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CES 2017: Cisco’s new test lab promises to define the future of video


LAS VEGAS – Cisco says millennials now watch 70% of TV online, and consume twice as much mobile video as older demographics and its Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast indicates that by 2020, 82% of the Internet’s traffic will be video.However, while viewing is moving to IP, global broadcast pay-tv is still a $400 billion market despite subscriber losses says George Tupy, market manager with Cisco, still a major supplier of set top boxes.Tupy notes, for example, that ESPN has 100 million unique visitors per month to its web properties and is approaching $500 million in annual digital revenue, which...