Posts filed under 'Miscellaneous'
[Dilihtium Networks is restructuring. Amir Zmora outlines a transition plan that we now offer for customers who wish to migrate to RADVISION 3G-324M Technology.] I have joined RADVISION in 1999 and if you take out my 4 years detour at other places I’m around this industry for some time now. During these years we have had the pleasure to compete with rival companies. This has always been a great catalyst for us and the industry pushing everyone to innovation and
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By guest | August 14th, 2010 | Filed under Miscellaneous
June has been a really interesting month. It started off with the iPhone 4 FaceTime announcement and ended up with Cisco’s Cius announcement – from mobile video telephony for consumers to enterprise “personal telepresence”. It happens that I’ve published this month a few posts on other blogs about these subjects, so if these subjects interest you, check them out. The past, present and future of Mobile Video Telephony (Vision Mobile) I have met with Andreas Constantinou from Vision Mobile when
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 1st, 2010 | Filed under Miscellaneous
Here are a couple of short updates that would interest you. Carnival of the Mobilists The Carnival of the Mobilists is hosted this week by Antoine RJ Wright, who wrote a guest post here on the mobile address book a few months back. He does a great job with the carnival, and on his 31st birthday. Happy birthday, Antoine! Next week, the carnival will be hosted here, right up the alley of the Israel independence day. It should be interesting to see what writers will contribute to the carnival (I already have mine ready, and it will be published tomorrow). Telepresence On a different note, I’ve written a post at No Jitter about the ROI (or lack of it) of telepresence. It looks like it’s shaping to be a very controversial post, at least according to the number of comments there after just a single day. If you’re interested in visual communications and telepresence, you might want to head there, read the post and join in on the conversation. Another telepresence related post of mine just got published on the IMTC blog. It discusses the new IMTC activity group dealing with telepresence. It might seem like I am two different people from these two posts, but here’s the thing: I like visual communications, I think telepresence is great, but it just needs better implementations and solutions, coupled with a lower price to make any sense.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 14th, 2010 | Filed under Miscellaneous
You can call this an administrative message. We’ll be entering Passover shortly, which essentially means no work for me. That in turn causes posts here to slow down a bit. I will try to post here next week, but I make no promises. If you’re Jewish – then happy Passover to you. If you’re not, then just keep up the good work! See you on the other side of this holyday with an extra few pounds in my belly.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 25th, 2010 | 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
