Posts filed under 'Video Conferencing'
More than a Year ago I was reading a post by John Bartlett of NoJitter about the network requirements of mass video conferencing deployments, and I felt obliged to pacify John, and all of you, that with the help of “John the Plumber” we will all be safe by the time video conferencing hell breaks loose. In that “John the Plumber” post I’ve written last November, I was referring to the bandwidth challenge, but bandwidth is not – surprise, surprise
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 9th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Inter-personal communication is a very interesting subject. “Remote” inter-personal communication, which means communicating with one another using various means of communication, without actually being in physical proximity, is even more interesting to me. And the last decade has been extremely exciting in that manner. A few weeks ago a tweet sent by David Ohayon got me thinking. David wrote (in Hebrew, sorry!): “Once people thought video calling would be the future. The future proved that people would give up even
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Just a few weeks ago, in my 2010 Predictions post, I’ve written that the Instant Messaging (IM) world – Skype, Messenger/Communicator, Google Talk, etc. – and the Video Conferencing (VC) world – the meeting room systems, executive systems, desktop clients – are about to be merged into one experience – Visual Communications. You can see many indications to this trend, coming from all over the place, with IM vendors moving strongly into video and video conferencing vendors integrating IM capabilities.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
RADVISION has a long tradition of innovation and technology leadership. Whether it’s a ground-breaking technology such as our SVC solution or a futuristic research project such as 3D video conferencing, RADVISION is pushing to extend and expand the user experience in the market it invented over a decade ago. Innovation in the video conferencing market usually involves, like in every aspect of communication, both sides. Whether the calling scenario is point-to-point or endpoint-to-bridge, rolling out advances in technology and great
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | February 16th, 2010 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
[Ever since we started discussing desktop video conferencing as a valid option for providing the entire work force with video conferencing capabilities, including telecommuters and employees that are out of the office, I've been getting a lot of questions regarding this new and ground-breaking concept. There's lots of confusion around this, and people are pretty much preaching what they're selling: complicated SVC codecs, fancy HD cameras, state-of-the-art next generation CPUs. Just recently Scott Wharton, CEO of Vidtel Inc., suggested we
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By guest | February 9th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
More than a year ago I wrote a post on “affordable telepresence” and the failing economy. You see, as much as the economy is regarded as a driving force towards visual communications adoption, it is quite a struggle to believe that a $300K system is a viable solution in the current economical state (and in general). At around the same time as that post, I written about what telepresence is and what it is not. In a nutshell, ever since
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | February 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
“There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards or crystal balls. Collectively these methods are known as “nutty”. Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as “a complete waste of time” - Scott Adams As 2010 begins, it’s predictions time again, when everyone who’s writing anywhere must give their predictions for the up-coming year. I will not disclose here my methods for predicting
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 26th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
A few weeks ago we held our annual conference in Tel-Aviv. This year the headline was – surprise, surprise! – Unified Communications. During the day my division, the Networking Business Unit (NBU), focused on exposing the local crowd, executives and IT managers from leading enterprises and organizations, to the latest trends in IP communication and collaboration. Other than some very interesting presentations given by my colleagues and myself about unified communications, desktop collaboration, video conferencing and video technologies, there were
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 12th, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Coming Soon: Free Video Conferencing From Google. This was the headline of a recent ZDNet story by Garrett Rogers. Garett based his prediction on an interview with Rishi Chandra, a Google Apps product manager, on SFGate. There, Mr. Chandra said that “launching a voice or video chat session should flow seamlessly within Gmail and mesh organically with the other Apps” and “should be embedded in the core experience across the application set”. Google’s voice and video communication capabilities are limited
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
In a previous post I argued against the “One Internet”. I claimed that for video conferencing to work all access options to the network must be supported and the network itself has to be media-aware. That being said, one might get the impression that I believe that only a dedicated video conferencing network, one that connects (at least) the entire enterprise and offers a “clean” environment for our precious means of communication, can provide a worthy quality of experience. And
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 15th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
