Unified Communication (UC) is one of the hottest buzz words in the IT market, potentially in the whole tech market. Ask a few people what UC is, and you’ll be sure to get various answers. Still, most will agree, it involves uniting existing communication systems and tools (phone system, internet) with more advanced productivity and communication tools (such as instant messaging, video conferencing, and web collaboration) to deliver a complete solution. Bottom line - UC is aimed at creating adaptive
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 28th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
Tsahi from the blog next door wrote an interesting post on the 8 features he would like to see added to the TV set of the future. As I am not a big TV fan, but am a technophile and writing a blog mainly on Video Conferencing, I pondered about what killer features would I want in my (future) video conferencing solution (which I will henceforth call FVCS). Let me first tell you that I honestly believe that my future
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 21st, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
In a recent episode of House, the successful FOX TV show, Dr. House and his medical staff used video conferencing to aid a fellow doctor located at the South Pole to diagnose her symptoms after she falls gravely ill. Dr. House uses his laptop from home and an endpoint in the hospital to help Dr. Milton diagnose and treat herself, and eventually save her own life. Spoiler from FOX for the House episode “Frozen”. Video conferencing to the aid
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 25th, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
Shai Tsur wrote a post in BloGiza a few weeks ago wondering if too many communication options lead to worse communication. Shai writes this in respect to social media and the explosion of choices to interact with friends. I immediately thought of unified communications and enterprise communications. Too many options. (CC) In a recent No Jitter post, Irwin Lazar analyzed a recent survey of over 130 IT executives in which participants were
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 15th, 2008 | Filed under Unified Communication
When I was a child, if I wanted to meet with a friend in the afternoon for some unplanned quality time, there were basically two options: the direct one, where you would call his home phone and hope he’s there (or at least that his mother knows where he is…), and the indirect one, where you just wander around the neighborhood and hopefully run into him. Oh, life was much simpler then.Two break-through concepts emerged since then, and totally changed
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | June 10th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Unified Communication
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
A few weeks ago we had a Release Readiness Review (RRR) meeting to discuss the release of the latest version of one of our popular products.Now an RRR meeting is a standard procedure in most software companies, but what if your company is spread over 3 countries, located in 3 different continents with 3 different time zones, but you still need to have more than 20 people - product managers, development team leaders, QA - in one conference at the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 24th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
