Can SIP be used for consumer market devices or will it only exist in the enterprise domain? This seems like an easy question to answer - surely it is suitable for consumers as well. I met with a customer last month who is working on a videophone consumer product. Their company is specifically looking for a proprietary signaling protocol. The reason for this is: SIP is good only for the enterprise market I know for a fact that
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | April 7th, 2008 | Filed under Clients, Technology
Developing a videophone or any other telecommunication client? You should start thinking seriously about IMS. Today, there are two main standards used for multimedia communications over IP: SIP and H.323, where SIP is the standard which is being adopted by most vendors today - especially in the consumer market. As 3GPP, 3GPP2, TISPAN, Packet Cable and WiMAX have all selected IMS for their next generation networks, it goes without saying that a lot of vendors will start working on IMS
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 6th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Video as a means of communication between people has been with us for over a decade, but it hadn’t made it mainstream yet. It seems like there is evidence of that changing.Technology wise, we are almost there: We now have the processing power, bandwidth and knowledge of how to build a video system enabling people to interact in real-time and provide good quality of experience. Only problem is, video telephony is not taking off as much as it should, but
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 28th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
Video telephony as a technology is making its way to the consumer market. The next step is the set top boxes and the world of IPTV.Today, people around the world can use video calling on millions of 3G mobile handsets in Europe and Asia. There are issues with pricing, usability and quality, but I can never have enough of the smiles of my baby girl on my 3G phone. Video telephony on mobile handsets is just the beginning - in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | February 21st, 2008 | Filed under Clients, IPTV
Samsung has unveiled a new monitor during CES - SyncMaster 220TN. The monitor was named a 2008 CES Innovations Honoree. We have been working on this project with Samsung for a while now, providing them some essential software components for the VoIP client. I believe this monitor brings something new and fresh to the video conferencing market - simply because it is priced at a fraction of current video conferencing systems. Wainhouse Research (pdf) provided some insights about this new
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 10th, 2008 | Filed under Clients
