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January 27, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

TIP Webinar
A re-run of the first Telepresence Interoperability Protocol webinar will be held today (27 JAN) at 10:00am eastern (GTM-5).
For Login details/info – Please mail tip_infor@imtc.org.

Vidyo @ CES 2011
Vidyo continues with it’s Home video-conferencing vision and shows HD multipoint video-conference between an iPad, iPhone 4, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nexus S and a Mac.
Vidyo solutions aimed to bring video-conferencing anywhere – Interoperability between Telepresence/HDVC systems to mobile devices can benefit remote home workers for example.
It’s interesting to note that Cisco Umi, which is a great enabler for home Telepresence (at least on the technology/affordability aspect) – still can’t inter-op with Cisco’s professional video-conferencing/Telepresence equipment.
The different approaches to the term “Home Telepresence” are indeed interesting.


Vidyo Videoconferecing demonstation @ CES 2011


FaceFlow – In-browser Group Conferencing
TMCnet recently posted an article about “FaceFlow”, a small startup by a 21 years old Canadian student named Dany Pelletier.
FaceFlow (with a name non-surprisingly similar to Apple’s Facetime) leverage the Flash Player 10.1 support for RTMFP Groups and enable 3 user free video group calling straight from your browser.

Cisco Cius tablet to go live with Verizon 4G service
Mike Dolan from FierceVoIP reports that Cisco Cius will be launching on Verizon network in Spring 2011. Verizon 4G network was recently launched at December 2010 and is expected for nationwide coverage by 2013.

VoLTE ready (Based on VoLGA) Providers
In the great blog WirelessMoves by Martin Sauter, Martin talks about one entrance berrier for LTE smartphones and that’s VoLTE availability.

Cisco Reinventing TV?
CES 2011 brought us many innovations, one of them is the Cisco Videoscape – what Cisco calls “A service provider solution” for the future of the TV. Cisco Videoscape is a delivery platform for service providers and a set-top box for the consumers.
Cisco hopes to attract ISPs with both hardware/software solutions: Videoscape Media Suite and the Cisco Conductor for Videoscape and the consumer soltutions: The Videoscape media gateway, Videoscape IP set-top box and Videscape software clients.
Videoscape is Cisco’s attempt of unifying video consumption at home – making it simple and accessible. At the heart of the system is the media gateway – it will function as a routing and multimedia device and allow the consumer to watch Video and Web content on any connected network device (TV, PC, mobile device). Read More at our Videoscape Post.

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Cisco – Reinventing TV?

January 20, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

Cisco Reinventing TV?
CES 2011 brought us many innovations; one of them is the Cisco Videoscape – A “service provider solution” for the future of the TV.


Cisco Videoscape is a delivery platform for service providers and a set-top box/media gateway for the consumers.
Cisco hopes to attract service providers with both hardware/software solutions:
Videoscape Media Suite and the Cisco Conductor for Videoscape and the consumer solutions: The Videoscape media gateway, Videoscape IP set-top box and Videscape software clients.
The goal is to unify video consumption at home – making it simple and accessible. At the heart of the system is the media gateway – it will function as a routing and multimedia device and  allow the consumer to watch Video and Web content on any connected network device (TV, PC, mobile device). TV connectivity will be done with the set-top box, and Videoscape will also support Umi – Cisco’s Home Telepresence system.
When it comes to set-top IPTV boxes, it seems that Cisco is entering quite a crowded market – However its sheer marketing power and a complete product range might just do the trick.

But what makes it differ from current offerings by competitors (Google TV for example)?
1) It’s a complete platform (Media gateway AND a TV set-top box).
2) Unlike Google, Cisco is aiming for the ISPs – and maybe, unlike Google, they are more of a pipe rather than a potential threat to the Service/Content Providers themselves.

It’s pretty obvious that the key to the success of Videscape is the business benefits it will bring the service providers – Cisco talks about targeted ads, currently not available with today’s TV broadcasts.
By placing interactive web content next to TV streams and targeting specific audience Videoscape can help bring additional benefits to the current market.
As service providers relay on the “old” TV model and traditional media advertising - Videoscape success depends somehow on the decline of the traditional TV business, and that might take some time.

It seems  that the latest batch of Cisco products are driven by a long term strategy, as the increased traffic by video products can also boost networking products  - a major market for Cisco.
Increased adoption of video-centric consumer devices will boost online traffic, Cisco estimates that Global IP traffic will quadruple from 2009 to 2014 – and Video playing a major part in it.
Videoscape joins the lines of Cisco Umi and the recently acquired Flip cameras for yet an additional move into the home-video market.
While “reinventing TV” seems like a bold statement, things does look interesting for Cisco and the IPTV market as a whole.

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Triple Play in the Living Room – IPTV and social widgets

June 8, 2010 By IMTC 1 Comment

Cable providers are offering Triple Play (a combined package of TV, Broadband and IP telephony) for quite a while – However Triple Play was and is a marketing term - TV experience is yet to take advantage of the Triple Play model.
The Triple Play panel talks about possible solutions for Triple play (or even quadruple play) communication – between IPTV set-top, cellular phones and boxes and web applications. What would be the future of TV? How can technology bring value to the Triple Play model? Will industry standards advance the next generation of TV experience?

TV as enhanced communicator using RCS (A presentation by Jose M.Recio from Solaiemes)

Future of the living room (A presentation by Manuel Vexler from Huawei Technologies)

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NXTcomm and IMS

June 21, 2007 By Kfir Pravda Leave a Comment

By Tsahi Levent-Levi

This week I had a business trip. As part of my day job, I joined a panel discussing the IPTV experience at NXTcomm. While there, I had the time to walk around the show floor and see what companies are doing.

I can definitely say that this year, the main theme of NXTcomm is IPTV.

The second coolest acronym in the show was IMS.

First question out there, is what does IPTV has to do with IMS? Probably everything and nothing at the same time… But I’ll be leaving this one to a future post sometime.

What I really want to discuss here is still IMS.

Walking the floor and talking to companies in NXTcomm means you are meeting a lot of sales people from different companies. So IMS is what I do here, and I decided to go check what these people know of the IMS offering of their companies (you know – it’s not that easy).

Here’s a short roundup of the answers I got:

  • “It’s essentially SIP”
  • “We’re doing SIP, connecting it with Alcatel-Lucent’s thing, and we support IMS this way”
  • “We’re IMS-ready” (heard that one before)

So nobody really knows what IMS exactly is there and don’t know how to chew it. Hopefully, this will change with time… especially when they all have IMS written all over their booth…

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