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Presentation – Tandberg Telepresence Solutions

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:50:52 +0000

IMTC Requirements WG Chair Patrick Luthi talked about Tandgerb Telepresence solutions and future requirements for Telepresence systems.

Telepresence Solutions Overview

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Presentation – Vidyo Telepresnce Solutions and SVC

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:30:02 +0000

Alex Eleftheriadis from Vidyo talked about Vidyo vision for the future of telepresence at IMTC SuperOP 2010.

Telepresnce Solutions and SVC

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Presentation – AT&T Telepresence Service Overview

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:27:02 +0000

Sumit Kumar from AT&T presented their Telepresence solutions and talked about Interoperability at the IMTC SuperOP 2010 event.

AT&T Telepresence Service Overview

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Presentation – Cisco TIP Telepresence protocol in the SuperOP2010 Event

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:43:35 +0000

Allyn Romanow from Cisco‘s TSBU (Telepresence Systems Business Unit) talked about the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol at the IMTC SuperOp 2010 Workshop. This is his presentation:

Cisco TIP Presentation

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Presentation – IMTC Telepresence Activity Group Overview

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:15:22 +0000

Stephen Botzko (Polycom) presented an overview of the IMTC Telepresence Activity Group.
You can view his presentation here (Quicktime required, Flash version will be uploaded shortly).
Updated – flash version for web-viewing is here:

IMTC Telepresence Activity Group Presentation

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Is there a place for Rich Communication Suite in the mobile future?

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:39:05 +0000

We have asked Jose M.Recio from Solaiemes to talk about RCS and to shed some more light about his IMTC 2025 presentation (Jose participated in the Triple Play Session and presented RCS examples).

Solaiemes creates communication solutions built upon the RCS features of the IMS standards.

RCS (Rich Communcation Suite) is an industy effort driven by a group of operators, infrastructure and device vendors – Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens networks, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, etc.

The main RCS features are -

Enchaned Phonebook, Messenging and Calls – Sharing of multimedia content, chat and presence that works across devices and operators.

I’ve asked Jose to talk a bit about RCS and his view on the mobile market:

Hi Jose, can you share your thoughts about RCS and how your what your company does in that field?

Jose: RCS, short for RichCommunicationSuite, it is a coordinated effort, driven by GSMA (the mobile industry association) and backed by the major players to develop a common set of “beyond-SMS-and-voice” basic enablers that are available out of the box in mobile, and work seamlessly across carriers and are also accessible from a PC/broadband client.

Think messaging, video-sharing, etc. available even in cheap handsets, preinstalled and working across carriers. One single use case for doing zillions of things.

Isn’t these features available on many smart-phones?

Jose: Yes, that’s true. But that there are billions of users that are using feature, cheap, phones.

Besides, carrier services are a bit more trusted, especially by businesses.

Being able to choose – would you develop a service that billions can use or an app that only the owners of a given handset running a given software version can access?

And what would be a good example of an application available to all? SMS!

If a user just knows how to send a SMS, he knows how to access millions of “applications”: insult politicians in TV, receive credit cards alerts, buy ringtones, and of course send a SMS to his loved one. RCS is meant just for that – to create the future mobile applications to be used across all devices – If done properly, RCS allows developers to go beyond SMS, with a richer experience. Many business cases will be discovered. Just leave the ecosystem time to develop.

Are there any devices that support RCS today?

Jose: The “traditional” Telco ecosystem is fully committed on paper to RCS. Devices: NSN, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG… there are Android and prototype iPhone clients. There is also an IOT event per quarter to test interoperability.

For the first time All 3 operators in France, Telefonica and Orange in Spain and all operators in Korea – They all work together in coordinated launches.

Are there any RCS applications currently available or in Beta?

Jose: That’s where solaiemes is focused: Createing APIs so the innovation powerhouse out there in the net can use RCS for things we can’t even think of. That’s exactly what I presented in the IMTC 2025 presentation – How do you put triple play services in a device/screen where you can’t easily deploy a full software client? My IMTC presentation contains test cases (http://solaiemes.com/index.php?id=94)

Today, some of the features of mobile devices aren’t inter-operable – 3G video calls and iPhone Facetime – Will RCS applications will be interoperable with high end smartphone applications?

Jose: That’s exactly the point, Many Services do not make sense any more from person-to-person. However they make a lot of sense when you introduce a business process or an application: SMS and video calls are very good examples.

The RCS applications that we see as successful would be the ones linked to business apps or cloud-based/community-based use cases.

Check for example the Twitter example in the previous Link – a user may have a native full twitter client (on high end smartphone, or a PC) or a RCS app (feature/simple devices) – Twitter will be the same for both.

SMS success for consumers and carriers (main source of data revenues) is based on ubiquitous presence of the basic enabler (every mobile phone supports SMS) and common use experience and use case. It doesn’t matter if you send or receive a SMS for voting in a TV program, buy a ringtone, get a notification of a credit card transaction, ect. It’s all the same.

On summery – Carries can either look for the SMS way: Common basic experience, based on a Telco enabler (RCS?), for many services. Or for the App way – try to grab one of the “must have” future few applications.

Based on what happened so far, it seems more reasonable to go for the first one – Carrier intermediating third parties offering services over the enabler.

IMTC SuperOp! 2010 – Interoperability. Evolving

Anatoli Levine — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:56:13 +0000

And so another busy week became a history. IMTC SuperOp!, annual industry flagship interoperability testing event, brought together more than 50 engineers from 14 companies from around the world in a small town of Jesi in Italy, to continue enhancing interoperability of multimedia communications products.

SuperOp Testings

Of course you can not drive forward by constantly looking into a rearview mirror. Not looking in to that mirror at all is also dangerous ( especially for those who likes to drive fast ).
Reflecting on the past, it is easy to see how much the level of interoperability improved and evolved. Decade ago, an hour long testing time slot was spent on properly registering with the server, and then may be making one successful simple call (or not). Video did look decent on a small screen ( with huge piece of hardware behind it to make it work).
The term “HD Video” was not even coined yes. And the term “telepresence” was unheard of, at least in the practical terms. SuperConnect, a culmination point of a week-long testing, which was connecting all devices passed the preliminary testing, would take more than half a day to achieve.

Fast forward 10 years. To cut the chase as anyone in the industry can figure out the particulars, the 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.

Inter-operable Indeed!

Can we now gleefully rest on laurels and declare “mission accomplished”? You guessed it right, the simple two letter answer is “no”. Video communication is only starting to become personal and getting into homes. Mobile video communication is still largely non-existent, and both personal and mobile communication being extremely clustered (read: uninteroperable) as the very least. We are starting (only now) to define telepresence standards which will later on lead to the interoperable implementations. The work just started in various IMTC Activity Groups on other important communication technologies, such as VoLTE and Live Streaming over HTTP. All in all, there is a lot of exciting work ahead of us on making the world better connected (and, therefore, smaller) place – so come on over and will see you all next year at IMTC SuperOp! 2011!

Presentation – Traffic Emulation for Telepresence Interoperability testing

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:49:47 +0000

Shenick Network Systems is a maker of network performance monitoring systems.
In the IMTC SuperOP 2010 event, Mark Lambe talked about Traffic Emulation in, as a part of the interoperability testing process for Telepresence systems.

Telepresence Testing Approach by Shenick

IMTC 2025 (Day2) Metadata for Companies and Users

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:24:27 +0000

Metadata For companies and users, Panel at the IMTC 2025 Event:
Moderator – Andrea Basso, AT&T.
Alberto Messina, RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana)
Paolo Dettori, IBM
David Gibbon, AT&T

Watch It here (Playlist) or see the following parts:

Part A

Part B

Part C

Part D

Part E

From Voice to Social – Keynote By Monty Sharma (Vivox) IMTC 2025 Day 2

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:36:26 +0000

Monty Sharma from Vivox talked about voice communication in social applications -
* How voice communication enhance social interaction?
* The VoIP revolution from carries viewpoint – business models and economic impact.

Click here for all IMTC 2025 Videos.