Earlier this month networking giant Cisco pulled the plug on umi, the company’s somewhat overpriced line of video teleconferencing set-tops.  It was designed for the use of both consumer and business users, which may have contributed to its downfall, and Cisco is not repeating the same mistake again.

As a part of a much broader plan to focus almost entirely on enterprise, the company launched several new offerings that supplement Videoscape, Cisco’s video streaming platform for service providers. On the client side, two new products were introduced: the Cisco 9800 Series multigateway video router, which manages almost all of the video in a given household; and the Videoscape Voyager Vantage cloud connector. On the backend, Videoscape Voyager Virtual is used by the service provider to stream apps and other remotely hosted elements to legacy boxes.

Cisco also unveiled the Cisco Conductor content streaming admin platform, and its Media Processor and Transcode Manager – software that optimizes resource utilization when streaming to more than one monitor. Naturally, the CES product roll-out included an analytics solution as well that further enhances the optimization part.

“Videoscape Content Delivery Network (CDN) Analytics deliver advance reporting so that service providers can gather and view more in-depth information from their Cisco Content Delivery System (CDS) or third-party CDN deployment, and analyze network performance in real-time.”

While Cisco has trimmed a lot of fat around its smaller businesses, John Chambers’ strategy is still laid out across a substantial number of different markets. Social responsibility fits into the grand plan.

The latest expansion beyond the Cisco Networking Academy is the ‘Out of the Blocks’ Series, an initiative through which it will contribute free books and other resources to more than 4000 secondary schools in the United Kingdom.