Lifesize to offer Videoconferencing on the Cloud
LifeSize announced it’s new video collaboration platfrom – LifeSize Connections.
LifeSize connections will offer HD video calling with full connectivity to LifeSize video conferencing rooms, [Read more...]
Industry News Summary – LifeSize, Kinect Chat, Telepresence Guide & More
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
CTO Technology Session – Interoperability & UC Event
February 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
IMTC has scheduled its first ever CTO Technology Session on March 8-9, 2011 at the AT&T Offices in Middletown, New Jersey. This is a forward looking session that will provide you will analyst information of the key technologies, markets and growth rates for UC, Video and Collaboration solutions. It is also intended, that the group will look at how all these technologies come together with a seamless, interoperable solution.
Historically IMTC has been at the center of communication industry technology changes as noted by our work with H.323, H.264, SIP Parity, IMS, T120, H.320 and PSS, 3G-324M, and other profiles for standard telephony protocols. Communications industry is changing rapidly, and IMTC is helping its members to embrace the change.
In addition to Keynote Speakers from AT&T, Cisco and Polycom, below is a list of confirmed speakers:
Confirmed Speakers:
- Ronald Gruia, Principal Analyst ~ Frost & Sullivan
- Phil Karcher, Principal Analyst ~ Forrester Research
- Ginger Arnold, Manager, LMAC IT Infrastructure & Operations ~ Liberty Mutual
- Russ Cary, Senior IT Manager ~ SAS Global Communications Services
- Phil Edholm, VP Technology Strategy & Innovation ~ Avaya
- Casey King, CTO ~ LifeSize Communications
The IMTC is pleased to invite all IMTC member companies to this FREE event. We’ll strive to provide you with information and answers to the following questions:
1. What is the current state of the communications industry?
2. What defines video communications today (Skype, Google, Apple, H.323 and SIP) and how it plays into Unified Communications?
3. How do these various video and unified communication solutions come together into a seamless cloud or enterprise implementation?
4. Where should your company spend its resources in order to solve our customers key pain points?
5. What are the key enterprise customer use cases?
6. Where do telepresence solutions fit?
7. What do I need to know about SVC? How does it impact the above?
8. What are the key dependencies impeding interoperability between equipment, network and cloud services?
9. What is the role of devices such as tablets and smart phones in the unified communication mix and specifically with video communications and how do they affect enterprise implementations?
Together with our member companies, the IMTC would like to build a roadmap of key industry technology initiatives to be addressed in order for the seamless communications cloud to work.
This IMTC event is closed to only IMTC member companies. You can send as many representatives from a member company as you like, however we encourage you to invite senior product management and CTO types of individuals.
Venue:
AT&T Offices
200 Laurel Avenue South
Middletown, New Jersey 07748
Closest Airport:
EWR (Newark)
Nearby Hotels:
http://www.research.att.com/evergreen/about_us/middletown_hotels.html
Register Here:
http://www.regonline.com/imtcctoroundtable
Telepresence Interoperability Protocol Webinar
December 1, 2010 By 2 Comments
Update – TIP Webinar was a success – thanks for everyone who participated!
For more information about Telepresence Interoperability, check our TIP Page.
Earlier this year Cisco & Tandberg made headlines by demonstrating industry’s first immersive multi-screen Interoperability using Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP).
In September of this year, IMTC took ownership for TIP and has established a new Activity Group.
The TIP AG is responsible for the ongoing development of the TIP specification, TIP open source project management, and related development of interoperability tests between TIP adopters.
The TIP Activity Group is co-chaired by representatives from Polycom, AT&T & Cisco and has many members from companies in IMTC today.
IMTC will host a kick off Webinar on December 8, 2010 at 10 AM EST. This webinar will be a brief glimpse into the TIP Activity group and its vision. The webinar is free and open to all.
Please pre-register and access the TIP webinar from the following Webex link: https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/onstage/g.php?d=206589063&t=a
After the kickoff the Activity Group will have periodic, online meetings to steer the development of TIP. The group will also hold occasional face to face meetings as well as participate in multi-vendor test events, such as IMTC’s SuperOp.
TIP AG is an opportunity for your organization to participate in development of Telepresence Interoperability and leverage the benefits to offer Interoperable products and services.
For more information and inquiries, please contact us via mail at tip_infor@imtc.org
Membership to TIP AG is open only to IMTC members. To become a member of the IMTC and the TIP AG, please visit http://imtc.org/membership/join.asp
TIP Webinar Agenda December 8, 2010 10:00AM EST
- 10:00 -10:10 Minutes IMTC Intro (Anatoli Levin, President IMTC)
- 10:10 -10:30 Minutes TIP Overview (David Benham, Co-Chair TIP Activity Group)
- 10:30 -10:35 Call for Membership (Louise Olson & Sumit Kumar, Co-Chairs TIP Activity Group)
- 10:35-10:45 Q&A
IMTC TIP Introduction
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IMTC 2025 (Day2) Metadata for Companies and Users
July 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Metadata For companies and users, Panel at the IMTC 2025 Event:
Moderator – Andrea Basso, AT&T.
Alberto Messina, RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana)
Paolo Dettori, IBM
David Gibbon, AT&T
Watch It here (Playlist) or see the following parts:
Part A
Part B
Part C
Part D
Part E
SuperOp! 2007 – The Interoperability Testing Event
February 27, 2007 By 2 Comments
IMTC is holding its major test event – SuperOp!, in Jesie Italy in April 2007. The event, bringing together experts from across the globe, helps our member companies to roll out better products, after they were tested in real life environment, with competing companies. As a collaborative effort, it has a proven advantage to our members, in product readiness and shortened time to market. On top of rigorous testing effort, engineers from all around the world have the opportunity to network, discuss industry issues, and have some fun – organized trips, parties, and drinks are all part of the package.
The event is a must event for all companies and organizations delivering multimedia telecommunications products and services today, and provides unprecedented opportunities to interact and test new or next generation products and services.
IMTC and Aethra will be host to engineers from across the globe at the Federico II Hotel in Jesi, Italy from April 23 to April 27. IMTC AG leaders along with Aethra, Polycom, RADVISION, Tandberg, LifeSize and Ximpo have planned and will coordinate the event, along with the kind support of Regione Marche. Infrastructure equipment used for the event will be provided by Aethra, Polycom and Telecom Italia.
During the event, a live video link-up will take place with Andrew Davis, Senior Analyst and Managing Partner at Wainhouse Research, the independent market research firm that focuses on critical issues in the Unified Communications and rich media conferencing fields. The video link will take place during the Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit in Berlin, an event focusing on new solutions for unified collaborative communications.
SuperOp! 2007 is open for registration until March 21.
See you all in Jesie!
