobile operators, network infrastructure vendors, handset and device manufacturers, application developers, and services companies. 2012 marks an important turn in the evolution of mobile technology and proliferation of wireless within other industries. There will be special focus on health monitoring devices, embedded payment terminals, as well as integration within cars, home monitors / controls, appliances, utility meters, and transport / fleet management systems. (Image source: cec900) Today, mobile is not just about Mobile Handsets or Tablets, the industry has truly redefined the Mobile Experience. My 4 year old girl is a great comparison of how much the industry as a whole has come forward. She does not know how to use a mouse (thanks to abundance of touch screen devices), and likely never will learn what MS-DOS or ASCII level programming is. She now gets frustrated at the living room TV, when she tries to touch the display with her hands, expecting the program to display her Sprout network favorites, and nothing happens. In her 4 year old mind, everthing is touch enabled, and on demand when she wants it. (Image Source: Kiwi Commons) We have a long way to go as an industry to enable the next generation of users and experiences, but I somehow think we are now enabling a new way of connected life, one device, one touch, one app, one child at a time....... Get ready for MWC 2012 coming up February 27-March 1 in Barcelona. For more information on Cisco at Mobile World Congress 2012, click here. Sincerely, Zeeshan N. Social Media Blogger Subject Matter Expert Service Provider Industry More MWC 2012 Resources Mobile World Congress 2012 Videos From CES to MWC Blog Post Cisco Mobile World Congress 2012 Facebook Tab Reference / Sources: - GSMA, 2012. - Cloud Times, 2012. - Telecoms, 2012. - Wikipedia, 2012. - Kiwi Commons, 2011. - cec900, 2012. ... View more

SWVMS16 (current version) WVC 210 v1.1.1 and WVC v1.1.0.15 Windows XP SP3 I performed install of VMS on Centrino based PC, and configured the cameras. everything seems to work, but I do not see video. Went back through browser interface and made sure video was there, and camera was configured properly. Any suggestions? Sincerely, Zeeshan ... View more

Hi there, Installed a new version of SWVMS 1.2.1 and went through the initial prompts to enter new password. Loaded the tool, setup the cameras - then prompted me to change to Admin settings, in order to connect to cameras. I noticed this error did not appear in 1.2.0. Anyways, played around quite a lot with the settings, within XP (confirmed I AM administrator) - but some reason its not recognizing the credentials. Also, tried to uninstall and reinstall app - but some registry files seem to stay there - and recognize old password and settings. Does anyone know where these are? Any help is appreciated. Zeeshan ... View more

I would like to generate some discussion about some recent Service Provider interest in the use of WiFi as a complementary technology, to support 3G / 3.5G data offload (capacity), or innovative use cases. We recently saw several articles on AT&T enabling iPhone Data Plan users to access AT&T's 20k Hotspots, using one-time simplified access mechanism. This was a method to help improve capacity on the 3G network. Are there other models where SP's view WiFi as a complementary or supportive technology? Are these specific use cases? Look forward to everyone's thoughts. Sincerely, Zeeshan ... View more