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Latest News and development in the videoconferencing industry and what they mean
Updated on Jan 01, 12
Created on Feb 12, 11
Category: Computers & Internet
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J Scott Christianson's List: Videoconference News
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Jan 01, 12
"It would be nice if some of the cameras had better adaption to poor lighting condition, just like our eyes do" -Scott
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As participants join video meetings from homes, cubicles, hotel rooms, or airports, production values can vary. Some sit before a window, causing sunlight streaming in to show them only as a silhouette, while others' faces are off-center or the background is messy and cluttered. And a high-ceilinged room can affect acoustics. They don't have to look like a TV anchor, but they need to pay a little more attention to their video image.
"I think Cisco should offer an 'Extreme Makeover' service for video," said Kerravala. "There's a lot to think about when you're putting video in your home. There should be a basic set of best practices."
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Jan 01, 12
"2012 as the year of BYOD, Bring Your Own Device, is a good one. Seem that every implementation lately is either using mobile (android or IOS) or folks are making sure that their systems will be mobile compatible. A great way to get extra use from devices that you already have and to use the employe's resources to reduce expenses for the company" -Scott
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This is part and parcel with another of the predictions: That BYOD, or bring your own device, will go mainstream. That idea is driven by employees’ interest in adopting new technologies on their own and then expecting their companies to support the multiple kinds of platforms their individual pieces use.
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Nov 12, 11
'Another great use of VTC to connect students with history in a very real way."-Scott
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Students from 13 lower Hudson Valley schools got first-hand accounts of life in the military Monday when they enthusiastically questioned seven veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan during a veterans videoconference at Southern Westchester BOCES' Lower Hudson Regional Information Center.
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Nov 12, 11
"This might be the right niche for Blue Jeans--as the interlinkage between networks. I have priced out BlueJeans vs. other cloud based solutions like LIfeSize Connections, and BlueJeans is not that cost-effective. But getting a head of everyone else re interconnectivity, is a great advantage." -Scott
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Cloud-based videoconferencing service will demo ability to connect Skype, Lync, and room-based systems from Cisco, Polycom, Logitech LifeSize, and others at Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Nov 12, 11
"Yet another move into the cloud for videoconferencing. I wonder if this will also bring another round of incompatible systems, however. If I am using LIfesize Connections, and you are on Ciscos callway, then can we call each other? " -Scott
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Videoconference start-up Vidyo unveiled a new technology on Tuesday, allowing its videoconferencing service to run using virtual servers, raising pressure on market leaders Cisco Systems and Polycom .
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Nov 09, 11
"I think this is starting to change, largely due to facetime, skype and other consumer level applications."
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By now, video calls and conferences should be as common as texting. So why aren't we all saying, "Can you see me now?"
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Nov 09, 11
"This seems like a really bad idea" -Scott
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Bell Labs Working on "Nethead" Telepresence Robots for Remote Workers
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GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Video Conferencing market. The global market for Video Conferencing is projected to reach US$14 billion by the year 2017, primarily driven by factors such as increase in enterprise mobility and subsequent rise in number of mobile workforce, growing prominence of telepresence and increasing adoption among small and medium sized businesses.
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May 04, 11
The Vatican City, the sovereign territory of the Holy See, has selected and deployed Vidyo’s (News - Alert) VidyoConferencing to enhance interactions between the various locations throughout the organization.
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May 04, 11
"I think this study show what a lot of us have known for years: 1). the market is there and 2). videoconferencing makers don't know how to market their products. I don't know how many times I have had to rewrite or write from scratch a product sheet for a videoconferencing system. People don't want to know about H264, Siren 14, etc. Product lit should read more like: This looks great. It's easy to use, so easy you'll use it everyday, It will save you lots of money. That's it."-Scott
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The biggest hang-up, according to a report from IT products and services firm CDW, turns out most often to be poor salesmanship on the part of the IT departments' video conferencing evangelists. Too often, they try to sway business leaders to foot the bill for the initial outlay for this Star Trek-like collaboration technology without providing either hard and fast return-on-investment figures or at least some well-defined, clearly articulated and measureable soft ROI benefits for their pet projects.
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May 04, 11
"This is somewhat reassuring to me as I have been shifting a lot of my work away from selling endpoints to working as a field engineer/consultant for larger companies on their infrastructure product."-Scott
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A recent study from <!--ZZZLinkBegZZZ-->Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert)<!--ZZZLinkEndZZZ--> finds that world video conferencing infrastructure markets are poised to continue on a high-growth trajectory.
“Following in the footsteps of other conferencing markets, the videoconferencing infrastructure systems market is undergoing a transformation in product features, functionality, and end-user needs, as it evolves into a key element in implementing UC solutions,” according to researchers at Frost & Sullivan .
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May 04, 11
"Vidyo continues to get client after client in all the major vertical markets for videoconferencing. Hopefully this will allow them to get another round of venture capital and take their marketing and distribution to the next level. They have the right product, the right technology and the right approach to kill off polycom and lifesize. If that happens or not is a different story. If I were them, I'd have a aggressive trade-in program for owners of standard def polycom and tandberg units. Make sure that when they switch to HD, they try out Vidyo."-Scott
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After a review of what's available now from vendors including Polycom and Tandberg, MGH is installing a high-definition videoconferencing system from Vidyo, he says.
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Mar 27, 11
"I love my tablet, but do I want to do videoconferencing from it? And if so, do I want to videoconference to friends via googletalk or talk to my conferencing room system?" -Scott
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Mar 27, 11
"It seems like the race is on by every videoconferencing maker, to be compatible with video on various tablet devices. Vidyo had it's ipad2 app on the day that the Ipad2 was available. Each time their is a new disruption to the VTC market, one or more major players drop out and new ones emerge. Haven't seen a Vtel or CLI codec since H323 emerged as the dominant means of connecting videoconferences." - Scott
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Publically held Polycom Inc., based in Pleasanton, said it is paying $50 million in cash for Accordent, which makes a product that enables businesses to hold streaming live webcasts for presentations, meetings and classes. Venture-backed by TVC Capital of San Diego, Accordent has more than 1,200 customers and reported $9 million in revenue last year.
Accordent, founded by its chief executive, Michael C. Newman, is a Microsoft strategic partner and will help Polycom offer better integration of its products with Windows applications, Polycom said. The announcement did not say what Newman’s role with the company would be after the merger.
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Feb 26, 11
"How good is good enough when it comes to video quality? Would holograms add $1m of value to your telepresence usage? I just don't see the value proposition."-Scott
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Its work also caught the attention of Cisco Systems, which has been looking to expand its videoconferencing business. Musion was in talks with Cisco on the technology and helped develop an event in Bangalore, where Cisco CEO John Chambers spoke to holographic images on stage of executives who were in California. Cisco says it's studying the technology but is "not at the stage of having a (commercial) product in a meaningful volume," says spokesman Marc Musgrove.
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Feb 26, 11
"Moving videoconferencing to the cloud seems to make sense, but the network and processing requirements for video are awesome compared with an average Google Doc (despite the efficiencies achieved with Vidyo's Scalable Video Coding technology). The Quality of Service (QOS) on the tail-end circuits and connections to the end-user will have the biggest impact on usability of such a service. Dedicated video-endpoints and MCUs have the advantage that they are operating over networks with high QOS and with all the connections, parts and pieces under the control of one entity."-Scott
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Video conferencing provider Vidyo is now offering a version of its platform that can be used by telecommunications and other companies to deliver video conferencing technology as a cloud service. On Tuesday, Vidyo introduced VidyoRouter Cloud Edition, which uses the company's patented version of the H.264 scalable video coding (SVC) compression standard.
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Vidyo has been busy in recent months rolling out its VidyoConferencing technology. In November 2010, HP announced that three of its new Visual Collaboration video conferencing products would be based on Vidyo's technology. In December, Vidyo said that the Japanese telecommunications carrier KDDI will be adopting Vidyo to offer a video conferencing service to its customers.
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Feb 26, 11
"Is videoconferencing a subversive technology? The media wants to attribute the Egyptian revolution to organizing through facebook and other social media, but during this videoconference to students in Egypt, we hear first hand that it was cause of the revolutionary fire, but an accelerant."-Scott
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It's been called the "Facebook Revolution," but Egyptian students said in a Wednesday videoconference it's not a fitting label for the revolt that toppled longtime Egypt President Hosni Mubarak.
The Egyptians, from the American University in Cairo, visited with communications students at Queens University of Charlotte and Marquette University during a three-way Internet videoconference that focused on the social media's impact on the revolution.
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Feb 12, 11
"This video shows how the TIP protocol is used from the Telepresence side of a conference to connect to multiple endpoints and Telepresence Systems. With the integration of TIP into the Polycom endpoints, you can expect to easy integration of Polycom endpoints into the mix" - Scott
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TANDBERG First to Demonstrate Immersive Three-Screen Telepresence Interoperability with Cisco TelePresence
See the first ever demonstration of telepresence interoperability between TANDBERG Telepresence and the Cisco CTS 3000, enabled by integrating Cisco’s Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) into the award-winning TANDBERG Telepresence Server.
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Feb 12, 11
"It is funny to see the number of integrators and small companies that are rolling their own Telepresence systems. It reminds me of a what a Kansas based company (Cytek Media Systems) did a number of years ago before Polycom developed the VS4000. For schools that wanted multiple monitors in their I-TV rooms, they took apart Polycom Viewstations, got rid of the cameras and then took four encoding boards and combined it with their own control system (a basterdized AMX system) and packaged it all up. It worked great, but the problem is that you are now dealing with equipment that can only be serviced by one company (Cytek) despite the fact that their product is based on Polycom and AMX equipment. Not really worth the risk ,IMO. "-Scott
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The DVE Huddle Room is an elegant immersive conferencing system for meeting rooms throughout the enterprise providing Real Telepresence.
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Feb 12, 11
"This is a significant development in the videoconferencing world. For a long time, videoconferencing makers assumed that telepresence products would have to adapt to their H323 standards. But it was just a matter of who would blink first. Now we know that it is the endpoint makers who will be adapting to the telepresence standards." -Scott
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- Polycom expanded interoperability unlocks greater value, flexibility and investment protection for multi-vendor deployments
- Interoperability to include support for non-standard Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) developed by Cisco
- Polycom UC Intelligent Core solution becomes industry's most comprehensive standards-based UC platform
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