Two weeks ago, RADVISION hosted the IMTC SuperOp! 2008 event. The most obvious conclusion from this event is that multimedia conferencing (or should I say Unified Communications) is getting better – at least in terms of interoperability. Without exceptions, all companies successfully connected video sessions with one another. The IMTC SuperOp! event is the main interoperability event of the IMTC. In this event multiple activity groups, each dealing with a different multimedia communications technology, gather in a single room to
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 29th, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability
Once a year, RADVISION’s TBU division holds a road-show in Asia Pacific. In these events, we travel between different countries, meeting clients and holding seminars. Our road-show for 2008 starts today. Seminar in Taipei during the 2007 road-show Now, that the IMTC SuperOp 2008 event is over, it is time to look forward on what will happen in the next two weeks. The road-show is a very exhausting event - it spans four different countries, usually in less than two weeks. In each country, besides the frantic runs from one meeting to another there is a seminar. During the seminar we present the various market needs of the industry along with our solutions - all this is “seasoned” with live demonstrations. This year’s theme is “Development for innovative multimedia application for IMS/NGN”, in which we cover market trends, relevant protocol stacks, client and server frameworks and testing tools. The seminar is relevant for companies who are developing VoIP communication products. In the next two weeks, we will be traveling around Asia, with countries such as Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan on our tour this time. If you are around, you are hereby invited. Just drop me a message.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 19th, 2008 | Filed under Technology
The IMTC’s SuperOp! event is just across the corner, and this time, I am proud to say that RADVISION will be hosting it (pdf). Companies coming to this event will be testing their products for interoperability. There are parts of the market though, that are ignoring interoperability. From my own experience, they pay dearly for it in due time. Interoperability can be viewed as a process where you hurtle your product against a product of a different vendor and
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | May 1st, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability
[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 Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 21st, 2008 | Filed under Technology
Around 5-6 years ago, we have started with our 3G-324M efforts. At that time, when we built the business case for a 3G-324M stack, we stated an opportunity window of 5 years only until this technology becomes obsolete. A lot of water have passed down the river since then, but the fat lady isn’t singing yet - and probably won’t in the near future. Some history 3G-324M is a protocol used by 3G mobile handsets for their video telephony needs.
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 27th, 2008 | Filed under Technology
Testing a video telephony system has a lot of aspects. One of the most important ones is the resulting video quality of the system. Problem is, there’s no easy way of doing that. Two approaches exist today for video quality testing: Testing against a known video reference Testing the video without any reference 1. Testing against a known video reference If we receive a video stream that is known in advance, we can
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 17th, 2008 | Filed under Technology
The way in which communication standards are implemented is usually done through protocol stacks. Companies will usually acquire such stacks from third parties and not implement and maintain on their own. How does one select a protocol stack? What makes a protocol stack of one vendor better than that of another? 1. Support Support is definitely the most important aspect of a protocol stack. VoIP products are complex - developers building such products will need all the help they can
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 17th, 2008 | Filed under Protocol stacks
