Here’s an interesting announcement that got a big media coverage last month – video is going to be 90% of all internet traffic by 2013. That is, at least, according to Cisco’s Marthin De Beer, SVP of the Emerging Technologies Group. I discovered this from a Cisco post with a rather provocative title: De Beer Announces End of the Word at Cisco Live“: “Listening to Marthin De Beer… it’s easy to believe that in a few years you won’t be
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 18th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
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
I’m not kidding here. What is telepresence good for anyway? And just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, here’s a reminder for one of my own definitions of telepresence: “The high end of the high end of video conferencing”. Sagee had a more thoughtful definition of telepresence, which is two years old. And since we’re already delving into nostalgia, here’s another doozy from around the same time – Moz Hussain, director of product management at Microsoft
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 22nd, 2010 | Filed under Technology
It’s funny how things work out. I remember a few years ago, while working on our H.323 stack, that SIP was starting to make some noise. Cool people started talking about it as if it was the best thing out there – way better than that old and clucky H.323 thingy. The sad truth of the evolution of protocols The Dark Ages Well, guess what? Both protocols started at about the same time, which some people regard as “the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 26th, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
Ran has written about standardizing human behaviors in the past, but I think he missed an important question that has surfaced with the latest hype of the Media Phone: who drops the call? I apologize in advance if this sounds like a long rant… My Cisco IP Phone In my office I am the proud “owner” of a Cisco IP Phone. A piece of robust technology, that has been assisting me in my daily work for years now. It
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 14th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
[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
A lifetime may seem too long, but I can sure vouch for 10 years. At least 10 years. Earlier this month, Irwin Lazar reported at Enterprise 2.0 about Microsoft’s arguments that desktop phones are dead: At VoiceCon this week Microsoft’s Gurdeep Singh Paul argued that the desktop phone is dead, and that organizations who fail to make the switch to PC (or application) based telephony will fall behind those that do. Irwin also states that he believes otherwise: Our research
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
[Amir Zmora, our VP marketing, went to VoiceCon 2009, and all I got was this guest post... his first guest post can be found here.] VoiceCon Orlando was held last week, and for me it was the first time attending the event. Weather in Orlando at this time of the year is great, and the venue was very nice – you just had to keep your feet away from those alligators wandering around in the resort’s water streams. If
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By guest | April 6th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
You’d think that with all the open source movement out there, people who “take the plunge” into open source won’t be going back to proprietary solutions now that they have “seen the light”. Well, that’s not always the case. Tom Keating has an interesting post about SHSU switching back from Asterisk to Cisco: Well, 3 years have passed, and according to this thread written by Jason Fuermann, who is responsible for SHSU’s IP phone system, SHSU has switched back to
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 5th, 2009 | Filed under Technology
The current economy situation has raised the issue of expenses reduction for enterprises, both small and large. On the IT side this sometimes boils down to opting for open source solutions. While I can’t refute the business case behind this, it does seem that “open source” as a term is either being over-used or simply abused. I am not one to fuss over semantics (I didn’t even mention Rich writing about it in relations to VoIP and Internet Telephony), but
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
