[I've been asked often, during the past two years, what's next on the video coding front. Some people are asking about H.265, the natural heir of the current king H.264; others are just wondering where we're going. To be honest, even for a video coding guy keeping up with the latest trends and turns in the video coding world is a complicated task. But the "next generation" of video coding is a very interesting topic, not to mention very relevant
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By guest | January 19th, 2010 | Filed under Innovation
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
[I've been asked in many occasions, both by colleagues and clients, regarding the Motion/Sharpness preference in many of today's video conferencing endpoints. To clarify this topic, I asked Amnon Cohen-Tidhar, a video architect in the Networking Business Unit (NBU), to write this guest post as part of our ongoing "Ask The EXPERT" series] Although not a “to be or not to be” question, many video communication experts debate about the issue of motion vs. sharpness. More specifically, the debate
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By guest | December 1st, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Tsahi recently wrote a guest post over at NoJitter (RESPECT!) talking about Net Neutrality and the “One Internet”. Tsahi was talking about the Internet and Internet services in general, and I want to talk about Video Conferencing. Here’s what Tsahi wrote: There are two areas where net neutrality falls apart and causes real problems for users: Access to the Internet. Services over the Internet. It doesn’t take an expert to see that these are the same problems
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 27th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
For the last 5 years, Wainhouse Research has been conducting an on-line end-user survey focusing on enterprise video conferencing. Subscribers of the Wainhouse Research Bulletin (which I strongly recommend) are invited to answer a survey, which covers various interesting questions involving video conferencing and the enterprise. As I was among those who filled the survey, I recently received this year’s results, and I have to say that I haven’t got to reading them thoroughly until most recently. By chance, I
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 29th, 2009 | Filed under 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
