PRESS RELEASE: SINGAPORE, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ — The Asia-Pacific video conferencing endpoints market is expected to see strong growth with revenues rising at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 13.6 percent till 2016 reaching nearly US$820 million. Unit shipments meanwhile are predicted to grow at a CAGR of 16.3 percent (2009-2016). “Spending on video [...]

by David Stanton, VP, Enterprise Sales at Cable&Wireless Worldwide As organisations are realising the efficiency and productivity benefits of remote working practices and adapting to increasingly dynamic working environments, the demand for flexible, responsive, secure networks is on the rise. In fact, remote working is now a key part of any converged networking solution. But [...]

Polycom announced an expanded global agreement where Polycom’s complete portfolio of voice and video conferencing technologies, including joint go-to-market activity and future technology development, will be sold by HP. Under the expanded agreement, Polycom video and voice solutions for unified communications and stand-alone operation will be sold and delivered through HP as part of the [...]

Reliance Communications has teamed up with Polycom to bring wireless, high resolution video conferencing to India for a starting pricing of less than US$5,000. The new service will bundle the Polycom QDX 6000 system with a VPN connection from Reliance Netconnect Broadband + wireless broadband data card. The service will cost an initial Rs 2 [...]

Before I go on and lament the state of green telecoms adoption, and why the telecoms and ICT industries need to step up to the plate when it comes to the fight against climate change, I’d like to clarify that I support fully the development and deployment of green telecoms and green IT. As Ericsson’s [...]

Tata Communications aims to add another 25 public Telepresence rooms this year. The new rooms will bring the total number of public Telepresence rooms operated by Tata to 38 by year end. As part of its global partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Tata recently launched two new Telepresence rooms at the W Chicago City [...]

Less than a week after Cisco released its Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) to the industry, TANDBERG, who is being acquired by Cisco, showed off interoperability between its telepresence systems and those of Cisco. The successful demonstration was conducted between TANDBERG Telepresence and the Cisco CTS 3000. According to TANDBERG, Cisco TelePresence solutions will be added [...]

Cisco Systems has released what it calls the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) that will allow inter-company telepresence sessions. The company has released the protocol into the ‘public domain’ and is offering it on a royalty-free licensing basis to all industry participants. According to Cisco, LifeSize, TANDBERG (currently being brought by Cisco), and RADVISION have already [...]

BT Conferencing, a long standing backer of Cisco’s Telepresence platform, has launched a fully managed automated service for TANDBERG solutions called, BT One Source for TANDBERG. According to BT Conferencing, One Source now combines TANDBERG’s telepresence and video conferencing solutions with its management services. The solution delivers planning, design and implementation services such as BT’s [...]

Juniper Networks and Polycom has announced an alliance focused on improving the reliability, cost-effectiveness and quality of the customers experience for telepresence (with a small ‘t’) and video conferencing services. The two companies don’t say it in so many words, but obviously have some synergies in such a tie up, since both count Cisco as [...]