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Industry News Summary – Mobile Video, Data and more

December 19, 2011 By IMTC Leave a Comment

Only 18% of online video companies use adaptive bit rate technologies
Skyfire claims that mobile video isn’t pushed to its full potential because of slow adaptation of ABR technologies by the online video companies. less than 18% of online video companies use ABR, while in some platforms such as Android – none of the companies included in the survey used ABR. Read more at: Intomobile.

Should Avaya buy Radvision or Vidyo?
Andy Abramson, from VoIP Watch believes that there are good reason to buy either of them, in order for Avaya to stay competitive with Cisco and Polycom. Read more at VoIP Watch.

NTT DoCoMo predicts 48$ increase in data revenues for the next 4 years
The first provider to earn more money out of data instead of voice, now expects data revenues to reach 1.83 trillion yen ($22 billion) to the end of March 2012, rising to JPY 2.7 trillion ($32 billion) by FY2015, which ends in March 2016. Read more at TotalTele

Microsoft LYNC vs Older SIP Communicator Data Consumption.
The new mobile LYNC client shows some great data consumption numbers, compared to older technologies:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2011/12/analyzing-and-comparing-microsoft-lync.html

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Filed Under: Industry News Tagged With: Andy Abramson, Avaya, Cisco, NTT DoCoMo, Polycom, Radvision, Vidyo, Voice over IP

Concerts of the 21th Century – Via Telepresence?

April 20, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

Broadcasting music performances over video-conferencing equipment isn’t new – Polycom, Cisco, DVE has been experimenting with it for years. It is only recently that Telepresence became mature enough for concert streaming. The key challenge with Telepresence concerts isn’t a technology one, it’s entirely a business issue. Telepresence concerts must offer something new in order to attract artists and record labels. Among the key points in favor of Telepresence concerts are: [Read more...]

About the writer: Itzhak Wolkowicz

Filed Under: Industry News, Telepresence Tagged With: ChipChick, Cisco, jewel, Polycom, Telepresence, Telepresence Concert

Industry News – Umi Interop, RCS-e, Skype & Panasonic and more

March 13, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

Cisco Umi Interoperability
Cisco announced that it’s Home Telepresence offering – Umi, will be interoperatable with ‘Umi-Connect‘ – A umi software client for Mac and PC and Cisco’s professional Telepresence systems.
This announcement puts Umi in a whole different perspective, as Umi can now be used for business purposes, i.e – home workers.
In addition, Cisco revelaed a new 720P only version, for a cheaper $399 price and lowered the monthly fee (for a yearly plan) to 9.95$ a month from 24.99$ a month.
Lack of interoperability and high ownership cost were major points of criticism when Cisco introduce Umi and it remains to be seen how this latest move will improve Umi acceptance in home and SOHO markets.

3G4G blog posted a short article about RCS (or in it’s latest form – RCS-e)
The article gives a good overview of what RCS is, and is a recommended read. Back in July 2010 we interviewed Jose M.Recio from Solaimes about RCS and it’s relevancy in the age of the smartphone – As it seems, it’s still is.

Panasonic Viera Blu-ray players to include Skype
Panasonic announced Skype support for it’s new blu-ray player line (2011). Video-Chat will be supported via the Freetalk Conference Camera, which will cost 99$ and be available starting this month.

Spectrume Reform Legistlation
US Senators Olympia Snowe and John Kerry recently introduced the Reforming Airwaves by Developing Incentives and Opportunistic Sharing (RADIOS) Act. The proposed RADIOS Act aims to provide FCC and NTIA detailed information needed for smarter allocation of the Radio spectrum.

LTE sprint
Spirt is one of the few operators in USA that use CDMA for voice and data connectivity – Steve Elfman, Sprint’s president of network operations said that the company will make a decision regarding LTE in mid-year, however if Sprint does decide to use LTE it could be deployed by year-end 2013.

About the writer: Itzhak Wolkowicz

Filed Under: Industry News, Interoperability, Technology insight Tagged With: Cisco, Cisco Systems, High Definition Video, John Kerry, LTE, rcs, rcs-e, Skype, Telepresence

Weekly Industry News – TIP, Polycom, Skype, Facebook

February 20, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

Polycom announce support for TIP
Polycom Inc. announced future support for the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol:
IMTC TIP protocol was developed by Cisco to enable multiscreen interoperability with multi-vendor Telepresence systems. Polycom MCU – “UC Intelligent Core Platform” will support TIP from Q2 2011.
More about TIP in our special TIP Hub : http://blog.imtc.org/index.php/tip

Tip Webinar Recording
For those of you that missed the first Telepresence Interoperability Protocol Webinar, here is the full recording:

We thank David Benham from Cisco, for the help with the editing and distribution.

Skype Easter-egg allows easy setup of multi-party calls
Skype hidden feature creates URL links for Multi-Party calls invitations – In order to create a URL link for a multi-party call, type “/” from the group chat window. The result will be a URL link directing to the call – for more details, check VoiceOnTheWeb Article.

Telstra CTO calls Femtocell ‘A Dumb Idea”
In Mobile World Congress 2011, Hugh Bradlaw talked about his views on Femtocells – “Femtocells — I usually classify these in the dumb-idea-of-the-week category.” He said that Femtocells are an ‘Admission of Defeat’ and that LTE isn’t the end of all capacity problems – QOS is.

Facebook on SIM?
While smartphones slowly becoming a norm for cellular phones, less capable devices are still the most common form – And while facebook have about 500million user-base, less than half of it has smartphones that enable web/application access to facebook.
Gemalto, the world largest SIM manafucture, announced the development of a SIM facebook client, that will support just about every type of sim-based mobile phone.
Interactions with Facebook (statuses, friend requests, etc.) will be sent as Class 2 SMS data. Read more about it at 3G4G Blog.

About the writer: Itzhak Wolkowicz

Filed Under: Industry News, Interoperability, Technology insight, Telepresence Tagged With: Cisco, Cisco Systems, Facebook, Femtocell, International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC), Mobile World Congress, Polycom, Skype

Presentation – Cisco TIP Telepresence protocol in the SuperOP2010 Event

July 15, 2010 By Anatoli Levine Leave a Comment

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

Cisco TIP Presentation

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