Cisco, Imagine Team on IP Video Transition

April 19, 2015
Imagine Communications is collaborating with Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO)[ to provide technologies for helping transition media companies to ...
Imagine Communications is collaborating with Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) to provide technologies for helping transition media companies to IP playout and hybrid IP facilities.

Imagine's Zenium workflow manager and VersioCloud platform have been certified to run on Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS). UCS is a data center platform intended to unite compute, network, storage access and virtualization into one system. The agreement also includes the ability to manage Cisco's Nexus IP switches with Imagine's Magellan Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Orchestrator.

VersioCloud is an IP-enabled, cloud-based video playout platform and is 100% software running on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) IT platforms. It's designed to move all of the traditional integrated channel playout functions to the cloud, including automation, branding, graphics, master control and file server capabilities. The VersioCloud platform is powered by Zenium, a software engine for designing, deploying and managing extensible, customizable software-defined workflows.

Magellan SDN Orchestrator is Imagine Communications' software control system for hybrid baseband and IP networks.