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’ve been an avid promoter of the Android OS up to the point of being ridiculed within the company – whenever someone has something good (or bad) to say about Android, they make sure I know about it. I don’t really mind. I think that Android has a place in the world, especially in 2010 and in the coming years – until something better pops up. For now, it is the best game in town if you are a handset
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | July 8th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Last week I attended a technology event dedicated to embedded solutions. In one of the sessions, a company focused on operating system abstraction layers (OSAL) presented their take on porting. To make a long story short, the hour was devoted to showing how porting becomes a breeze for customers using their product to the extreme – you just “use the product” and voila – no need to think about porting ever again. As someone who’s done his share of porting
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 28th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
TrendChip Technologies Corp., a Taiwanese company, has around 20% market share when it comes to ADSL CPE chipsets. Today, these access devices can also support VoIP, and for that RADVISION offers a few solutions – one of them is the Multimedia Terminal Framework (MTF), which TrendChip is licensing. When you couple ADSL with VoIP, it usually also gets a new name – either IAD or ATA. As TrendChip officially announced their new line of IAD solutions, with a warm reference
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 10th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
Standards are everywhere: from the size and weight of the paper we place in our printers to the way we send emails. Standards are required so that multiple vendors can develop and deploy their products to be used by a large customer base. Have you ever thought how two phones can communicate perfectly well? Ever considered the fact that they were each manufactured by a different vendor? It is because of the ecosystem that was put in place and their
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 31st, 2010 | Filed under Standardization
It’s funny how things go sometimes. Just yesterday I’ve crowned my day as the day of LTE – not because of any special reason, but simply because I bumped into too many LTE related posts in the blogosphere. Here are the interesting ones: It all started in the morning, when Andy Abramson coined LTE as Long Term Excuses. It brought me to Dean Bubley’s blog – a new blog I now added to my reading list. There
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 25th, 2010 | Filed under Standardization, Technology
What do you know? RADVISION has just become one of the first members of a new international organization, the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF). Other members include Aspect, AudioCodes, ClearOne, HP, Jabra, Juniper Networks, Logitech/LifeSize Communications, Microsoft, Plantronics, Polycom, and Teliris. UCIF is definitely not the first such organization that RADVISION has joined. Other such organizations come to mind are IMTC, IMS Forum and SIP Forum. These are all organizations dedicated to interoperability of VoIP related standards and in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 19th, 2010 | Filed under Standardization
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
[Here's something I've tried in the distant past, and liked it enough to start it over again. The idea is to talk to a customer, ask a few interesting and relevant questions, and have the Q&A published here (with the approval of the customer, of course). In a sense, it's a testimonial packed nicely inside a blog post form.] As a start, I’ve approached Seowon Intech, a Korean company in the device component field. One of its product lines deals
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 13th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
I actually haven’t got a clue, but Sagee told me I should write such a post so I did. Let’s see how it goes… iPhone OS 4.0 is now “out”. If you are looking for the official feature list, one of the best places for that would be Kevin C. Tofel’s post over at GigaOm. If there’s any quote from that post that you need to remember it’s this one: “… But the implementation approach and polish of these
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 15th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
