IMTC: Interoperability, Multimedia and Standards
Ericsson, Qualcomm make progress on VoLTE
Ericsson and Qualcomm claims to have the world first voice call handover between LTE and WCDMA networks. Read more at Total Telecom.
A Day Made of Glass
Telepresence options wrote an article about the highly successful ‘A Day Made of Glass 2′ video. If you haven’t watched the original yet, see it below:
Videoconferencing at CES
AnandTech wrote about the videoconferencing solutions presented at CES, covering Vidyo and Biscotti.
Rumor: Verizon Wireless to Roll Out VoLTE Services Nationwide in U.S. in Early 2013
According to industry sources, VZQ is now testing IMS based applications in two cities and plans for full coverage with 4G VoLTE call services during 2013. Read more at LightReading. [Read more...]
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.
Spending On Videoconferencing and Telepresence To Double By 2015
Infonetics predicted in a recent released study that enterprises will spend over $5 billion on video-conferencing and Telepresence equipment. [Read more...]
Telepresence Robots to take over video-conferencing market?
Apparently, Telepresence robots (which I already mentioned in my “Telepresence How Does It Work?” post) gain momentum as a valid representation of remote workers: [Read more...]
