By Snorre Kjesbu Over the past decade, I’ve worked on a number of different projects aimed at improving communications using video conferencing and telepresence. In that time, I’ve been fortunate to be involved with key innovations at first Tandberg then Cisco that have had great impact on video collaboration: Forging life-like experience with immersive telepresence […]
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Cisco is basically hiding this white paper, but we found it — and it’s a great read. Basically, it goes over the basics about how the cloud works. As our market starts seeing more cloud applications (e.g., VTC systems that are cloud-based), as well as content sending (e.g., digital signage delivery) via the cloud, this […]
Revolabs today announced that the Revolabs FLX – a wireless VoIP conference phone – has successfully completed interoperability testing with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, version 8.6. Already a solution developer within the Cisco TelePresence technology category with the HD Single/Dual Channel wireless microphone systems, the company now joins the collaboration category with the FLX. The Cisco Developer Network unites Cisco with third-party […]
eWeek reported this week that Cisco will be the first to break the 1-Gigabit barrier on Wi-Fi networks when it introduces an 802.11ac access point in 2013. Cisco says it will introduce an 802.11ac module in the first half of next year that can plug into an existing Cisco Aironet 3600 access point. 802.11ac is […]
IDC estimates the unified communications market (videoconferencing is one component), to grow to $44 billion by 2015. Microsoft’s Lync has enjoyed very little serious competition until this point. But now Cisco has released Jabber, a new crossplatform communications and messaging application designed to compete directly with Microsoft’s Lync. Working with all client devices and operating […]
Last summer Polycom bought HP’s video and telepresence business, becoming the exclusive videoconferencing supplier for HP’s reseller and integrator businesses. Now they will launch the first integrated, all-in-one solution bundle to come from the two vendors that’s intended to be sold through the channel. There will also be more bundles in the future. Hewlett Packard […]
No press conference this time, no big announcement. Cisco just shuts off sales of its consumer videoconferencing system, umi. Call it tiptoeing away from an ill-fated business debacle. Call it slinking away from another disaster for the once-infallible Cisco who thought it could easily crossover into consumer marketing. Introduced in Oct. 2010, umi offered full […]
Cisco launches its Cius tablet (pronounced “SeeUs”) for business, a 7” touch screen tablet computer running on the Android operating system. Yes, it’s definitely going to be compared to the iPad. But this Cisco product is all about business and Cius comes in two form factors: tablet and a desktop dock — a phone-like format. […]
Cisco unveils a new “Home Energy Management System” that includes a 7” touch screen computer — what they say is their “first consumer gadget for the smart grid.” The Cisco Home Energy Controller will allow users to monitor their energy use device-by-device, react to changes in energy prices and automate energy use. For example, if […]
Best New Video Product: Cisco Show and Share. Cisco’s Show and Share is the best competitive product we’ve seen that could potentially unseat the market leader, the Sonic Foundry MediaSite, in video storage and serving on-demand content.
The European Commission approved the $3.4 billion acquisition, and the U.S. Department of Justice won’t challenge it: Cisco’s acquisition of Tandberg will go through and change the video conferencing landscape forever. But as with any political victory, there’s wheeling-and-dealing that pays the price for the deal. In this case, to win EC blessing, Cisco agreed […]
Bob Snyder Editor, rAVe Europe In a global recession, what do the cash rich companies do? They go shopping! IT companies are looking for acquisitions, as organic growth is difficult given the poor economy. And valuations are very cheap now. That’s why IBM ($13 billion in cash) is buying Sun for $6.5 Billion. IBM wants […]
A humongous company entering an existing market tends to validate it, and that’s what Cisco will do for high definition video conferencing with the company’s announcement of its new TelePresence product. Sure, companies such as PolyVision, Polycom, TANDBERG, ClearOne, VTEL and Sony slogged through this market for years before technology caught up with what they […]
By Gary Kayye, CTS When I saw the Cisco’s version of HD videoconferencing, called Cisco TelePresence, I was extremely impressed, as I have been with all the HD-based VTC systems. But, when I started to ask a question of Cisco, I was stopped mid-sentence and told this was, “not videoconferencing; that’s a bad word with […]
ClearOne has a new way for you to add high-quality full-duplex speaker phones to Cisco handsets. The new Chat 150 for Cisco lets users continue to use the functionality built into the handsets, including access to company directory, voicemail, audio bridge functions, call transfer, etc., but adds conferencing quality and features. Users initiate these functions […]
By Bob Snyder If you had attended the annual CeBIT SUMMIT, you might have predicted this: Cisco will acquire WebEx, provider of Web conferencing services to SMEs, for $3.2 billion. That confirms that the biggest buzz in conferencing is exactly what Gartner’s Peter Sondergaard, in his speech at the CeBIT Summit, called “the consumerization of […]
