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 – Telepresence Robots, LTE and Spectrum
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Industry News Summary – MetroPCS, LTE, Polycom, Vidyo
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MetroPCS to offer VoLTE in Q1 2012
MetroPCS was among the first companies to offer LTE handset and service in USA in 2010. Yesterday the company’s CEO announce it’s plan for IMS VoLTE services in USA - availability in Q1 2012 and better LTE coverage. Read more at ConnectedPlanetOnline.
Vidyo Landed a big Telemedicine Deal
Vidyo (a long time IMTC member) name seems to be just about everywhere in the last few months. In fact, If one would search their name next to the terms ‘video-conferencing’ or ‘Telepresence’ he might think they are as big as Cisco and Polycom (that alone worth a rematch for my ‘Telepresence Buzz‘ article). This isn’t really a surprise as they provide the basic technology for successful consumer products such as Google’s video chat (and the recent Google’s ‘hangout’ video-conferencing feature in Google+). Recent success is a deal with Ontario Telemedicine Network, a Canadian health service network with over 3000 health care professionals. Read more about it in All Things Digital.
LTE – A Potential Worldwide Mess?
Intomobile.com remind us all a known yet somewhat discouraging fact – LTE networks will use different frequencies throughout Europe, USA, Middle East and Africa. Analysts at Informa are warning against the phenomena. Will 2G-3G-4G roaming be the norm for 2012?
Polycom completes HP Visual Collaboration Acquisition
Read the PR announcement at Polycom.com
Industry News Summary – Vidyo, LTE, LightRadio
June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Vidyo to offer white-label video chat application
Vidyo, a long-time member of IMTC and advocate of Scalable Video Coding – announced an application portal program that would enable service providers to create white-label video chat applications using the companies proprietary technology (Vidyo already power the technology behind Google’s video chat). Just recently, Vidyo announced it’s low cost multi-screen Telepresence solution -
Read more at GigaOM: http://gigaom.com/video/vidyo-video-chat-app-exchange/
VoLTE Introduction
Alotough I doubt any of our readers don’t know what VoLTE is – In case I’m wrong, the following article by Maisie Ramsay from WirelessWeek is highly recommended. The article summaries VoLTE and it’s current industry status.
Read more at WirelessWeek: http://wirelessweek.com/Articles/2011/06/Technology-VoLTE-Carriers-Beyond-Voice-LTE/
Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio – An ultra small cellular base station
Telco 2.0 tells us about Alcatel-lucent latest innovation in the cellular radio field – the LightRadio 6×6 inch base station.
This small box is expected to revolutionize mobile network coverage and power requirements.
Read More at Telco2: http://www.telco2.net/blog/2011/06/mobile_broadband_smart_small_n.html
LightSquared: Solved GPS interference issues, Network go as planned
LightSquared, the satellite based wholesale LTE network caused major concern to GPS connectivity in it’s initial tests, causing interference in GPS in up to 22 miles distance from LightSquared cell towers. Recently the company announced it’s solved it’s interference issues by reducing the towers power output by 50% and retune it’s frequencies a bit further away from the GPS channel.
Read more at IntoMobile: http://www.intomobile.com/2011/06/20/lightsquared-says-they-found-way-solve-gps-interference-lte-network-go-up-planned/
First Ever Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) Successful Testing at SuperOp 2011
June 14, 2011 By 2 Comments
One of the main attractions of the SuperOP! 2011 was the first ever multi-device VoLTE call over live LTE equipment supplied by Huawei – LTE enchanced radio access (eNB), Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and IMS core. [Read more...]
IMTC SuperOp! 2011 Summary
June 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
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.
