Comcast Unit Shares Cisco’s Video Spotlight

Remember when Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) insisted that it would play nice with others when it comes to Videoscape, and that its new cloud-based platform wouldn’t give it license to get its Borg on and take over a service provider’s entire TV ecosystem? (See CES 2011: Cisco Wants Videoscape to Play Nice.)

That position is being taken to task in Cisco’s first-ever Videoscape deployment. Telstra Corp. Ltd. (ASX: TLS; NZK: TLS) of Australia has tapped thePlatform Inc. , Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK)‘s media publishing unit, to provide the video-management layer for the operator’s newly expanded TV Everywhere (TVE) initiative.

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