[This is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] There are a few more issues I’d like to tackle in this series of posts, and some of these issues have more of a general nature to them. This time I’m looking into the future. If you are about to develop an HD video terminal, then you are going to invest a considerable amount of thought and time in your hardware. It also
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 24th, 2010 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] In the last two posts of this series, I’ve dealt with the layouts required for a videophone. In these posts, I’ve shown the range of different layouts that are used in today’s video conferencing terminals, and I’ve even hinted that scaling (up and down) the video streams is often required to support the various layouts. I’d like to elaborate a bit further in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 14th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] In my last post, I discussed the different layouts that are required by a video endpoint, focusing mainly on the basics – single video source, single display. This leaves a lot to be desired, both on consumer videophones and on enterprise video phones. I’d like to address this post what happens when you want to go to the enterprise market with a
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 7th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] Last week I tried to cover the video inputs and outputs, which are necessary in videophone design. This time I want to talk about what types of video feeds you would want to see on your monitor(s) and how they would be displayed. The Basics Let’s start with the basics. I’ll assume you have a monitor that supports 720p resolution for the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 30th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
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!] 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
[I've had a chat the other day with a colleague of mine, Danny Loeb, who is the Product Manager for our SIP Server Platform. As part of his work, he needs to deal with the multi-core trend and how that changes the architecture of his product.] Multi-core is all the rage these days. Or at least this is what Intel tell us – almost every month Intel arranges a seminar, workshop, training or some other session about multi-core here in
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By guest | April 21st, 2008 | Filed under Technology
