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Industry News Summary – LTE, Telepresence Interoperability & More

February 24, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

LG Revolution – A welcomed revolution
LG Revolution mobile phone to be the first mobile phone on Verizon to support VoLTE calls and LTE fast data transfer simultaneously - A major milestone toward the adoption of VoLTE phones. Verizon plans to support VoLTE in summer 2012, AT&T VoLTE support will only arrive at 2013.

But why VoLTE is that important?

* All IP communication will make Unified Communication with mobile devices much easier, mobile software will be able to use voice-calls more easily.
* As suggested by Tsahi Levent-Levi, IMTC IMS Co-Chair - Video Calling!

Telepresence Interoperability,
Hit the news with Polycom’s announcement about TIP support. There are however respected industry-professionals who believe that TIP isn’t the end to all Telepresence problems – and it isn’t, it’s an on-going effort.
Jessica Scarpati from “searchunifiedcommunications.com” wrote an in-depth article about the need for multi-stream telepresence standard for fully inter-operable Telepresence systems.

VIdyo Cloud
Vidyo keeps pushing forward their Video Routers, enabling low-cost high quality HDVC over non-managed networks – At mobile world congres Vidyo demonstrated its products over LTE connections and multiple mobile devices. The world (and Vidyo, I assume) now waits to see how successful the rumored iPad 2 with a front facing camera will turn up.

About the writer: Itzhak Wolkowicz

Filed Under: Industry News, Technology insight Tagged With: att, IPad, Mobile phone, Polycom, Telepresence, Verizon

IMTC SuperOp! 2010 – Interoperability. Evolving

July 8, 2010 By Anatoli Levine 2 Comments

And so another busy week became a history. IMTC SuperOp!, annual industry flagship interoperability testing event, brought together more than 50 engineers from 14 companies from around the world in a small town of Jesi in Italy, to continue enhancing interoperability of multimedia communications products.

SuperOp Testings

Of course you can not drive forward by constantly looking into a rearview mirror. Not looking in to that mirror at all is also dangerous ( especially for those who likes to drive fast

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Reflecting on the past, it is easy to see how much the level of interoperability improved and evolved. Decade ago, an hour long testing time slot was spent on properly registering with the server, and then may be making one successful simple call (or not). Video did look decent on a small screen ( with huge piece of hardware behind it to make it work).
The term “HD Video” was not even coined yes. And the term “telepresence” was unheard of, at least in the practical terms. SuperConnect, a culmination point of a week-long testing, which was connecting all devices passed the preliminary testing, would take more than half a day to achieve.

Fast forward 10 years. To cut the chase as anyone in the industry can figure out the particulars, the SuperConnect 2010, consisting of about 35 endpoints and servers, including a 3-screen telepresence system, took about 37 minutes from start to finish, with brilliant High Definition Video shining all over the room.

Inter-operable Indeed!

Can we now gleefully rest on laurels and declare “mission accomplished”? You guessed it right, the simple two letter answer is “no”. Video communication is only starting to become personal and getting into homes. Mobile video communication is still largely non-existent, and both personal and mobile communication being extremely clustered (read: uninteroperable) as the very least. We are starting (only now) to define telepresence standards which will later on lead to the interoperable implementations. The work just started in various IMTC Activity Groups on other important communication technologies, such as VoLTE and Live Streaming over HTTP. All in all, there is a lot of exciting work ahead of us on making the world better connected (and, therefore, smaller) place – so come on over and will see you all next year at IMTC SuperOp! 2011!

About the writer: Anatoli Levine

Filed Under: Events, IMTC News, Interoperability, Telepresence, VoLTE Tagged With: att, Cisco, High Definition Video, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC), Interoperability, Italy, Mobile phone, Multimedia, Polycom, shenick, super, SuperOp, SuperOp 2010, TANDBERG, Telepresence, Television

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)