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Industry News Summary – Vidyo, LightSquared, Telepresence Robots

October 3, 2011 By IMTC Leave a Comment

Vidyo Rises $22.5 Million in Series D Funding Round
Video has raised a $22.5 million in a Series D round led by QuestMark Partners. The funds will be used to expand sales and marketing activities and help create the next generation video-conferencing equipement.
Source: TMCNET.

LightSquared Expect Over 100 Costumers For It’s Wholesale Network
“We expect that number could be close to a hundred,” CEO Sanjiv Ahuja says in an interview for C-SPAN’s The Communicators series. He didn’t say how long LightSquared might take to reach that number.”  Source: Lightreading.com

SMBs Switch to VoIP as a cheap alternative
The majority of participants in recent 8×8 customers survey reveals that more than half of the service usersw are “more concerned” about business expenses in August 2011 than they were in August 2010. More at http://www.fierceenterprisecommunications.com/story/survey-smbs-see-growth-ahead-focus-cutting-costs/2011-09-28

Panasonic reveals Telepresence Robot
What was once considered a niche now is mainstream – Telepresence Robots are here and are here to stay.
Panasonic recently revealed it’s healthcare assistance providing not only remote assistance but also specific roles like hair-washing:
Source: http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2011/09/panasonic_rolls_out_telepresen

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Industry News Summary – Telepresence, Vidyo, LTE

September 18, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

Telepresence Basics at NAB2011
Theo Economides, a consultant at Greenline Emeritus Consulting did a wonderful lecture about the basics of Telepresence. Theo talks about the fundamentals of the Telepresence experience, hardware and the industry. You can see it as a 3 part Youtube video in the following links:
* Part 1
* Part 2
* Part 3

Frost & Sullivan Honors Vidyo with Global 2011 Product Differentiation Excellence Award for Videoconferencing Infrastructure Systems
Vidyo received the  Frost & Sullivan Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Videoconferencing. Frost & Sullivan’s analysis indicates that “Vidyo’s disruptive platform and APIs will expand the market”. I already mentioned that Vidyo is on the right track and as a little example – last week (12-17/09/2011) Vidyo was mentioned over the web almost 273 times, which is more than the term “cisco+telepresence” – 255 times. (data by Viralheat.com).

Source: MarketWatch

AT&T Launched its LTE network today
AT&T Will offer service to up to 15 cities until the end of this year.
Source: AT&T.

Consumers love videoconferencing – but only if it’s free!
Analyst survey shows that interest in video-conferencing drops dramatically when it is priced for more than 5 dollars a month.
Source: fierceenterprisecommunications.com

LTE Rollouts at 3G4G Blog
So how many LTE networks are there? and who was first?
Check the data at 3G4G Blog.

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Industry News Summary – Patent Wars, Vidyo, UCIF and Verizon LTE

August 18, 2011 By IMTC Leave a Comment

Patents Wars At The Mobile Space
News of Google purchases of Motorola is probably known to you already.
Google acquired Motorola for 12.5 Billion USD cash deal, most likely as a way to protect Android from the recent ‘Patent Wars’ from Apple and Microsoft.  Reuters supply a nice overview of the patent lawsuits in the following diagram by Reuters. A summary of the ‘Patent Wars’ situation and possible outcome is available at Zahid Ghadialy post at 3G4G: Click Here to see his post. [Read more...]

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Industry News Summary – MetroPCS, LTE, Polycom, Vidyo

August 3, 2011 By Itzhak Wolkowicz Leave a Comment

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 – Vidyo, LTE, LightRadio

June 21, 2011 By IMTC Leave a Comment

Vidyo to offer white-label video chat application
Vidyo, a long-time member of IMTC and advocate of Scalable Video Coding – announced an application portal program that would enable service providers to create white-label video chat applications using the companies proprietary technology (Vidyo already power the technology behind Google’s video chat). Just recently, Vidyo announced it’s low cost multi-screen Telepresence solution -

Read more at GigaOM: http://gigaom.com/video/vidyo-video-chat-app-exchange/

VoLTE Introduction
Alotough I doubt any of our readers don’t know what VoLTE is – In case I’m wrong, the following article by Maisie Ramsay from WirelessWeek is highly recommended. The article summaries VoLTE and it’s current industry status.

Read more at WirelessWeek: http://wirelessweek.com/Articles/2011/06/Technology-VoLTE-Carriers-Beyond-Voice-LTE/

Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio – An ultra small cellular base station
Telco 2.0 tells us about Alcatel-lucent latest innovation in the cellular radio field – the LightRadio 6×6 inch base station.
This small box is expected to revolutionize mobile network coverage and power requirements.


Read More at Telco2:  http://www.telco2.net/blog/2011/06/mobile_broadband_smart_small_n.html

LightSquared: Solved GPS interference issues, Network go as planned
LightSquared, the satellite based wholesale LTE network caused major concern to GPS connectivity in it’s initial tests, causing interference in GPS in up to 22 miles distance from LightSquared cell towers. Recently the company announced it’s solved it’s interference issues by reducing the towers power output by 50% and retune it’s frequencies a bit further away from the GPS channel.

Read more at IntoMobile: http://www.intomobile.com/2011/06/20/lightsquared-says-they-found-way-solve-gps-interference-lte-network-go-up-planned/

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