Posts filed under 'Miscellaneous'
We started rolling out VC240s in RADVISION, and just a few days after I took the picture of the monitor with the oh-too-many-cameras, it’s time for an updated picture of what my colleague now has on his desk: Yes, this is not an optical illusion: he now has 4 different cameras mounted on his screen. What you can actually see on the screen is the use of 3 of these cameras in a single MCU conference using SCOPIA Elite: Top right corner images are a picture-in-picture layout that the VC240 monitor itself supplies. You can see there the video coming from the MCU to the VC240 terminal. The large screen in the middle is the SCOPIA Desktop client, opened in the call as well. On the right side, below the picture-in-picture view, there’s a small window. This one is the video coming from the Cisco VT Advantage, which shows the remote video on the PC, while doing the voice call from the Cisco phone. While I wouldn’t recommend this setup as a reasonable one, I must say that now the only question left is: why the 4th camera?
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 8th, 2010 | Filed under Miscellaneous
It is with great joy that I am writing the words above, welcoming to the RADVISION family new members, coming from the delightful city of Ancona. Il Porto Di Ancona. (CC) Yep, the word is out – we have acquired the intellectual property of Aethra, a video conferencing endpoint manufacturer and a long-time partner of RADVISION, as part of our end-to-end strategy. I worked with engineers from Aethra throughout my years in RADVISION. As most of our industry, they were using our developer tools. I have always found the people there warm and friendly. Not that there’s any wonder here -after all, they are Italians… But back to the acquisition — We will now have a development center in Italy, one that will specialize in high-end High-Definition video conferencing room systems. This is going to be a great complement to our current array of video infrastructure and endpoints. I’d venture to say that I see this as a great step forward, as now customers will be able to enjoy our end-to-end video conferencing solution – infrastructure, room systems, personal terminals and desktop clients. Not to mention our endpoint technology, that can be licensed to build your own communication products, which will work perfectly and seamlessly with all of these. So – il benvenuto alla famiglia, RADVISION Italy!
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 3rd, 2010 | Filed under Miscellaneous
Happy New Year! You might have noticed that although we are already in New Year celebration mode around the world, we’ve been quite active lately on our blogs. The reason is simply because here in Israel it’s business as usual. Still, in the holiday spirit, I think it’s a good time to see what the main themes in the blog were, focusing on the most discussed issues of 2009. Twitter While definitely not the main subject of this blog,
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 29th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
There are things that define exactly where you are without the need for any additional context. The other day, I went to a colleague of mine to consult with him about something I am dealing with here in my daily work. What I noticed was this: Is it me, or are there just too many cameras in this picture? I don’t even want to think about the moment he will get his personal VC240 monitor (which will probably happen a lot sooner than later). It will increase the number of cameras staring at him and watching him to 4. This can only happen in a video company.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 28th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
[Once in a while there comes a time to write a post unrelated to VoIP. Or anything else in this blog for that matter. The sole purpose of the post is to attract readers that might find it amusing enough to stay around a bit - or god forbid subscribe to the blog in question. Guess what? You are now reading such a post.] - What if Microsoft was the company behind the service we all call Twitter? Every tweet
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 26th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous, Technology
[As you might already know, we're working full stream on our Annual Developers Seminar here in Israel. Amir Zmora was kind enough to provide a bit more details. We hope to see you there!] Last week we sent to our customers in Israel a Save the Date note for our annual seminar to be held on October 27th in Herzliya, Israel. I would like to give you some heads-up on what will be covered in this event. Continuing our latest
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By guest | September 16th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
There is something about “top” list posts that I usually don’t like – at least as a writer; at least when it comes to “top blogs”. How can you compare different writers and say who makes it to the top and who doesn’t? That said, I have to admit that being on a “top blogs” list is always flattering. So while I didn’t make it to The Seamless Enterprise’s “top” 7 VoIP blogs to watch, I did made it to Alan Lindsay’s (from CompareBusinessProduct.com) top 33 VoIP blogs: VoIP Survivor – IMS and VoIP industry insights – a Radvision blog – covers a good range of VoIP industry issues in some depth I was very flattered, although a bit puzzled by the choice of words. “In some depth”? I guess I have something to improve, and need to try a bit harder from now on… J The best thing, though, isn’t being on the list, but being there alongside so many of the blogs on my reading list, not to mention finding a few that I have somehow missed until now. I guess this list was CompareBusinessProduct.com’s way of saying “hello world!” to the rest of the “VoIP bloggers” out there. Well, Alan Lindsay, it worked! I’ll be reading your blog from now on as well.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | September 7th, 2009 | Filed under Around the net, Miscellaneous
[Anatoli Levine, our Director of Product Management in the US for the Technology Business Unit, is headed to ITEXPO. He wanted to share with you his expectations of things to come .] I want to talk about expectations. You got that right. Arguably, it is the moments in life when you expect something to happen, are the best things that come out of it. Not when you already got what you wanted (or not), but the expectation of something [good,
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By guest | August 31st, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
[Rachel Hedaya, an intern at RADVISION, is greatly assisting us with blogs and other marcom activities that are going on. She decided to go green, with several initiatives taking place, one of which is this post here.] Jan Levinson is here to see you…. I’ll admit it – I love The Office. One of the things it highlights is that every manager has their own style of communicating. Jan, the corporate manager of Dunder Mifflin, always seem to drive to
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By guest | July 20th, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
It is about time to introduce the “pet project” I’ve been working on in the past year or so, from the conception of the idea, through the whole design process, to the actual implementation and launch: The RADVISION Developer Community. This new section on our corporate website provides a platform for users to engage with RADVISION employees, as well as other users, to share ideas and knowledge about VoIP development. It is also the reason why my title has been
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 1st, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
