Archive for 2008
The lines between communication services are getting blurrier every day thanks to the internet. Some of us do phone calls (or video calls) over Skype or through other VoIP providers and those of us who don’t still dial transatlantic calls might not know it but we actually go over IP some of the way in-between these continents. The same is happening for television, which eventually transitions to IP service. As we move to a world where service providers offer triple-play
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 8th, 2008 | Filed under Technology
At the 2004 Greek Olympic games, Israel won its first Olympic gold medal. Ever. It was awarded to Gal Friedman in the Mistral windsurfing competition. My CEO, Boaz Raviv, told me how during that year he watched the decisive race in that competition live on his mobile phone at one of the many coffee shops surrounding our office. That was 4 years ago, at a time when mobile video telephony, the service he used for this purpose, was only starting
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 4th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, IPTV
[Ask an Expert is a new service in RADVISION's Blogs. In this service, you ask questions, and we do our best to answer them here on one of our blogs. If you have any question to ask, feel free to contact one of the bloggers through our About pages] Last week a Product Manager from a large company who provides services to service providers approached me with the following: I am very interested in Mobile Video-telephony services. Specifically the protocol
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 2nd, 2008 | Filed under Ask an Expert
For those of you who have been following me for a while, you might already have noticed that I tend to switch between different target markets for the technologies I write about - they can be mobile handsets, enterprise solutions, developers of servers, etc. I have decided that September is a good time (as any) to give some (living) room for IPTV in this blog. To start with, I’d like to state my views on things here, and they
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 1st, 2008 | Filed under Technology
This week the carnival is at mobscure. And just in time for school, there’s an interesting post there about education as well. So head on to see what else made it to the carnival this time.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 1st, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
This is the first BlogDay I actively participate in as a blogger, though I have been exposed to the previous one. I found it interesting and useful to see what fellow bloggers tend to recommend. So here’s my list of 5 blogs for BlogDay: 1. No Jitter No Jitter is a blog related to the VoiceCon event. Now that VON is gone, they’re the water cooler of our industry. If there’s a good place for insights and good analysis regarding
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 31st, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
iPhone 3G is by far the most hyped phone (or even product) out there today. Everything about it is great - even though you can’t get coverage, have lousy battery life, buggy OS updates and general instability when you call, the party in the Apple AppStore is going on without a stop, with over 30 million dollars of sales in the first month alone. iPhone iPhone really changed the mobile handsets market. Other than making the concept of downloading applications
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 28th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Michael Mace at Mobile Opportunity complains about market share statistics - he is so right, and it’s not only the smartphone market, it is virtually any market and any product. You can read about this also in this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists. The removal of VoIP from Nokia’s handsets is pushing customers to iPhone and Android - not sure I agree on this one. Luca Filigheddu is on the spot here, as the N-series from Nokia is for the consumer market, most consumers don’t care if they call using VoIP, 3G, GSM or whatever. Speaking of Nokia, Joel Spolsky chose Nokia E71 over the iPhone 3G - the iPhone is not a one size fits all solution. Not VoIP related, but surely IP related - Cringely takes a jab at numbers, building predictions on the future from Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts statistics. Nice to see my country (Israel) doing well in his results. Another great one by the Cranky Product Manager - if you had to deal with engineers in the past (or if you are one), this one is definitely something you should read.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 27th, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
Another week; another carnival. This time, it’s over at MobHappy. There’s a bunch of great content there without a specific theme this week -iPhoneless at last. I made it to the carnival with my post about going green and VoIP.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 26th, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
The VoIP Survivor blog has been around for over 6 months now. During that time, I have tried to make it an interesting place for people who are working with and around VoIP - be it desktop clients, mobile handsets, or server side solutions. We have also tried to develop more interesting blogs around RADVISION’s fields of expertise. I’d like to take the opportunity and introduce my fellow RADVISION bloggers. Meet the writers The RADVISION blogging community currently consists of
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 25th, 2008 | Filed under Around the net
