[We're still in the cameras part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] [This time, I've asked Fabrizio Ghetti, Video System Engineer in our Italian R&D center, to provide a short list of requirements to look for when shopping around for endpoint cameras.] When you go out to shop for a camera for your hardware endpoint design, you will be looking at a lot of brochures showing different specifications. Even if
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By guest | March 3rd, 2010 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] In the last two posts of this series, I’ve dealt with the layouts required for a videophone. In these posts, I’ve shown the range of different layouts that are used in today’s video conferencing terminals, and I’ve even hinted that scaling (up and down) the video streams is often required to support the various layouts. I’d like to elaborate a bit further in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 14th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out! [While I've done my best to cover the various options for HD video chips and the trends in the market, I also wanted to take a deeper dive and explain how we analyze such a chip. In this case, the TI DM6467, which we have selected as the basis for our BEEHD product. For that, I asked Amit Klir, our resident video architecture
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By guest | November 16th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
VoIP Security has long been viewed as another one of those features that no one really needs, but must be in the feature list to win bids. It is also something that companies who have it tout as mandatory and scare the hell out of prospective customers. I hate both ends of this equation, but I do feel that there is something to consider here. R Reddy over at the GIPS blog believes that security threats are real in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | August 20th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization, Technology
