Industry News Summary – Mobile Video, Data and more

Only 18% of online video companies use adaptive bit rate technologies
Skyfire claims that mobile video isn’t pushed to its full potential because of slow adaptation of ABR technologies by the online video companies. less than 18% of online video companies use ABR, while in some platforms such as Android – none of the companies included in the survey used ABR. Read more at: Intomobile.

Should Avaya buy Radvision or Vidyo?
Andy Abramson, from VoIP Watch believes that there are good reason to buy either of them, in order for Avaya to stay competitive with Cisco and Polycom. Read more at VoIP Watch.

NTT DoCoMo predicts 48$ increase in data revenues for the next 4 years
The first provider to earn more money out of data instead of voice, now expects data revenues to reach 1.83 trillion yen ($22 billion) to the end of March 2012, rising to JPY 2.7 trillion ($32 billion) by FY2015, which ends in March 2016. Read more at TotalTele

Microsoft LYNC vs Older SIP Communicator Data Consumption.
The new mobile LYNC client shows some great data consumption numbers, compared to older technologies:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2011/12/analyzing-and-comparing-microsoft-lync.html

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Industry News Summary – AT&T, FCC, Lightsquared & Polycom

AT&T VP of U-verse & Video Products Interview
FirceTelecom posted an interview with Jeff Weber, VP of U-verse and video products at AT&T.
In the interview Jeff explains why AT&T’s offering for triple service (IPTV, Internet and Voice) proved to be highly successful – a great read in my humble opinion: [Read more...]

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Industry News Summary – MetroPCS, LTE, Polycom, Vidyo

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

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Industry News Summary – LifeSize, Kinect Chat, Telepresence Guide & More

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...]

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IMTC SuperOP! Updates – H264 SVC Charter Meeting & TIP Webinar

  • SuperOP! 2011 event will host an ad-hoc meeting for forming a SVC Activity Group:

    SVC has been gaining considerable interest in the video communications industry, with most companies having announced support for it in current or future products. At the same time, there is on-going standardization activity in SVC and related subjects in UCIF as well as the IETF. SVC is currently covered by two standards, the H.264 coding specification and the IETF RTP payload format for SVC (to become RFC 6190). Beyond the SDP offer/answer parameters defined in the payload format, however, it is becoming apparent that the architectural changes made possible by scalable (including simulcast) coding require corresponding signalling support. This meeting will explore these issues and discuss the possibility of creating an SVC AG within IMTC’s Requirements Group to address these new architectures.”
    For more information about SVC & IMTC, please contact: Anatoli Levine (alevine@radvision.com) or Alex Eleftheriadis (alex@vidyo.com).

 

  • IMTC TIP Webinar Since last October IMTC has taken the ownership of TIP (Telepresence Interoperability Protocol). TIP allows immersive multi-screen interoperability across multi-vendor Telepresence systems and is leading Telepresence Interoperability protocol available today in Industry. TIP is now developed IMTC TIP activity group with participation from major Telepresence Vendors. IMTC is hosting a special TIP Webinar at IMTC SuperOp! on May 18th 3PM- 5PM EST. The Webinar will focus on Technical Overview of TIP Protocol and adoption use cases presented by co-chairs of TIP Activity group from AT&T, Cisco and Polycom. Access to TIP Webinar events is available to all IMTC member companies, and non-member companies interested in adopting TIP for their product and services.Event Access Details:Date & Time – May 18th 3PM- 5PM EST
    Conference Bridge Details:
    To connect from your desktop, go to http://www.tryscopia.com/scopia?ID=51876&autojoin
    For other options (including connecting with presentation only or watching the webcast), go to http://www.tryscopia.com/scopia?ID=51876
    We recommend you install the desktop client beforehand. To install the client, go to http://www.tryscopia.com/scopia?client
    H.323 dial-in:
    To connect from a video-conferencing device, dial 65.51.241.196
    Phone dial-in:
    To connect from a phone, please dial 201-773-7100 and enter 51876

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