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CTO Technology Session – Interoperability & UC Event

February 15, 2011 By IMTC 1 Comment

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IMTC has scheduled its first ever CTO Technology Session on March 8-9, 2011 at the AT&T Offices in Middletown, New Jersey. This is a forward looking session that will provide you will analyst information of the key technologies, markets and growth rates for UC, Video and Collaboration solutions. It is also intended, that the group will look at how all these technologies come together with a seamless, interoperable solution.

Historically IMTC has been at the center of communication industry technology changes as noted by our work with H.323, H.264, SIP Parity, IMS, T120, H.320 and PSS, 3G-324M, and other profiles for standard telephony protocols. Communications industry is changing rapidly, and IMTC is helping its members to embrace the change.

In addition to Keynote Speakers from AT&T, Cisco and Polycom, below is a list of confirmed speakers:

Confirmed Speakers:

  • Ronald Gruia, Principal Analyst ~ Frost & Sullivan
  • Phil Karcher, Principal Analyst ~ Forrester Research
  • Ginger Arnold, Manager, LMAC IT Infrastructure & Operations ~ Liberty Mutual
  • Russ Cary, Senior IT Manager ~ SAS Global Communications Services
  • Phil Edholm, VP Technology Strategy & Innovation ~ Avaya
  • Casey King, CTO ~ LifeSize  Communications

The IMTC is pleased to invite all IMTC member companies to this FREE event.  We’ll strive to provide you with information and answers to the following questions:

1. What is the current state of the communications industry?

2. What defines video communications today (Skype, Google, Apple, H.323 and SIP) and how it plays into Unified Communications?

3. How do these various video and unified communication solutions come together into a seamless cloud or enterprise implementation?

4. Where should your company spend its resources in order to solve our customers key pain points?

5. What are the key enterprise customer use cases?

6. Where do telepresence solutions fit?

7. What do I need to know about SVC? How does it impact the above?

8. What are the key dependencies impeding interoperability between equipment, network and cloud services?

9. What is the role of devices such as tablets and smart phones in the unified communication mix and specifically with video communications and how do they affect enterprise implementations?

Together with our member companies, the IMTC would like to build a roadmap of key industry technology initiatives to be addressed in order for the seamless communications cloud to work.

This IMTC event is closed to only IMTC member companies. You can send as many representatives from a member company as you like, however we encourage you to invite senior product management and CTO types of individuals.

Venue:

AT&T Offices
200 Laurel Avenue South
Middletown, New Jersey 07748

Closest Airport:

EWR (Newark)

Nearby Hotels:

http://www.research.att.com/evergreen/about_us/middletown_hotels.html

Register Here:
http://www.regonline.com/imtcctoroundtable

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News Summary – TIP, Cisco, CES and more

January 27, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

TIP Webinar
A re-run of the first Telepresence Interoperability Protocol webinar will be held today (27 JAN) at 10:00am eastern (GTM-5).
For Login details/info – Please mail tip_infor@imtc.org.

Vidyo @ CES 2011
Vidyo continues with it’s Home video-conferencing vision and shows HD multipoint video-conference between an iPad, iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nexus S and a Mac.
Vidyo solutions aimed to bring video-conferencing anywhere – Interoperability between Telepresence/HDVC systems to mobile devices can benefit remote home workers for example.
It’s interesting to note that Cisco Umi, which is a great enabler for home Telepresence (at least on the technology/affordability aspect) – still can’t inter-op with Cisco’s professional video-conferencing/Telepresence equipment.
The different approaches to the term “Home Telepresence” are indeed interesting.


Vidyo Videoconferecing demonstation @ CES 2011


FaceFlow – In-browser Group Conferencing
TMCnet recently posted an article about “FaceFlow”, a small startup by a 21 years old Canadian student named Dany Pelletier.
FaceFlow (with a name non-surprisingly similar to Apple’s Facetime) leverage the Flash Player 10.1 support for RTMFP Groups and enable 3 user free video group calling straight from your browser.

Cisco Cius tablet to go live with Verizon 4G service
Mike Dolan from FierceVoIP reports that Cisco Cius will be launching on Verizon network in Spring 2011. Verizon 4G network was recently launched at December 2010 and is expected for nationwide coverage by 2013.

VoLTE ready (Based on VoLGA) Providers
In the great blog WirelessMoves by Martin Sauter, Martin talks about one entrance berrier for LTE smartphones and that’s VoLTE availability.

Cisco Reinventing TV?
CES 2011 brought us many innovations, one of them is the Cisco Videoscape – what Cisco calls “A service provider solution” for the future of the TV. Cisco Videoscape is a delivery platform for service providers and a set-top box for the consumers.
Cisco hopes to attract ISPs with both hardware/software solutions: Videoscape Media Suite and the Cisco Conductor for Videoscape and the consumer soltutions: The Videoscape media gateway, Videoscape IP set-top box and Videscape software clients.
Videoscape is Cisco’s attempt of unifying video consumption at home – making it simple and accessible. At the heart of the system is the media gateway – it will function as a routing and multimedia device and allow the consumer to watch Video and Web content on any connected network device (TV, PC, mobile device). Read More at our Videoscape Post.

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IMTC 2010, A year summary

January 6, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

It’s been a great year for IMTC and the Telecom Industry as a whole, some of our 2010 highlights Were:

* IMTC 2025 Global Virtual Conference was held in April 7th-8th using Radvision’s Scopia and lifestream platforms for broadcast. In the 2025 event we looked into the question – “How will your living room look like in the year 2025?” The two day event was a phenomenal success and attracted hundreds of viewers and many participants from major companies in the Telecom and Video conferencing fields (Cisco, Polycom, Radvision, NXP, PV and more). All the Videos from the 2025 event are available in our Youtube page and Here.

* SuperOP! 2010 - The annual industry flagship interoperability testing event, was highly successful and brought together more than 50 engineers from 14 companies from around the world. IMTC president Anatoli Levine wrote about it: “SuperConnect 2010, consisting of about 35 endpoints and servers, including a 3-screen telepresence system, took about 37 minutes from start to finish, with brilliant High Definition Video shining all over the room”.

* IMTC SIP Parity AG participated in SIPit27 Event – This year event was focused mainly on Video Interoperability, rather than voice. You can read the event summary Here.

* IMTC took ownership of the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) protocol and established a new TIP Activity Group.  Read the TIP section for more details or send an email to TIP_info@imtc.org.

* IMTC First TIP Webinar was held at December 08. We had connectivity problems that prevented some of the speakers and registered users to participate – We apologize for that and will offer recordings of the event.
Additional TIP events are planned – further updates will be announced via our blog.

* IMTC Annual Meeting was held in November 3, 2010.  IMTC had a joint panel on the future of video with speakers from IMTC, UCIF and SIP Forum.

* IMTC President, Anatoli Levin Participated at AppTime Conference in LA, at the 4GWE/ITExpo event. Anatoli was also interviewed by Erin Monda for TMCNET 4GWE news.

* IMTC IMS AG leader and BoD member, Andrea Basso, participated at the 3G00/ETSI IMS November 2010 workshop on Implementation, Deployment and Testing.

We are looking forwards into 2011 events and activities – Stay Tuned!

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Industry News Summary – Microsoft, LTE, GSMA

November 18, 2010 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

“The era of the PBX is over”
Microsoft launched it’s Lync software yesterday, aiming to replace corporate phones and promote unified communications throughout Microsoft office products. Lync combines Voice Calling, Video Conferencing and Instant Messaging and even supports devices like the Kinect Camera on a Xbox360 gaming console.  According to Microsoft – Nikon and Boeing already started using the software.

Is the future non-swappable?
GSMA Propose embedded SIM cards with remote activation, for future mobile devices.
The Taskforce for the proposed includes representatives from AT&T, China Mobile, NTT DOCOMO and just about every other major operator. Embedded SIM will be used for mobile phones and other devices that might benefit from mobile data connection – From cameras to electronic wallets.

LTE added benefit – Cloud Services
In a keynote by Ryuji Yamada, President and CEO of NTT Docomo, Mr.Yamada talked about the benefit of LTE low latency for cloud service applications. Docomo already offers cloud services based on their current pre-LTE network – An online movie editing and delivery services, based on ubitus platform. Low latency characteristics are very important for cloud computing experience.
Docomo LTE network (“Xi”) to be lanuched next month.

LTE connections in Asia-Pac to exceed 120m by 2015
TotalTelecom writes about the new report from GSMA Wireless Intelligence Unit – VoLTE headsets to be available at the end of 2011, China mobile expected to be the first to deploy LTE in China.

Unified Communications – MS or Open Source route?
Join the debate at NetworkWorld.

Lync - Unified Communication with Office Integration


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Industry News Summary – LTE 4G, Telepresence, Unified Communications and more

August 5, 2010 By Itzhak Wolkowicz 6 Comments


LightSquared LTE to cover all of the USA by 2015.
 Harbinger Capital Partner announced it’s plan to build a 7 billion USD, open, wholesale 4G wireless network that will cover most of the USA.
Sue Marek from Fierce Wireless wrote an article about the plan, and remained rather skeptical – Will a private a private-equity firm be able to beat the major industry players such as AT&T? remains to be seen.


A rather optimistic promotional video for LightSquared.

Ericsson is starting to ship LTE equipment in volumes
Demand for 4G LTE grow stronger in USA in particular as Verizon Wireless and MetroPCS are planning to deploy new 4G networks.

Federal help for rural areas phone network development being criticized
As wireless networks become more popular, the government funding for phone networks is being criticized, costing as much as thousand USD for a single resident.

“Chatroulette” founder wants to ditch text chat and focus on video entirely
In an interview for newteevee.com, the founder of the popular video-chat site Chatroulette wants to ditch text entirely – ” Someday we will replace the main page with the new system“.

Global Crossing is entering the telepresence market, based on Teliris Ltd. Products
Global Crossing will also offer the Teliris 6G telepresence system with scalable video coding.

UK broadband test speeds turn “shameful” for many ISPs
In UK, ISPs are “Shamed by UK Broadband Speed Tests” according to lightreading.com.
Actual broadband speeds of packages like the 8-10mbit/s DSL are actually 3.3Mbit/s. The study also shows Virgin Media Inc. supply better results than Oranke UK, BSkyB Ltd. And TalkTalk Telcom.

Polycom and McAfee Alliance to Further Secure Unified Communications and Collaboration
IMTC member, Polycom, announced an alliance with McAfee (Anti-Virus maker and computer security company) in order to develop and market Unified Communication security solutions.

Telepresence Robot from Japan
Osaka University and Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) have collaboratively developed a new portable teleoperated android robot – “Telenoid R1”. This robot mimics human appearance in a “minimal” way, thus does not look like a male or female, nor young or old. The Telenoid R1 sync its movement to the movements of the operator, remotely, via a PC with a special software recognition of eye mouth and head movements. Indeed, an unusual and futuristic approach for telepresence.

Telenoid R1 - Innovative, but rather strange.

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