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 Light Reading recently highlighted two obstacles to widespread video conferencing adoption: the interconnection of multiple videoconferencing providers and the traversal of enterprise firewalls, two of Vidtel’s core competencies. The industry’s largest video conferencing vendors, such as LifeSize Communications, are currently advocating HD video conferencing services that can connect [...]
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 [...]