Last week I tried to share with you my disappointment with FaceTime, the video calling service Apple has just announced. You have to admit – If there’s one thing Apple does brilliantly is marketing. And so, Steve Jobs chose to tackle, hands-on, the one main obstacle that he has to know (because he’s such a great professional) can jeopardize the whole FaceTime dream – interoperability. What did Steve do? First of all, he dazzled us with a BIG, fat “OPEN”
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Interoperability, Video Conferencing
Two weeks ago Tsahi Levent-Levi wrote on NoJitter that the Cisco Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) is just the TIP of the iceberg – a nice initiative and a positive step forward, but not a real, complete solution. You can debate why Cisco suddenly decided to “play nice” and why now. But the fact remains – The Telepresence Strategy is flawed, as Andrew Davis from Wainhouse Research has been saying for a while (and he’s not alone). This week Eric Krapf,
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Interoperability, Telepresence, 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
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
I’ve been writing about or simply mentioning High Definition in almost every post here, so excuse me for not telling (again) the HD story or explaining (again) why it’s worth your every cent. I have already discussed the definition of “high”, and reached the following lower limits: Display resolution of 720p 25 frames per second Bitrate of 1 Mbps The evolutionary steps of video conferencing that introduced us to HD were quite dramatic: in two
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 24th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
[Two weeks ago I posted the pre-show post, inviting you all, physically and/or virtually, to join RADVISION in InfoComm09. Well, the show is over, and the many significant announcements we made made a huge impact. And so I wanted to share with you some great videos that Teddy Flatau, AVP Products in the Networking Business Unit (NBU), took in our booth , using his Flip HD camera (remember?), accompanied by great commentary written by Bob Romano, VP Marketing NBU.] At
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By guest | June 25th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
“The solution of every problem is another problem” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe About a year ago, Tsahi debated in his blog whether we need a Swiss army knife or a penknife as a communication protocol. What he was asking was whether we need different products for different tasks (penknives) or one solution to fit them all (Swiss army knife). I returned to Tsahi’s post the other day, when I was thinking about the RADVISION solution. And I
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 16th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
June has already begun, and in case you didn’t guess it from the first post of the month (where Vince Chavy told the tale about the evolution of SCOPIA Desktop), it is going to be “InfoComm month” in this blog. With 30,000 professionals from more than 80 countries, InfoComm is the premier event for the audio-visual, information communications and system integration industries. InfoComm showcases the latest technologies in audio, video, display, conferencing, networking and more, and this year RADVISION has
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 8th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
I guess you can’t really write a blog about technology without some references to popular science fiction, and as no science fiction title is more popular than Star Trek, I’ve previously discussed here the “enterprise edition” of teleportation and the holodeck. But from the vast repertoire of technologies that science fiction (and Star Trek) offered us along the years, none has been as seductive – to me, at least – as the universal translator. This fictional device, first described in
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 9th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
Last week there were two announcements coming out of Cisco, that seriously shook the grounds of the world IT market. While Cisco’s Unified Computing system got a mixed reaction, ranging from “a significant shift” (from Cisco and its technology partners) to “nothing new” (from competitors), its decision to acquire Pure Digital Technologies for $590M, maker of a popular digital camera technology – The Flip, has left most simply wondering. As Andy Greenberg from Forbes wrote, Cisco’s love of video is
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 26th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
