As a result of my “Clash of the VC Titans” mini-series I have receive some questions on what telepresence REALLY is. To some, it’s Telepresence, a product made famous by Cisco, comprising of multi-camera, multi-codec, multi-screen, fancy-shmancy meeting rooms allowing people to communicate in high definition over dedicated networks. To others, its telepresence, a term used to describe a user experience where people can collaborate in a high fidelity, highly interactive session, with audio and video technologies that allow a
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 18th, 2008 | Filed under Telepresence, Video Conferencing
I have already discussed in length the Multipoint Control Unit, in Video Conferencing jargon, the Babel Fish of the video conferencing network. As video conferencing becomes a popular means of communication for the 21st century enterprise, a growing number of MCUs (or conferencing servers) are being deployed in various locations in the enterprise network to allow quick and efficient connection between the endpoint in the meeting room or in use of an employee and a conferencing server. How MCU-based
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 13th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
I have been talking and writing a lot about Video Conferencing since I started working for RADVISION. I have to admit, in the past I wasn’t sure what form would the personal video conferencing endpoint have, but lately the answer is literally right in front of you: Desktop Video Conferencing. If you haven’t heard, Desktop Video Conferencing is happening, and although there is always room for more innovation, the recent release of Scopia Desktop, RADVISION’s desktop video client, is promising
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 6th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
Unified Communication (UC) is one of the hottest buzz words in the IT market, potentially in the whole tech market. Ask a few people what UC is, and you’ll be sure to get various answers. Still, most will agree, it involves uniting existing communication systems and tools (phone system, internet) with more advanced productivity and communication tools (such as instant messaging, video conferencing, and web collaboration) to deliver a complete solution. Bottom line - UC is aimed at creating adaptive
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 28th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Tsahi from the blog next door wrote an interesting post on the 8 features he would like to see added to the TV set of the future. As I am not a big TV fan, but am a technophile and writing a blog mainly on Video Conferencing, I pondered about what killer features would I want in my (future) video conferencing solution (which I will henceforth call FVCS). Let me first tell you that I honestly believe that my future
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 21st, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
In the last two years, two great forces have arisen in the Video Conferencing market, gaining fame and a 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 the question which is the best solution. In the last two posts I tried to put in my two
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 10th, 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 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
In a recent episode of House, the successful FOX TV show, Dr. House and his medical staff used video conferencing to aid a fellow doctor located at the South Pole to diagnose her symptoms after she falls gravely ill. Dr. House uses his laptop from home and an endpoint in the hospital to help Dr. Milton diagnose and treat herself, and eventually save her own life. Spoiler from FOX for the House episode “Frozen”. Video conferencing to the aid
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 25th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
George Colony, the CEO of Forrester Research (and NOT the actor…), recently wrote a post on his blog about the Pros and Cons of using Telepresence for long-distance business meetings instead of traveling. Colony’s team, located in Massachusetts, met with John Chamber’s team, located in California, all using Cisco Telepresence rooms. Colony says “the experience is a close emulation of an in-person meeting. If in-person is 100% and traditional video conferencing is 40%, the attendees put TelePresence at 80%”.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 11th, 2008 | Filed under Video Conferencing
