GUEST POST by Arron Brown
Twenty years ago video conferencing was something seen on television shows and the James Bond type movies, something out of the science fiction future. Today, although not common the technology is readily and easily available. This article will explain some of the popular usages of video conferencing equipment.
PRESS RELEASE: Ramsey, NJ (September 22, 2010) – High Speed Video (HSV), the only provider of software based enterprise-grade video communications and desktop-telepresence as an end-to-end managed service, announced today that it has expanded its platform to support advanced collaboration features in HSV ClearVision™ desktop video communications software.
ClearVision is designed to work with [...]
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 conferencing [...]
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 a [...]
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 company’s [...]
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 lakh [...]
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 Center [...]
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 to [...]
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 signed [...]
Nokia Siemens Networks is looking to revolutionise the mobile network with is Liquid Radio architecture, which not only promises to re-architect today’s base station infrastructure, but also to ultimately bridge the gap between highly specialise (and expensive) telecoms equipment and commoditise (cost competitive) computer components. Green Telecom Live talks to Mike Murphy, head of Technology [...]
Interview with Telenor Connexion: Inside the world of M2M
Telenor Connexion, the unit of the Telenor Group focused on the machine-to-machine market, has been developing and deploying M2M applications for customers for the past decade. Green Telecom Live speaks with Gwenn Larsson, head of marketing at Telenor Connexion, about what makes M2M different from the rest of the mobile industry and the kinds of [...]
Verne Global outlines Iceland data centre plans
Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality.
Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data centre [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 2: Cisco’s Unified Computing
Cisco this month unveiled what some company executives dubbed one of the biggest announcements for the network equipment maker – ever. With the announcement of its Unified Computing, Cisco officially enters the computing space, although not quite as previous speculation in the industry had outlined. Instead of just producing its own blade server, Cisco unveiled [...]
Next gen data centre architecture Part 1: Juniper’s single switching fabric
In the past couple of weeks, cloud computing has really taken off, with both service providers, server makers, and switching vendors all making big announcements on service deployments and new gear designed for cloud operating environments.
Specifically, both Juniper and Cisco made significant announcements in their vision of a next generation data centre environment that can [...]