In the last two years two great forces have risen in the Video Conferencing market, gaining fame and a rather considerable amount of fortune, and pushing video conferencing into the hugging hands of the enterprise masses. These are the VC Titans - High Definition Video Conferencing (HDVC) and Telepresence (TP) - so similar in many ways, so different in other. Many have pondered who is better, which is the best solution. Finally the time has come to reach a conclusion.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 8th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
In the last two years two great forces have risen in the Video Conferencing market, gaining fame and a rather considerable amount of fortune, and pushing video conferencing into the hugging hands of the enterprise masses. These are the VC Titans - High Definition Video Conferencing (HDVC) and Telepresence (TP) - so similar in many ways, so different in other. Many have pondered who is better, which is the best solution. Finally the time has come to reach a conclusion.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 6th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
[This post is based on a lecture given by Ariel David and I on the effects of IP networks on visual quality in video over IP applications] One of the biggest obstacles of the video conferencing industry has long been the user experience. Early video conferencing systems suffered from poor quality video and low fidelity audio, as well as great difficulties in establishing and maintaining connection for the conference duration. Most of these issues were solved with advances in processor
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 26th, 2008 | Filed under Video Applications
A few weeks ago Bezeq, Israel’s leading telecommunications provider, announced that its Board of Directors decided to move forward with the Next Generation Network (NGN) project. Bezeq is the dominant leader in the fixed line (wire-line) market in Israel and a strong player in the internet provider market (based on ADSL technology). Bezeq will invest, according to the press release, more than $400 million in upgrading its infrastructure in order to provide internet services at bitrates of up to 50Mbps.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 18th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
Tsahi argued that UC, Social Media, Web 2.0 or Phone 2.0 doesn’t really exist. His argument - in the last decade only three things have changed: there’s more bandwidth, more processing power and more acceptance of IP based technologies. Although I tend to agree there is no real revolution here, just evolution, I think the basic assumption - more bandwidth, more processing power, more acceptance - is wrong, or at least should be taken in the right context. Actually, if
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 11th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, 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
