Archive for 2008
I’ve been writing here a lot in praise of video conferencing, mainly from an enterprise perspective. The benefits such as travel costs reduction and inter-continental work meetings are easy to explain. However video conferencing can be used just as effectively on a personal level, for instance to bridge between geographically separated family members. A good example for such families, separated for a long time and by circumstances that do not allow them to physically unite, are those of US soldiers
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 1st, 2008 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[This post is written by Ariel David, Video Technologies Expert in RADVISION’s Networking Business Unit. Ariel has close to a decade of experience in video technologies and has embedded systems for video and image coding, video enhancement technologies and the management and development of integrated solutions. He can be reached at arield@radvision.com ] High definition (HD) is everywhere. If you haven’t read about it in one of the posts here, you probably saw it featured in a commercial. If you
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 24th, 2008 | Filed under Video Conferencing
So the cat is out of the bag. That is the Cat 2.0, out of the bag of Steve Jobs. Last Monday in San Francisco Apple’s CEO showed off the new version of the iPhone. While it offers a host of new games and web services, the new devices does NOT have a front facing video camera, nor does it support video conferencing (unless you take the “video conferencing kit” seriously…). And that’s despite the many rumors and protocol debates.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 17th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
When I was a child, if I wanted to meet with a friend in the afternoon for some unplanned quality time, there were basically two options: the direct one, where you would call his home phone and hope he’s there (or at least that his mother knows where he is…), and the indirect one, where you just wander around the neighborhood and hopefully run into him. Oh, life was much simpler then.Two break-through concepts emerged since then, and totally changed
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 10th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
Personally, I think Video Conferencing is something every enterprise, and every employee in the enterprise, can benefit from (not just the shoe-maker…). Nevertheless, it is quite obvious that different enterprises, and more specifically different employees in the enterprise, have different needs, and therefore have different needs for video communications. Due to these different needs, and also due to the different roles employees have in the enterprise, different employees use different video conferencing equipment: Top executives may use high-end, expensive video
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 3rd, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Video conferencing is reaching out to everyone, including the desktop. Still I am often confronted with the fact that video conferencing has been “the NEXT big thing” for more than a decade, and has yet to become a truly popular means of communication (like, for instance, the mobile phone). Researchers have found that there are a few problems - primarily psychological - that may explain the slow penetration of video conferencing into our lives, and also the reluctance of many
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 27th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
If you have been following this blog for the past two months, you are probably well-aware of the benefits of using video conferencing, both for the organization and for the environment. With the introduction of high definition video on one hand and the virtual working place taking off (pdf), with around 100 million US workers expected to telework by 2010, the challenge of developing a solution that can suit this evolving and demanding market is not trivial. An ideal
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 22nd, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
It’s amazing to me how while some areas of our lives have dramatically changed with technology, others have basically stayed the same. I was thinking about it when I recently took a short professional course in some technical college. The learning experience, which I experienced in class for 3 days, was not that different than what my late grandfather probably experienced in his days in the “heder” (Yiddish for a religious elementary school) in Poland some 80 years ago. It
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 19th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
One tends to not give any time to interoperability. Interoperability (or “interop” for short) is defined as the ability for two components to work and communicate together. We encounter interoperability all the time and everywhere, even if we never stop to think about it. You can call my mobile phone without worrying about the manufacturer of my handset (or yours) and the call will be connected. You can send me an e-mail and I will be able to read it
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 13th, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability, Video Conferencing
I’ve previously discussed how Telepresence is making Teleportation seem closer than ever. But there’s another cool invention, previously available only for Star Trek crew members, that is making its way to our desktop - The Holodeck. If you are not a Star Trek buff, here’s a brief explanation: “Holodeck,” short for Hologram Deck, is a virtual reality system, evolved sometime in the not-terribly-distant future (the 2360s), which transforms an empty room into a virtual world, including props, characters, background, etc.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 6th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Innovation
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