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 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 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 The video conferencing industry is undergoing dramatic changes and more than a few trends are at play. Here’s my top 10 list: 10. People are working from home more than ever (and still need to connect). 9. Companies continue to tighten travel budgets but expectations remain for high-quality [...]
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 Telepresence, video conferencing, video chat…many different terms are floating around and as the technology is moving from the boardroom and consumer environment into the massive mainstream, more people are asking questions about what the different categories mean. Here’s an overview of video conferencing categories. Overview Telepresence, video telepresence, [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing In the recent Video Conferencing Bucks Trend article, author P.J. Connelly identifies a vast untapped opportunity in the missing “middle ground” in the video conferencing market. Connelly points out the two predominant ends of the video conferencing scale: 1) telepresence, an enormous investment in facilities and hardware [that [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing At last, iPhone with both front and rear-facing video cameras… FaceTime, the iPhone video chat app, coupled with Skype’s Nokia N900 video chat client, means mobile video should finally be going mainstream. GigaOm’s new report predicts 11 billion video calls by 2015. Couldn’t agree more with Michael Roston’s [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Research Now released a recent survey of 1200 global business professionals on the topic of video conferencing. The study showed that most (79%) who use video conferencing are using consumer technologies such as Skype. The remainder (21%) use business-grade video conferencing systems from the likes of Tandberg, Cisco and Polycom. [...]