In the previous post, I shared my expectations as to what I think will be (or will not be) dominating the CES 2012. Now, on my way from CES (literally – I’m typing this on the plane using the device which I do consider revolutionary – iPad, as it started it all), I’m trying to summarize the impressions of grueling two days (note to self – next time bring an odometer – really curious how many miles we walked). [Read more...]
CES2012 – Evolution, Not Revolution
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
IMTC VoLTE Webinar Recording
December 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The IMTC VoLTE Webinar was a great success with many viewers, questions and great presentations.
The Webinar video and presentation is now online:
IMTC VoLTE Webinar – Voice over LTE: Industry, Standardization and Market Realities and Perspectives
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Industry News Summary – LTE tablets, Obsolete Broadband Technologies, Mobile & Apple
July 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
LTE Tablets – it just makes sense
Dan Jones from LightReadingMobile asks – Where are the LTE Tablets?
Dan summarize the expected models to hit the market soon, and theorize about the LTE iPad.
Lifespan of broadband technologies
A&T CEO caught a lot of attention when he said that “DSL is obsolete”. AT&T is one of the major DSL providers and for many US citizens living in rural areas DSL is the only broadband technology available.
AT&T Claims however that the comment was an answer to a question about state regulation and that the lifespan of a broadband technology went down from 10-15 years to about 5 years.
Examples?
3G was introduced around 2006, LTE began gaining momentum this year.
Docsis 2.0 was released in 2001 and Docsis 3.0 in 2006.
Samsung to sell 300 million phones in 2011
Samsung is fighting for the 2nd place in the mobile phone market, and unlike Nokia (that sold 461 million phones in 2010) – it’s major focus is on smart-phones. If they reach their expected number of 60 million smart-phones, they’ll pass Nokia smartphone sales. More on samsung plans and Samsung -vs- Apple -vs- Nokia at Gigaom.
Apple’s iMessage – Will it really change anything?
Rumor says that carriers weren’t informed of one of the latest updates in iOS (the iPhone) announced a month ago – the iMessage.
iMessage allow sending free messages, photos and files between all iDevices, thus posing a risk to traditional messaging with SMS.
SMS devotees will argue about it’s reliability.
Analysts might compare it to BlackBarryMessanger system (BBM) that existed for years and haven’t ‘killed’ SMS yet.
Will it kill SMS? Share your view by leaving a comment down below.
IMTC SuperOP! 2011 – VoLTE, TIP, QoE & SVC
April 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
- VoLTE Testings, will be conducted during the IMTC SuperOP! event that will take place in Kona, Hawaii, during the week of May 16th-20th, 2011. During the event, tests will be focused on terminals and core network. This makes the IMTC SuperOp! 2011 testing event unique, and one of the few places to actually accomplish this level of engineer to engineer interoperability testing. IMTC is inviting all terminal companies to participate including ST-Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, Sharp, LG, RIM and others, as well as Operators with interest in VoLTE. Contact Anatoli Levin (alevine@radvision.com) orPaul Ritchie (pritchie@inventures.com) for additional details.
- Open TIP Testing at SuperOp – Telepresence Interoperability Protocol testing will be a key focus during the SuperOP! 2011 event.
IMTC is inviting all interested parties, both members and non-members alike, to participate in this event’s engineering focused testing.
For more information about TIP testing at SuperOP! Event, press here (pdf). - IMTC H264 SVC & QoE Workshop - IMTC will be holding a SVC & QoE Workshop during our SuperOp!, May 16-20. This is an open call to all IMTC members to participate, AND, submit proposals for speaker slots and presentations. This workshop, organized as part of IMTC SuperOp! 2011, is intended to bring together experts in the field to discuss what SVC means to the videoconferencing and UC industries, what is missing in terms of standards support, and what steps should the industry take to ensure interoperability. If you would like a time-slot on the agenda, Speaker proposals should be sent to our IMTC Service desk at Help@IMTC.org by April 4, 2011, and include the speaker’s name, affiliation, and presentation title.
Industry News Summary – Cisco, Avaya, Mobile Data-plans and more
September 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
How can Cisco Compete in the New Digital Living Room?
This is the question Michael Wolf from GIGAOM asks, While we asked a similar question yesterday – “Can Cisco introduce Telepresence technology to the masses?”. One thing is easy to agree upon – The goal is the living room. While corporate users are great, a long term for an industry giant like Cisco is also the average Joe – that’s why Cisco purchased Pure Digital Technologies (A digital camera maker with a line of easy to use consumer camcorders called Flip).
Cisco Cius - HD Video-Conferencing Tablet
Avaya Desktop Video Device to be offered as a part of Avaya Flare platform
Avaya answer to Cisco Cius was announced yesterday. the Avaya Desktop Video Device is very similar to the Cius – It’s a 11.6 inch screen HD tablet device with 720P video camera, HD quality voice and have 3G/4G and Wifi support. Like Cisco, avaya will offer an unified communication infrastructure and the Avaya Desktop Video Device will only be a part of that ecosystem. As with Cisco case – We think that Interoperability will be the key for success.
Verizon offers media storage service – Will the users backup their phones to the cloud?
Verizon now offers a 2.99$ a month media storage service that allows to backup not only text and contacts but also photos and music. Presumably, this will be used in the future to allow the user to stream his media to other devices such as TVs.Its still remains to be seen if users will trust the cloud with their purchased multimedia.
Charge more for less? Or maybe, charge nothing at all?
While mobile operators struggle to supply adequate bandwidth to their clients, and some tries to to back-down from unlimited data plans – Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, urges mobile operators to offer free data access to their clients. In his view, people in developing countries needs Internet access and offering very small, free or at least cheap bandwidth should still be helpful.
As many functions like text communications can be done via the web with very low bandwidth requirements – It could be a good alternative to the very expensive SMS communications.
Wireless Charging standard – Qi (Pronnounced as “chee”) being accepted by multiple companies
Energizer to produce an inductive Qi charger, and so is Sanyo, which will design batteries with builtin Qi capability. The Qi standard for wireless charging interoperability was recently launched by the Wireless Power Consortium an organization with members from Nokia, Phillips, RIM, Sanyo, TI and National Semiconductor.
Express Computer Online wrote a great article about Telepresence in India
India is an emerging market for Telepresence systems - Cisco, Lifesize and Polycom representatives talked about the Telepresence market, their clients and ROI.
Xconnect Partners with Polycom, Broadsoft and Dialogic to Increase HD voice Adoption.
HD voice is getting popular in UK with an iniative by Xconnect, already joined from UK service providers - Simwood, SureVoIP and thevoicefactory.
In another note -
Slides from “Realizing “FaceTime” on Android Devices” webinar by Radvision, are now Online at Slideshare.net.
