Cisco Systems are conducting the Cisco Expo Saudi Arabia, on the 5th and 6th of December 2011 at the King Fahad Cultural Centre, Riyadh Saudi Arabia. This year Cisco came out with a theme “Innovate Together”. Well I am sure this event provides a great opportunity to connect, collaborate and communicate with leading IT professionals in the region. Cisco Expo is a platform where we get an opportunity to discuss a variety of topics ranging from global megatrends, their societal and economic impact, to innovation and relevance to the technology architectures.

Cisco System and their partner have planned few presentations and demonstration will focus around the power of collaboration, video, cloud and virtualization, borderless network and emerging technologies that are transforming business to networked enterprises driving business results, productivity, competitiveness and societal change.

So want to be at Cisco Expo Saudi Arabia, register now.

“Cisco is committed to working with our service provider customers to deliver next-generation IP-based video experiences across devices,” said Marthin De Beer, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Emerging Business Group. “Service providers globally are embracing our Videoscape vision, and today with the acquisition of BNI Video, we are augmenting our Videoscape platform and giving customers a clear migration path to Videoscape.”

“As a founding investor in BNI Video, Comcast Ventures recognized the potential for this technology to play a critical role in advancing video experiences for Comcast’s customers,” said Tony Werner, chief technology officer, Comcast. “With the combined expertise in IP video systems, Cisco and BNI Video offer service providers a compelling software and infrastructure platform to efficiently deliver video content to multiple devices.”

“Time Warner Cable invested early in BNI Video, as it brought a unique software platform to market that addresses the back-office complexities of delivering TV Everywhere services,” said Mike LaJoie, chief technology officer, Time Warner Cable. “Combining forces with Cisco presents an opportunity to take video service providers to the next level with Internet video, helping to manage networks more efficiently to deliver advanced TV entertainment experiences to consumers.”

Upon the close of the acquisition, BNI Video employees will be integrated into Cisco’s Service Provider Video Technology Group. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $99 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of BNI Video. The acquisition is subject to various standard closing conditions and is expected to be complete in the second quarter of Cisco’s fiscal year 2012.

To brief the updated exam will cover configuration and optimization of IP core technologies, aggregation and edge technologies, and remote access technologies-all of which are key to service provider infrastructures. The exams will also cover managing services for voice, video, and security traversing the core IP network.

For further info check Cisco Learning Network.