In a previous post I argued against the “One Internet”. I claimed that for video conferencing to work all access options to the network must be supported and the network itself has to be media-aware. That being said, one might get the impression that I believe that only a dedicated video conferencing network, one that connects (at least) the entire enterprise and offers a “clean” environment for our precious means of communication, can provide a worthy quality of experience. And
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 15th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
A few months ago I’ve written about the “deadly” effects IP networks have on video quality. The bottom line was that user experience today is highly dependent on network conditions, and so understanding your network is a must if you want to properly and successfully deploy visual communication means in your organization. But understanding the network and testing its “readiness” for video transport is not a trivial task. In fact, many organizations test their networks after deployment, which results in
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 16th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Tsahi continues with his disruptive posts, and his latest addresses IPTV. Tsahi argues that IPTV is no revolution at this point in time. It is much of the same. Mainly because there are no new features, and VOD and PVR functionality are quite limited. “These features are simply not enough for consumers to take the leap to IPTV”, he writes, and claims that “as we stream an all-IP network to our homes, and use it not only for the internet
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 4th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Applications
Not many people know that H.323, the umbrella under which the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) defined the protocols for the transmission of unified communication over packet networks (back when it was simply called “audio-visual communication”), was conceived in the good old ISDN days. Nowadays, H.323 is mainly used for video conferencing over IP networks, which introduces new challenges that were not present before.. One major challenge is sending media that requires high bandwidth (especially since the mighty HD became
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | April 29th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
