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
[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 Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 24th, 2008 | Filed under Video Conferencing
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
If you have been following this blog for the past two months, you are probably well-aware of the benefits of using video conferencing, both for the organization and for the environment. With the introduction of high definition video on one hand and the virtual working place taking off (pdf), with around 100 million US workers expected to telework by 2010, the challenge of developing a solution that can suit this evolving and demanding market is not trivial. An ideal
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 22nd, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
