I have been recently out of the office for two weeks on reserve duty service. Going (back) to the army always brings with it mixed emotions, but one of the things I do look forward to is getting updated with the recent technological advances in army infrastructure, especially in VoIP. Just recently the Israeli Defense Ministry announced a Request For Proposals (RFP) for a massive tender to re-deploy a brand new telephony infrastructure, including 100,000 new end-stations, all based on
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 14th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
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
A few weeks ago we had a Release Readiness Review (RRR) meeting to discuss the release of the latest version of one of our popular products.Now an RRR meeting is a standard procedure in most software companies, but what if your company is spread over 3 countries, located in 3 different continents with 3 different time zones, but you still need to have more than 20 people - product managers, development team leaders, QA - in one conference at the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 24th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
