Industry News Summary – Telepresence, Vidyo, LTE

Telepresence Basics at NAB2011
Theo Economides, a consultant at Greenline Emeritus Consulting did a wonderful lecture about the basics of Telepresence. Theo talks about the fundamentals of the Telepresence experience, hardware and the industry. You can see it as a 3 part Youtube video in the following links:
* Part 1
* Part 2
* Part 3

Frost & Sullivan Honors Vidyo with Global 2011 Product Differentiation Excellence Award for Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems
Vidyo received the  Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Videoconferencing. Frost & Sullivan’s analysis indicates that “Vidyo’s disruptive platform and APIs will expand the market”. I already mentioned that Vidyo is on the right track and as a little example – last week (12-17/09/2011) Vidyo was mentioned over the web almost 273 times, which is more than the term “cisco+telepresence” – 255 times. (data by Viralheat.com).

Source: MarketWatch

AT&T Launched its LTE network today
AT&T Will offer service to up to 15 cities until the end of this year.
Source: AT&T.

Consumers love videoconferencing – but only if it’s free!
Analyst survey shows that interest in video-conferencing drops dramatically when it is priced for more than 5 dollars a month.
Source: fierceenterprisecommunications.com

LTE Rollouts at 3G4G Blog
So how many LTE networks are there? and who was first?
Check the data at 3G4G Blog.

About the writer: Itzhak Wolkowicz

Industry News Summary – Facetime Weddings, Telepresence for Education, LTE Speed & More

Telepresence for Ocean Exploration
Scientific ocean exploration is both expensive and limited and unless you are one of the top scientists in a relevant field, it is often out of your reach. Students are usually limited to theoretical studies and can’t experience real work in the field before graduation. That’s where Telepresence come into play [Read more...]

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Industry News Summary – AT&T, FCC, Lightsquared & Polycom

AT&T VP of U-verse & Video Products Interview
FirceTelecom posted an interview with Jeff Weber, VP of U-verse and video products at AT&T.
In the interview Jeff explains why AT&T’s offering for triple service (IPTV, Internet and Voice) proved to be highly successful – a great read in my humble opinion: [Read more...]

About the writer: Itzhak Wolkowicz

Industry News Summary – LTE tablets, Obsolete Broadband Technologies, Mobile & Apple

LTE Tablets – it just makes sense
Dan Jones from LightReadingMobile asks – Where are the LTE Tablets?
Dan summarize the expected models to hit the market soon, and theorize about the LTE iPad.

Lifespan of broadband technologies
A&T CEO caught a lot of attention when he said that “DSL is obsolete”. AT&T is one of the major DSL providers and for many US citizens living in rural areas DSL is the only broadband technology available.
AT&T Claims however that the comment was an answer to a question about state regulation and that the lifespan of a broadband technology went down from 10-15 years to about 5 years.
Examples?
3G was introduced around 2006, LTE began gaining momentum this year.
Docsis 2.0 was released in 2001 and Docsis 3.0 in 2006.

Samsung to sell 300 million phones in 2011
Samsung is fighting for the 2nd place in the mobile phone market, and unlike Nokia (that sold 461 million phones in 2010) – it’s major focus is on smart-phones. If they reach their expected number of 60 million smart-phones, they’ll pass Nokia smartphone sales. More on samsung plans and Samsung -vs- Apple -vs- Nokia at Gigaom.

Apple’s iMessage – Will it really change anything?
Rumor says that carriers weren’t informed of one of the latest updates in iOS (the iPhone) announced a month ago – the iMessage.
iMessage allow sending free messages, photos and files between all iDevices, thus posing a risk to traditional messaging with SMS.
SMS devotees will argue about it’s reliability.
Analysts might compare it to BlackBarryMessanger system (BBM) that existed for years and haven’t ‘killed’ SMS yet.
Will it kill SMS? Share your view by leaving a comment down below.

 

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IMTC SuperOp! 2011 Summary

The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) announces successful completion of SuperOp! 2011, the premier testing event of the telecommunications industry for multimedia communication standards and products.

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