Heil The New xVC Heir: HVC

[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 (read more...)

By guest  |  January 19th, 2010  |  Filed under Innovation
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One Network, Not “One Internet”

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 (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  December 15th, 2009  |  Filed under Video Conferencing
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Motion Vs. Sharpness – Make Your Preference!

[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 (read more...)

By guest  |  December 1st, 2009  |  Filed under Video Conferencing
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No “One Internet”, No One Video Conferencing Experience

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 (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  October 27th, 2009  |  Filed under Video Conferencing
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Video Conferencing Mass Deployment? Survey Says…

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 (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  September 29th, 2009  |  Filed under Video Conferencing
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Five Books You MUST Read If You Want to REALLY Know Your Way Around Video

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 (read more...)

By Sagee Ben-Zedeff  |  September 30th, 2008  |  Filed under Video Applications
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