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
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
As part of my sisyphic effort to stay updated with the latest in the video conferencing market, I’m using various tools to aggregate everything and anything that concerns this technology, this industry. The most talked-about topic in the many blogs, PRs and presentations I have been reading ever since I joined this industry is, without a doubt, the benefits of video conferencing. Our industry is preaching video conferencing as a communication means for more than a decade, in an attempt
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 12th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
In his “Talking Video” blog, Tsahi debated whether the future mobile phone should be connected to WiFi, Cellular network or both. Tsahi argues that as “most of us are actually spending most of our time in areas with WiFi connectivity – workplace, home, coffee shops, restaurants, malls”, the future mobile phone must be connected to WiFi as well. And as Free WiFi everywhere is still but a dream, cellular connectivity is a must. So you basically remain with the easiest
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 13th, 2009 | Filed under Collaboration
