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 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 With the accessibility of video conferencing and video chat at the desktop level, more and more business people are experimenting and gaining comfort with the technology. With this experience comes greater demand for ease of use, performance and interoperability. No longer are small-medium sized enterprises willing to let [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Vidtel, a cloud-based video conferencing service provider and CommX, a technologically savvy service provider of hosted telephone systems for businesses, today announced their distribution arrangement to market Vidtel’s hosted Meet Me Video Conferencing Service for multi-party conferencing to CommX’s national customer base of hosted voice business customers. Many [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing A report in July-August 2010 Channel Vision Magazine (circulated to nearly 20,000 channel partners and wholesale carriers selling voice, conferencing, IP and other network-based services), points to the growing demand for video conferencing outside of purpose-built room systems. In the magazine’s “Beyond the Conference Room” report, Martin Vilaboy [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC, asks Scott Wharton, CEO of Vidtel, about Vidtel’s cloud-based video conferencing service. Scott discusses the vision of the company to provide HD video conferencing for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs). The Vidtel service enables SMEs to have business-grade video conferencing without investing in video conferencing [...]
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 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 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 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 [...]