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Industry News Summary – VoLTE, LTE & Polycom Telepresence

April 29, 2011 By IMTC Leave a Comment

VoLTE, VoIP and Carriers
Carl Ford from Crossfire Media writes about VoLTE in Net Neutrality and business perspectives. Head to TMCnet for the article.

(Yet another) VoLTE webinar – May 11, 2011
The following webinar by Meik Kottkamp from Rohde & Schwarz will explain VoLTE basics and testing practices – Head to EEtimes for registration. Radvision VoLTE webinar will be held in May 5, 2011, details can be found here.

Huawei files lawsuits against ZTE
Huawei filed patent-infringement lawsuits against ZTE over patents related to LTE data card and infringement of Huawei’s trademark. Huawei claims ZTE used Huawei trademarks in some of it’s LTE data cards. Fore more info, check FirceWireless article. [Read more...]

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Concerts of the 21th Century – Via Telepresence?

April 20, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

Broadcasting music performances over video-conferencing equipment isn’t new – Polycom, Cisco, DVE has been experimenting with it for years. It is only recently that Telepresence became mature enough for concert streaming. The key challenge with Telepresence concerts isn’t a technology one, it’s entirely a business issue.  Telepresence concerts must offer something new in order to attract artists and record labels. Among the key points in favor of Telepresence concerts are: [Read more...]

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SuperOP 2011 Event & TIP

March 6, 2011 By IMTC Leave a Comment

IMTC SuperOp! 2011, premier annual Interoperability Testing event, will take place in Kona, Hawaii, during the week of May 16-20.
During the event, IMTC members will get together to test various IP Video communications systems and technologies ranging from SIP and H.323 to VoLTE and IMS. During this event, Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) implementations will be tested for the first time ever.

Registration is open at http://www.regonline.com/superopkona

IMTC official announcement can be found here (PDF).

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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.

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Polycom & TIP

February 23, 2011 By IMTC 1 Comment

A few days ago, Polycom announced support for the Cisco/IMTC - Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) standard.
The Telepresence Interoperability Protocol was developed by Cisco to allow multi-screen interoperability between Telepresence systems from different vendors. The protocol was transferred to IMTC for on-going development and is offered in a royalty-free license.

The announcement was promoted in PR channels of both Polycom and Cisco, a rather unique sight:


David Benham, IMTC TIP Activity Group Co-Chair responded to the announcement, indicating the importance of the protocol to the industry:
“We are pleased to hear that Polycom is joining other companies in adopting the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP), the only open, multi-screen interoperability protocol available today.   In mid 2010, Cisco transferred ownership of TIP to IMTC so it can provide stewardship of the protocol, offer TIP royalty-free to anyone as well as manage the TIP open source project.   We look forward to Polycom implementing TIP, which helps improve overall market acceptance of Telepresence systems and services.”

TIP support will allow Polycom Telepresence equipment to participate in a HD video-conference with Cisco products. Polycom UC Intelligent Core MCU will support Cisco’s TIP from Q2 2011.
Polycom isn’t the first Company outside Cisco to support TIP – The protocol is licensed by many companies including Radvision, LifeSize (Logitech) and Tandberg (now a part of Cisco).

For more info about TIP, check our TIP Page.

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