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, Video Conferencing
Last month RADVISION hosted the SuperOp event here in Tel-Aviv, in the Carlton hotel next to the beautiful Tel-Aviv sea shore. Tsahi, who was part of the organizing team, told me that the Carlton Hotel was actively promoting a new service - personal video conferencing from the comfort of your room. Video conferencing promotion in the Carlton Tel-Aviv hotel. Photos: Tsahi Levent-Levi. If you have ever travelled on business (and even on pleasure), and especially if you happen
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 8th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
It seems that everyone is talking about Telepresence these days. In case you have been staying on a different planet for the past year or so, let me give you a brief introduction: Based on an idea by Jeffrey Katzenberg, the famous film producer and CEO of DreamWorks, HP introduced a telepresence solution called Halo two years ago. Halo was a point-to-point, interactive visual communication solution that takes traditional video conferencing one notch higher, especially in terms of size (picture
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 7th, 2008 | Filed under Telepresence, Video Conferencing
