In the past couple of months we’ve hosted several webinars with TMCnet. This last one before the summer break was about the hidden challenges of developing HD visual communication products – a topic that is dear to me. As it so happens, I presented this webinar alongside Sagee Ben-Zedeff, the writer of my sister blog here, Video Over Enterprise. The premise of this webinar was that once people start developing an HD video communication terminal, they will focus on their
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 15th, 2010 | Filed under HD VoIP
I was on a business trip last week, visiting some prospective clients in Asia. If there is anything that I learned there is that the Android OS is about to get a real boost from the Asian vendors, a lot bigger than the one we see now. This is quite big in its own right – there is good reason why Android sales have surpassed the iPhone – it’s a simple matter of scale. But there was something that came
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 17th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Most of the time we try to obey the 3 Bs: Better, Bigger, Bolder. This is also true for our marketing activities, as well as for our blog posts. But here’s a little secret I can tell you about our industry (and not just it): when it’s time to walk the walk, we are all slaves of the almighty RFP. As our industry caters mainly for large enterprises and government agencies, a lot of the deals out there are won
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 25th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] One of the most burning issues involved with designing a video telephony device is where the video codec is going to reside. The reason is that this is by far the most CPU intensive task of the whole system, especially when going up to high definition. I’d like to discuss the various options that exist today on the market, with their relative
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 2nd, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
It seems like everywhere you go, checking for standards, there are at least two for the price of one: PAL and NTSC, DVD-HD and Blu-ray. H.323 and SIP. SIMPLE and XMPP. Why can’t we just get along and decide on a single protocol for each task? One ring to rule them all? They used to call it “convergence”. In the distant past, when people were looking for a nicer word for “VoIP”. It meant all types of devices talking
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 1st, 2009 | Filed under Standardization
