2009 has been quite an interesting year – to the world in general, to the tech community, to the video conferencing market and to this blog specifically. I thought that celebrating a new year is a great excuse to visit the posts I liked best in 2009, so here’s a recap: January If iPhone wants to be the future, I argued in January, it sure is lagging behind. And I was referring to the lack of a front facing camera
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 29th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
I’ve been writing about or simply mentioning High Definition in almost every post here, so excuse me for not telling (again) the HD story or explaining (again) why it’s worth your every cent. I have already discussed the definition of “high”, and reached the following lower limits: Display resolution of 720p 25 frames per second Bitrate of 1 Mbps The evolutionary steps of video conferencing that introduced us to HD were quite dramatic: in two
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 24th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
A few weeks ago I attended the World Innovation Summit, a very interesting conference on innovation and technology, held right here in Tel-Aviv. Multi-national companies, emerging companies and promising start-ups presented their pieces of innovation in various fields, such as mobile communication, cloud computing, visual computing and more. I have to admit that as interesting as the whole day was, the highlight for me was the closing keynote, given by video conference from Boston by Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil, in case
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 10th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
I was reading an article in WebUrbanist about the evolution of 10 essential gadgets & technologies the other day and thought about how video conferencing is following the trend of being “smaller, cheaper and more capable”. You can argue that endpoints have only gotten bigger (Telepresence…) and more expensive (Telepresence!!!), but if you consider how their capabilities have increased, you could say that they have shrunk considerably in comparison to their old counterparts. Not convinced? Interested?! Well, a photo is
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | February 10th, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
“Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever…” (Ecclesiastes 1) In almost every other post in this blog, and maybe in any tech blog, in salesmen’s pitches, the news, magazines and commercials – it’s High Definition this, High Definition that. And ever since LifeSize announced the first ever High Definition endpoint in December 2005, the video conferencing market has gone HD-loony with “high definition” becoming a must-phrase in every discussion. Q: So what, really, is High Definition
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 16th, 2009 | Filed under High Definition, Video Conferencing
In the last two years, two great forces have arisen in the Video Conferencing market, gaining fame and a 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 the question which is the best solution. In the last two posts I tried to put in my two
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 10th, 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 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
[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
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
