[A few weeks ago, Shahul hameed.M.S an analyst from Broadband Suppliers approached me, suggesting he write a piece about the Information Technology & Innoation Foundation (ITIF) report on the need for speed. I happily obliged. My take? It's not all video after all] Our personal computers are no more just desktop machines that are used for browsing the internet, playing movies and music and chatting. Real time communication, more virtual appearances and meetings, the need for better quality video-on-demand services
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By guest | February 25th, 2010 | Filed under Video Applications
“Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.” ~ Seth Godin. A while ago I wrote a post about the sisyphic nature of our work, where generations come and go but the market demand remains forever. My bottom line was that as there is never enough processing power, you should always be planning your next generation. “Next generation” in Hebrew is “Ha-Dor Ha-Ba”, and so when
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 2nd, 2009 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
[This week, at InfoComm, we officially launch the MCU SCOPIA Elite. I asked Yaniv Levi, SCOPIA Product Manager, to introduce the SCOPIA Elite here, in case you are not attending the show. If you ARE, Yaniv will be waiting for you in booth #3479.] It’s been more than 2 years since the launch of the SCOPIA MCU. During this time, the video conferencing market has evolved in a rather dramatic way: to one extreme, you have high end high definition
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By guest | June 18th, 2009 | Filed under 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
This blog is usually all about innovation, revolution and the future, but there’s one thing that stuck with me and hasn’t changed since the days I was a kid: Books. One may wonder if in this time and age books are still relevant, and I must admit that I am a sucker for them. It may seem like a wonder how this “old” medium survived, but a “soft” version of a book would never compare to the “hard” version of
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 30th, 2008 | Filed under Video Applications
