More than a year ago I wrote a post on “affordable telepresence” and the failing economy. You see, as much as the economy is regarded as a driving force towards visual communications adoption, it is quite a struggle to believe that a $300K system is a viable solution in the current economical state (and in general). At around the same time as that post, I written about what telepresence is and what it is not. In a nutshell, ever since
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | February 2nd, 2010 | Filed under 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
In 1996 U.S. Congress authorized the distribution of an additional broadcast channel for each broadcast TV station, so that they could start broadcasting digital transmissions while simultaneously continuing with their analog transmission. Later, Congress set June 12, 2009 as the final date that TV stations can broadcast analog signals. You read correctly – as of June 13, 2009 all US TV stations will only broadcast digital. In fact, from February 17 stations are allowed to drop their analog transmission and
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 26th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
There are tons of collaboration tools out there. Lots of them support video. There isn’t a clear “best” or “better” solution, as it all depends on needs and communication characteristics. And yet, if I were an enterprise, big or small, looking for a collaboration tool, there are a few things I would look for, guidelines I would follow. I call them my 10 commandments for collaboration software: I. I am Standard-based While proprietary solutions can promise (and even deliver) cool
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 6th, 2009 | Filed under Collaboration
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
[This post is written by Amir Fish, RADVISION Product Manager for the interactive video applications product line] Sybase 365 Mobile Services Survey on Mobile Banking (Feb 2008) asked the top 100 banking institutions in the world what they see as the main reasons for customers not undertaking mobile banking (mBanking). Not surprising the most common reason was compatibility, meaning the interoperability with different handsets, and restrictions on the device and/or the network that the client must use in order to
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 7th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
Personally, I think Video Conferencing is something every enterprise, and every employee in the enterprise, can benefit from (not just the shoe-maker…). Nevertheless, it is quite obvious that different enterprises, and more specifically different employees in the enterprise, have different needs, and therefore have different needs for video communications. Due to these different needs, and also due to the different roles employees have in the enterprise, different employees use different video conferencing equipment: Top executives may use high-end, expensive video
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 3rd, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
One tends to not give any time to interoperability. Interoperability (or “interop” for short) is defined as the ability for two components to work and communicate together. We encounter interoperability all the time and everywhere, even if we never stop to think about it. You can call my mobile phone without worrying about the manufacturer of my handset (or yours) and the call will be connected. You can send me an e-mail and I will be able to read it
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 13th, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability, Video Conferencing
