We just hosted a webinar on TMCnet regarding Unified Communication HD Visual Communications for the Masses. A long title for a pretty simple concept: we have video communications today available. How can they be used? And what are the challenges of developing such solutions? These are the kind of issues we see vendors today dealing with. It is also why we started the designing hardware for HD post series. For me, the interesting part in this webinar was the question that was asked to the audience: do you participate in video calls? While almost a third of the participants are not using video communications, the rest do. Almost a third of our audience is active creators of such video communication sessions, while others are more passive. It would be interesting to see how this will change with the introduction of video calling solutions in the consumer market. You can view this visual communications webinar online if you want. I have also embedded here the slides for your enjoyment:
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 21st, 2010 | Filed under Technology
We’ve just officially announced our BEE client framework solutions, a broad family of multi-protocol, multi-platform VoIP products. While we have advocated in the past for multi-protocol clients, I think we’ve taken it a step further. Not only do we offer multi-protocol support, we now offer it over multiple platforms in quite a unique manner. Last week, I had 2 meetings back-to-back, in the middle of the night (at least here in Israel, as both were with the west coast) about
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 8th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
My wife and I don’t get to see a lot of movies since we’ve had our baby girl. If we do, it’s usually on Friday afternoons, when we can leave her with her grandparents. Lately, we’ve been able to go out and see two movies: Avatar and Alice in Wonderland – Both in 3D. Watching these movies got me thinking about the great TV shows of my youth – the ones I grew up on, namely the A-Team and MacGyver
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 26th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
[Laurie Berg wrote here first just before the IMTC 2025 event. When I heard her speaking after the event about how much she has learned from assisting in its organization, I asked her to provide some inputs here - who knows, after reading what she has to say about it, you might find yourself wanting to host such a virtual event sooner than you think...] Well, IMTC 2025 Virtual Forum has come to an end. What an event. I’ve done
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By guest | April 12th, 2010 | Filed under Technology
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
I just wrote about why Apple won’t go for visual communications on their 27″ Mac display. But I also don’t believe they will be adding that front facing camera on the iPad either. There are numerous rumors regarding Apple’s plans in this area – some surfaced before the iPad was even introduced to the world and some state that the camera is there but hidden for the time being. Similar rumors have surfaced about the iPhone as well. My own
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 11th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
If you have been reading my thoughts here on the blog for some time now, you might be aware that I am a real supporter of hardware-based video telephony: I believe that if you truly want to do High Definition video calling, you must have a physical terminal and not a software client on your PC. Well, in the past few weeks I had my doubts about that statement above – PCs are getting cheaper all the time and
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 14th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
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
[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
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] This is the first real post in this series, so I’d like to start off with the reason for writing this series. We’ve set out here to create a product to assist customers with developing a high definition video client – our BEEHD. The main “theme” behind this product is to reduce the hassles involved with dealing with standards and video coding
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 26th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
