Vidtel Video Conferencing Service Blog » Doug Mohney http://www.vidtel.com/community Cloud-based video conferencing service provider Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:54:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Enterprises Need a “Federation Service” to Share UC Applications http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtels-federation-service-for-uc/ http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtels-federation-service-for-uc/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:49:30 +0000 admin http://www.vidtel.com/community/?p=221

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 goodness without having to run down to the corporate IT staff and getting them to hand-craft secure connections through the firewall on a one-off basis.”  His view is that, “federation would provide a central hub and one-stop-shop for businesses to interoperate at the applications level without having to worry about security.”

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Businesses are considering how they can seamlessly integrate UC applications with their partners since Internet service providers (ISPs) do not offer such a service beyond the controlled VoIP framework.

Mohney explains that Avaya, Cisco, Polycom and other producers of HD voice, video, and UC products are now actively seeking third-party solutions to fill the SIP/federation gap to render their offerings more useful. After all, it’s Metcalfe’s law that the more connected communicating devices in a network, the more valuable the device. (What good is a sole video conferencing solution?)

To overcome this problem, Mohney points to Vidtel: “Vidtel’s laser-beam focus is enabling all those enterprise-based video conferencing devices to seamlessly talk to each other. Third-party interchange points are already working to SIP interconnect ISPs; in most respects, Fortune 500 companies operate as ISPs and “get it” a bit better when it comes to the value of SIP-interconnectivity.”

]]> http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtels-federation-service-for-uc/feed/ 0 Vidtel Recognized as Leader in Driving Interop for HD Video Conferencing Devices http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtel-recognized-as-leader-in-driving-interop-for-hd-video-conferencing-devices/ http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtel-recognized-as-leader-in-driving-interop-for-hd-video-conferencing-devices/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:49:44 +0000 admin http://www.vidtel.com/community/?p=214 by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing

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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 use them to videoconference (vconf) with their business partners (i.e. suppliers and customers), Avaya, Cisco, Polycom and others need some answers.

Vidtel (www.vidtel.com) is the most “on the radar” company when it comes to enterprise federation [interoperability]. CEO Scott Wharton has been leading the charge to build a video directory and other interoperable bits to allow video-endpoints to directly call each other over the internet without having to deal with the Grand Headache of corporate IT -  having to customize a peer-to-peer link.”

]]> http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtel-recognized-as-leader-in-driving-interop-for-hd-video-conferencing-devices/feed/ 0 Vidtel Wins Three Awards For Best Technology Products and Services of 2009 http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtel-wins-three-awards-for-best-technology-products-and-services-of-2009/ http://www.vidtel.com/community/vidtel-wins-three-awards-for-best-technology-products-and-services-of-2009/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:43:16 +0000 admin http://www.vidtel.com/community/?p=96 By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing

Trender Research announced the winners of its Best of 2009 Trender Awards on February 27, 2009. Vidtel is pleased to have won three categories:2009_award_logo2

* “Best Communications Product/Service”

* “Send it! Best Hoped-For Upcoming Product/Service in 2009″

* “Best Convergence Product/Service”

The Trender Awards honor gadgets and services that are novel and technologically advanced, improve people’s lives, and appeal to everyday folks. Nearly 100 tech products and services that Trender Research deemed had a good chance of becoming mainstream, had already been embraced by everyday consumers, or had what it takes to be adopted by customers in their intended target markets were reviewed.

Trender Research reports that it focused on products that hit “a sweet-spot of functionality, usability, and value” and looked at “what everyday folks might actually use”. Factors considered included:  “price and ease of installation/use, but also psychological and marketing factors such as understandability, branding, appeal to a wide demographic set, advertising, accessibility of channels and access to customer support”.

We are honored to receive these awards. For the “Best Communications Product/Service”, the finalists were PDT Minoru 3D Webcam, Vidtel and Vonage.  Skype was a contender and received Honorable Mention.  The top two contenders for the “Best Hoped-For Upcoming Product/Service in 2009″ were GigaTribe and Vidtel. The finalists for ‘Best Convergence Product/Service” finalists were Allio Lite HDTV/PC, Vidtel and WowWee “Rovio”.

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