A few weeks ago my very good friend Tsahi invited me to co-present with him in a TMCnet webinar called The hidden challenges of developing HD visual communication products“. Now Tsahi has done a few webinars already, but for me it was a first. And as I really like the topic, and have a lot to say, I gladly accepted the challenge. What we presented in the webinar was a high level review of what people like us, developing HD
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | August 24th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 1st, 2010 | Filed under Comic Strip, Video Conferencing
Yes, this is an(other) iPhone4 post. Yes, like everyone else I was following Steve Jobs’ keynote at WWDC. Yes, the iPhone4 seems to be a very interesting evolution for smartphones. Yes, Apple make the greatest marketing campaigns in the world. iPhone4 Commercial, directed by Sam Mendes But with all due respect to Steve Almighty, and the long-awaited iPhone4, I have to admit I was far from impressed with the “one more thing…” presented last week – video calling. Sure,
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 14th, 2010 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
InfoComm is the largest and most comprehensive pro-AV event in the world. And it seems like the InfoComm2010 that begins today in Las Vegas would be the biggest of them all, with more than 32,000 professionals and more than 900 exhibitors. As with every year, RADVISION will be exhibiting the latest in its product lines at InfoComm, and this year it is packed with great innovative offerings and exciting new technologies, most of which I tried to cover in my
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 9th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Video conferencing is an evolving technology. Although its roots were planted way back in the 60s, it has gone through its share of evolution to the point where – today – it is starting to become a real, everyday means of communication. As I pointed out 2 weeks ago, while video and audio have evolved considerably, collaboration has not. And it’s a shame because what people really want is the ability “to present content to the rest of the conference
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 4th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Two weeks ago Tsahi Levent-Levi wrote on NoJitter that the Cisco Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) is just the TIP of the iceberg – a nice initiative and a positive step forward, but not a real, complete solution. You can debate why Cisco suddenly decided to “play nice” and why now. But the fact remains – The Telepresence Strategy is flawed, as Andrew Davis from Wainhouse Research has been saying for a while (and he’s not alone). This week Eric Krapf,
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Interoperability, Telepresence, Video Conferencing
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
