Tsahi’s recent post on what telepresence is got me thinking about the way enterprises currently use video conferencing and how I see video conferencing in the future enterprise. It is no secret that video conferencing today is mainly limited to conference rooms. If your company is global, or at least has a few branches that are located far one from the other, you probably have some video conferencing endpoints in your conference rooms. If you have a big meeting, with
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 16th, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
More than a Year ago I was reading a post by John Bartlett of NoJitter about the network requirements of mass video conferencing deployments, and I felt obliged to pacify John, and all of you, that with the help of “John the Plumber” we will all be safe by the time video conferencing hell breaks loose. In that “John the Plumber” post I’ve written last November, I was referring to the bandwidth challenge, but bandwidth is not – surprise, surprise
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | March 9th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[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
Just a few weeks ago, in my 2010 Predictions post, I’ve written that the Instant Messaging (IM) world – Skype, Messenger/Communicator, Google Talk, etc. – and the Video Conferencing (VC) world – the meeting room systems, executive systems, desktop clients – are about to be merged into one experience – Visual Communications. You can see many indications to this trend, coming from all over the place, with IM vendors moving strongly into video and video conferencing vendors integrating IM capabilities.
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | February 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
[Ever since we started discussing desktop video conferencing as a valid option for providing the entire work force with video conferencing capabilities, including telecommuters and employees that are out of the office, I've been getting a lot of questions regarding this new and ground-breaking concept. There's lots of confusion around this, and people are pretty much preaching what they're selling: complicated SVC codecs, fancy HD cameras, state-of-the-art next generation CPUs. Just recently Scott Wharton, CEO of Vidtel Inc., suggested we
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By guest | February 9th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
More than a year ago I wrote a post on “affordable telepresence” and the failing economy. You see, as much as the economy is regarded as a driving force towards visual communications adoption, it is quite a struggle to believe that a $300K system is a viable solution in the current economical state (and in general). At around the same time as that post, I written about what telepresence is and what it is not. In a nutshell, ever since
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | February 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
“There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards or crystal balls. Collectively these methods are known as “nutty”. Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as “a complete waste of time” - Scott Adams As 2010 begins, it’s predictions time again, when everyone who’s writing anywhere must give their predictions for the up-coming year. I will not disclose here my methods for predicting
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 26th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[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
A few weeks ago we held our annual conference in Tel-Aviv. This year the headline was – surprise, surprise! – Unified Communications. During the day my division, the Networking Business Unit (NBU), focused on exposing the local crowd, executives and IT managers from leading enterprises and organizations, to the latest trends in IP communication and collaboration. Other than some very interesting presentations given by my colleagues and myself about unified communications, desktop collaboration, video conferencing and video technologies, there were
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | January 12th, 2010 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
2009 has been quite an interesting year – to the world in general, to the tech community, to the video conferencing market and to this blog specifically. I thought that celebrating a new year is a great excuse to visit the posts I liked best in 2009, so here’s a recap: January If iPhone wants to be the future, I argued in January, it sure is lagging behind. And I was referring to the lack of a front facing camera
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | December 29th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
