A Year ago I wrote a post on The Evolution of Video Conferencing, from the AT&T Labs’ Picturephone built in 1956 to the latest and greatest endpoints that we have today at our disposal. If you’re reading my blog, you must be well aware of all the great technologies introduced to the video conferencing market in the last few years – high definition video, high definition audio, multiple displays, life-size images, multi-directional microphones, even 3D. But if you are a
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 20th, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration, Innovation, Video Conferencing
What Greater Social Responsibility Is There Than Climate Change? Last year I participated in Blog Action Day and promised myself to make it a tradition. After
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 15th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[I'm discussing video conferencing here on a regular basis, but it seems as I have neglected a very important building block of the solution: data collaboration. In order to make amends I asked Sasha Ruditsky, TBU's CTO and a video conferencing veteran, to write an introduction for video collaboration in video conferencing.] From the dawn of the age of business conferencing three types of interactions between people are associated with it: People want to be able to hear each
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By guest | September 15th, 2009 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
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
Not many people know that H.323, the umbrella under which the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) defined the protocols for the transmission of unified communication over packet networks (back when it was simply called “audio-visual communication”), was conceived in the good old ISDN days. Nowadays, H.323 is mainly used for video conferencing over IP networks, which introduces new challenges that were not present before.. One major challenge is sending media that requires high bandwidth (especially since the mighty HD became
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 29th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
