[This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] [Fabrizio Ghetti, who wrote a very useful post on camera shopping tips had more tips for you about cameras, so here's another post - this time, camera positioning. As you'll be able to see, I assisted with the images.] So you’ve selected a camera. Great! Now it’s time to decide where to position it. This decision should not be taken lightly –
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By guest | March 10th, 2010 | Filed under HD VoIP
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
[Amir Zmora, who isn't new here wanted to provide his thoughts regarding what may be the future video telephony device of your choice.] I was reading an article by Dave Michels on NoJitter and found it to be music to my ears. I think it is a great article and find his position to be similar to what I have been excited about ever since I got involved in the partnership with SAMSUNG around the SCOPIA VC240. Dave talks about
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By guest | March 4th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
Some of the ideas for posts I write here come from lunchtime discussions. You know the drill: we go out, sit at some restaurant close by, chat, overhear conversations, and once in a while a post idea comes to mind. Making calls on the go This time the idea came from a snippet of a conversation I heard the other day from the table beside me. Of course it had all to do with the (in)famous iPad, and of
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 1st, 2010 | Filed under Clients
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
Earlier this week I’ve outlined what the SIP parity group at the IMTC is all about, but then again – a question does arise – where in the world is H.323 these days? Does Carmen Sandiego know where H.323 is? (image by ~5ir3ntropy) I’ve heard people announce the death of H.323 a lot of times. I guess the first time was about 8 years ago. Funny thing is, it’s still going strong – we actually have new customers
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 18th, 2010 | Filed under Standardization
Last month I’ve stated that I don’t see visual communications done in software anytime soon. But then the question is when – when WILL visual communications be prominent in software solutions? I’d like to risk it and come up with an answer that is a bit counterintuitive even to me: never. Software is never going to be the path to go with visual communications. And why is that? Because as we get closer to a point in time, when the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 4th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
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
This is a question that was frequently asked during our sales meeting this month. I’d like to try and answer it here. In the last couple of years, we’ve had tremendous success with Windows Mobile – we’ve done a bunch of successful projects and had a few product launches. A lot of vendors who develop handsets needed our 3G-324M stack or some other product of ours to be integrated into their device, so life was good. Something got broken the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 25th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
HolesInTheNet, a leading Hebrew technology blog, asked its readers what service they would not be able to live without (Hebrew only. Sorry!). They offered the readers the following options: Gtalk/Gmail Live messenger/Hotmail ICQ Skype ynet (a leading Israeli news portal) Twitter Facebook Walla (another Israeli news portal) YouTube Google Reader So what’s so interesting about it? The results*. They reflect the views of the readers, a rather technology-savvy
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 21st, 2010 | Filed under Technology
