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...]
Industry News Summary – Videoconferencing, LTE speeds, Piracy, P2P communications
September 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
Industry News Summary – Telepresence Robots, LTE and Spectrum
August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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...]
Industry News Summary – AT&T, FCC, Lightsquared & Polycom
August 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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...]
Industry News Summary – VoIP & Baseband, VoLTE & IR.92, Skype Facebook & Google Plus
July 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The unspoken truth of VoIP – The Move Away from the Baseband
Martin Sauter from the blog “WirelessMoves” mention an often forgotten fact regarding VoIP on mobile phones – Today’s circuit switched calls are done via the Baseband radio chip, while future VoIP calls (be it Skype or VoLTE) might be done via applications, whether as plugins or as a part of the OS. This might affect power requirements from the phone. For the post, please click here.
FWIC Conference
Zahid Ghadialy from 3G4G Blog posted his summary from the ‘The Future of Wireless International Conference’. Head to his blog for the post: 3G4G Blog.
Skype, Facebook, Google Plus and Videoconferencing
In the midst of the buzz (no pun intended) around Google+, one might forget it’s unique multimedia feature – multi-party video conferencing. But Google Plus isn’t the only social network to offer video-chat: Facebook has partnered with Skype to launch video chat feature, and although it’s one on one chat – It shows us the way the wind blows. Only time will tell if software-only vendors has something to worry about…
For more information go to FierceEnterprise.
GSMA PRD IR.92
I have received questions regarding the VoLTE architecture and GSMA IR.92 specs so for the benefit of all who are interested – Here is the document:
IMTC SuperOP! Updates – H264 SVC Charter Meeting & TIP Webinar
May 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
- 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
