by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing ~ If you thought 2011 was the year of mobility, get ready for 2012. IDC predicts more than 1.2 billion people will be mobile workers by the end of the year. And if “bring your own device” (BYOD) was buzzworthy last year, brace yourself for this year. Already [...]
by Scott Wharton, CEO, Vidtel ~ The NY Times featured an article profiling a security expert hacking into video conferencing systems around the globe at some of the largest companies, causing quite a stir. For us, this was a long time coming. For many years, we’ve questioned the prevailing method for deploying video conferencing gear. [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing ~ Patients in remote areas are often unable to easily reach medical specialists, relying instead on primary care physicians for treatment. What happens when video conferencing brings patients to specialists? A staggering 98% of dermatology video consultations in a University of California study of 1500 patients resulted in [...]
by Scott Wharton, CEO of Vidtel ~ Polycom launched its new cloud offering, RealPresence Cloud, yesterday with great fanfare. This is significant as Polycom became the last of the 3 major video conferencing vendors to throw their full support behind a cloud offering of their own. The RealPresence Cloud offer provides Polycom-based services without the [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing ~ Just back from CES this year. I spent time in meetings rather than on the floor but the buzz seems be, well, no buzz…CES often generates buzz about the latest and greatest TVs. This year, the best I heard was Samsung’s “video conferencing” on smart TVs.
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing ~Lately my inbox has been bulging with congratulations on hiring industry veteran Brian Coulter as VP of Sales. Brian brings quite a unique blend of service provider, video conferencing, telecom, big company, startup and channel sales experience to us. He’s already hitting the ground running with our channel [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Just recently a research study reported that 50% of all mobile bandwidth is consumed by a measly 1% of mobile users, evidently with unlimited or very generous mobile data plans. Wireless operators will need to step their game as more bandwidth consumption from mobile applications will be hitting [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing For too long, the small-medium enterprise (SME) market has effectively been squeezed out of business video conferencing with solutions that are either too expensive or too low in quality. Vidtel’s cloud video conferencing service is designed to change all that. To reach our target market, we are linking [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Small-medium enterprises are beginning to demand a more affordable approach to enterprise-level video conferencing, one that doesn’t require a lot of upfront expense and IT overhead. Resellers focusing on meeting the managed services, audio-visual communications and VoIP needs of their customers are looking around for ways to meet [...]