Polycom Brings ‘techno’ Styling to Telepresence Line
In keeping with a concerted effort to keep the competitive pressure on Cisco, Polycom announced this morning, as part of its InfoCom presence, the OTX, a new line of next generation telepresence...
View ArticlePolycom Hopes to Change Market Dynamics With High Profile
Polycom announced its support for H.264 High Profile on the RPX, TPX, ATX, its new OTX suite and on its RMX 4000 and RMX 2000 bridges. [[H.264]] is an international standard for video image...
View ArticleRADVISION Sets Sights on Small Business Market
The room-based video communications market is very much an inverse pyramid-shaped market. There are many endpoints in a large number of large organizations and very few endpoints in a small number of...
View ArticleHP Still Needs Enterprise Channel For Telepresence
With Cisco’s acquisition of TANDBERG, and its own acquisition of 3Com now complete, HP continues to set the stage for its competitive alignment vis-a-vis Cisco and announced at InfoCom its plan to OEM...
View ArticleCisco Cius
Clever branding aside, the Cisco Cius (pronounced SEE-us) telepresence pad announced by Cisco at its annual customer event promises to change the game in a couple of key areas. As with any new...
View ArticleAvaya’s New Tablet Positioned as a Video Device
Leveraging the coolness of a tablet computer, Avaya’s new Personal Video Conferencing Device is a 9″ Google Android tablet with 3 USBs, WiFi and Gb Ethernet. A front facing HD 720p video camera is...
View ArticleCisco and Home Telepresence
Well, the rumors are flying that Cisco’s statement that they’ll be debuting a major new consumer product in October means home telepresence at $500/unit. The pundits point out that the Cisco unit...
View ArticleAvistar Brings Video to Virtual PCs
The PC video conferencing company, Avistar provided a recent update on their latest announcement of support for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), the classic method for delivering PC-class of...
View ArticleCisco Doesn’t Get It
Cisco’s dropping the price of Umi by 20% and cutting the monthly service fee by 75% to $499 and $9.95/month. These price reductions came with an announcement of support for interoperability with Cisco...
View ArticleInnovations in Screen Technologies
This Austrian startup and university spinoff has a compelling technology sure to stretch the imagination of display and interaction engineers. Debuting in the US at the InfoComm show later this month,...
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