IMTC SuperOP! Updates – H264 SVC Charter Meeting & TIP Webinar

  • SuperOP! 2011 event will host an ad-hoc meeting for forming a SVC Activity Group:

    SVC has been gaining considerable interest in the video communications industry, with most companies having announced support for it in current or future products. At the same time, there is on-going standardization activity in SVC and related subjects in UCIF as well as the IETF. SVC is currently covered by two standards, the H.264 coding specification and the IETF RTP payload format for SVC (to become RFC 6190). Beyond the SDP offer/answer parameters defined in the payload format, however, it is becoming apparent that the architectural changes made possible by scalable (including simulcast) coding require corresponding signalling support. This meeting will explore these issues and discuss the possibility of creating an SVC AG within IMTC’s Requirements Group to address these new architectures.”
    For more information about SVC & IMTC, please contact: Anatoli Levine (alevine@radvision.com) or Alex Eleftheriadis (alex@vidyo.com).

 

  • IMTC TIP Webinar Since last October IMTC has taken the ownership of TIP (Telepresence Interoperability Protocol). TIP allows immersive multi-screen interoperability across multi-vendor Telepresence systems and is leading Telepresence Interoperability protocol available today in Industry. TIP is now developed IMTC TIP activity group with participation from major Telepresence Vendors. IMTC is hosting a special TIP Webinar at IMTC SuperOp! on May 18th 3PM- 5PM EST. The Webinar will focus on Technical Overview of TIP Protocol and adoption use cases presented by co-chairs of TIP Activity group from AT&T, Cisco and Polycom. Access to TIP Webinar events is available to all IMTC member companies, and non-member companies interested in adopting TIP for their product and services.Event Access Details:Date & Time – May 18th 3PM- 5PM EST
    Conference Bridge Details:
    To connect from your desktop, go to http://www.tryscopia.com/scopia?ID=51876&autojoin
    For other options (including connecting with presentation only or watching the webcast), go to http://www.tryscopia.com/scopia?ID=51876
    We recommend you install the desktop client beforehand. To install the client, go to http://www.tryscopia.com/scopia?client
    H.323 dial-in:
    To connect from a video-conferencing device, dial 65.51.241.196
    Phone dial-in:
    To connect from a phone, please dial 201-773-7100 and enter 51876

For further information, question or comments please contact pritchie@inventures.com

 

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Industry News Summary – VoLTE, LTE & Polycom Telepresence

VoLTE, VoIP and Carriers
Carl Ford from Crossfire Media writes about VoLTE in Net Neutrality and business perspectives. Head to TMCnet for the article.

(Yet another) VoLTE webinar – May 11, 2011
The following webinar by Meik Kottkamp from Rohde & Schwarz will explain VoLTE basics and testing practices – Head to EEtimes for registration. Radvision VoLTE webinar will be held in May 5, 2011, details can be found here.

Huawei files lawsuits against ZTE
Huawei filed patent-infringement lawsuits against ZTE over patents related to LTE data card and infringement of Huawei’s trademark. Huawei claims ZTE used Huawei trademarks in some of it’s LTE data cards. Fore more info, check FirceWireless article. [Read more...]

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David Benham from Cisco on “What is TIP?”

What is this Thumb, Index, Pinky (TIP) thing?

Actually, no, TIP stands for the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol.   But the positional relationship of the one’s thumb, index and pinky fingers makes for a useful analogy to describe one of the key design goals of the TIP protocol.

While there are several standards for robust multimedia conferencing, such SIP, RTP, H.264, H.323, none of have yet dealt with the special challenges of preserving the experience in a conference consisting of many multi-screen endpoints as well as a mix of multi-screen and single-screen endpoints.
In other words, without additional mechanisms, receiving endpoints would only know they received three fingers.  They wouldn’t know how to arrange them in a way that you would recognize as a hand, with the thumb, index and pinky fingers in their proper place on the receiving end.
Preserving those “in-person” positional relationships in a multi-point conference, with other video and audio streams (or other fingers in my analogy) switching in and out quickly from multiple single screen and multi-screen endpoints, is an important goal for any immersive Telepresence system.

TIP does this and a whole bunch more to help enable interoperability between today’s Telepresence systems, but I am going to need some different  analogies to continue.   While I am working on those, please see this informative presentation about TIP.

David Benham
Director of Engineering
TelePresence Technology Group
Cisco Systems

About the writer: David Benham

Presentation – AT&T Telepresence Service Overview

Sumit Kumar from AT&T presented their Telepresence solutions and talked about Interoperability at the IMTC SuperOP 2010 event.
View more presentations from IMTC.
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About the writer: Anatoli Levine

Presentation – IMTC Telepresence Activity Group Overview

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:

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About the writer: Anatoli Levine