By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing In TMCnet’s VoIP Quality Feature, industry expert Doug Mohney outlines the troubles facing end-to-end SIP transport and the need for what he terms a ” federation service to link enterprises, enabling them to share UC applications, IM directly and securely, and do all that HD voice and video [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing With the economic recession universally decimating IT departments, demand is on the upswing for managed solutions and outsourced IT functions. Coupled with the trend toward an expansion of unified communications (UC) deployments and the attendant increase in integration challenges, outsourced solutions like Vidtel’s cloud-based hosted video conferencing [...]
By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Those of us in the video conferencing industry have been anticipating a Polycom reaction to Cisco’s fall 2009 announcement of its acquisition of Tandberg, the leading video conferencing equipment supplier. Today we await no longer. Tensions have been on the rise with the severance of the Cisco-HP reseller [...]
By Mariette J. Wharton, VP of Marketing IP5280 is one of the industry’s best in driving hosted voice, evidenced by their distinctive focus on the value of applications to their SME customers. Their proven capabilities in successfully conveying the value of a hosted application makes them an ideal partner for us A critical problem faces [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing International Data Corporation (IDC) announces that it expects enterprise adoption of videoconferencing to blossom over the next few years. Revenues for videoconferencing equipment are anticipated to explode from $1.9 billion in 2009 to more than $8.7 billion in 2014. Vidtel addresses one of the principal elements that will [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing HD Voice News profiles Vidtel, an innovative video conferencing service provider, as leading the charge for HD video conferencing device interoperability. Industry expert Doug Mohney writes: “…With the trending-upward use of HD voice in the VoIP environment and enterprises looking at their big-bucks telepresence systems and wanting to [...]
By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Heavy Reading, providing authoritative analysis of the telecom industry, identifies Vidtel, an innovative video conferencing service provider, as one of 50 innovative VoIP services and companies likely to significantly disrupt the telecom market. The innovative VoIP providers profiled are: VoIP providers, Heavy Reading, 8×8 Inc., BroadSoft, CallSpark, Cbeyond, [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing The word on the street (surmised from the software development kit) is that Apple has developed API support for the iPad to test if your iPad has a Front Facing Camera – exactly what’s been missing for video chat. Rumor has it “accept” and “decline” icons for video [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing For this year’s VoiceCon, the leading enterprise communications and video conferencing event, Vidtel CEO Scott Wharton has been selected to lead the discussion panels on choosing the right video device, extending video across the enterprise boundary and the challenges in a mass deployment of video endpoints in an [...]
By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing In a business environment, most people are looking for not only business-grade video and audio but more than 2-way video conferencing. Up until now, companies would have to buy an expensive video conferencing bridge and then risk exposing bridge credentials to third parties if they wanted to include [...]