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
Are the Olympic Games a Win for Mobile Video Content? The Olympic Games in Beijing have really put TV back in the spotlight, in case people were starting to wonder if this medium is on its way down. The combination of live competition and mass marketing sent people running to any screen available - from the HDTV in the living room to the mobile phone in their pocket. The Olympic Games were a good benchmark, if you want to examine
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 8th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
[This post is based on a lecture given by Ariel David and I on the effects of IP networks on visual quality in video over IP applications] One of the biggest obstacles of the video conferencing industry has long been the user experience. Early video conferencing systems suffered from poor quality video and low fidelity audio, as well as great difficulties in establishing and maintaining connection for the conference duration. Most of these issues were solved with advances in processor
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 26th, 2008 | Filed under Video Applications
No one can deny the big buzz over telepresence. But hype or revolution, it seems that telepresence vendors are focused mainly on increasing the sales of their high-end systems rather than interconnecting them to allow for cross-vendor conferencing. According to Glowpoint’s CEO Michael Brandofino, leading telepresence vendors are putting it off saying “we’ll deal with it later”, but seriously endanger the reputation of the entire technology. Cisco and HP, two of the biggest telepresence vendors, have been working with partners
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 21st, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability, Telepresence
A few weeks ago Bezeq, Israel’s leading telecommunications provider, announced that its Board of Directors decided to move forward with the Next Generation Network (NGN) project. Bezeq is the dominant leader in the fixed line (wire-line) market in Israel and a strong player in the internet provider market (based on ADSL technology). Bezeq will invest, according to the press release, more than $400 million in upgrading its infrastructure in order to provide internet services at bitrates of up to 50Mbps.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 18th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
[This post is written by Ariel David, Video Technologies Expert in RADVISION's Networking Business Unit. Ariel has close to a decade of experience in video technologies and has embedded systems for video and image coding, video enhancement technologies and the management and development of integrated solutions. He can be reached at arield@radvision.com ] High definition (HD) is everywhere. If you haven’t read about it in one of the posts here, you probably saw it featured in a commercial. If you
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By guest | June 24th, 2008 | Filed under Video Conferencing
When I was a child, if I wanted to meet with a friend in the afternoon for some unplanned quality time, there were basically two options: the direct one, where you would call his home phone and hope he’s there (or at least that his mother knows where he is…), and the indirect one, where you just wander around the neighborhood and hopefully run into him. Oh, life was much simpler then.Two break-through concepts emerged since then, and totally changed
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 10th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
