May 17th, 2010
Four weeks ago we saw the serious consequences flight restrictions can have on how we conduct business and today the cloud came again!
We know professional video enabled organizations have minimized the need for travelling to conduct internal meetings.
But what about all the external meetings?
How do you provide high quality Telepresence experience from your company to any system, anywhere on any network?
The Norwegian pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai has taken counter measures and is utilizing Telepresence video conferencing as an integrated part of the exhibition.
TANDBERG’s Telepresence systems are connected to Media Network Services (MNS) global video conferencing network enabling users to reach any video conferencing system in the world with the network quality needed for a high quality Telepresence experience. Should visitors, sponsors or key speakers get delayed or be unable to attend due to the flight restrictions, they will be able to attend via Telepresence video conference from anywhere in the world, as long as they have Telepresence system with internet access.
Related: TANDBERG and Media Network Services (MNS) announced official suppliers to the Norwegian Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai
Tags: ash cloud, tandberg, Telepresence, video conferencing
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October 11th, 2009
There is no no doubt that a great part of the ROI from VC comes from avoiding international travels. But that’s where the network problems begin. How do you secure connectivity and bandwidth to arbitrary destinations?
What do you think?
As the market for video conferencing is maturing, businesses’ requirements are evolving from standard definition (SD) to high definition (HD) in order to enjoy a true telepresence experience. In the high-end of the corporate video conferencing market, businesses utilise several conference rooms with multiple HD monitors and HD cameras into one telepresence meeting session.
These advanced video conference and telepresence solutions demand extreme network capacity and reliability. Many corporations extend their infrastructure to support video in their intranet using dedicated links. Besides being very costly and demanding to operate and maintain, the low flexibility and interoperability doesn’t match the expected experience for high quality internet-based visual communication.
A corporate telepresence session should be as easy as picking up the phone, to any customer, partner or employee.
Tags: arbitrary destinations, IP network, video conferencing
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October 7th, 2009
The acquisition of TANDBERG by Cisco will represent a paradigm shift in the whole industry of Video Conferencing, Telepresence and Unified Communication.
When a giant like Cisco commits to the industry with a 3 billion dollar acquisition this is a proof of the maturity and the great potential of our industry.
Many have uttered skepticisms in regard to the impact this will have on the competition in VC industry and the industry’s efforts to apply open standards.
This is understandable, and we will all be watching closely.
It’s likely however that Cisco and TANDBERG will speed up the integration of open standards and efficient interoperability. In order to reach set revenue targets and their common goal of mass deployment of Video Conferencing and Telepresence, market share is not enough, they will want to make the market bigger.
Ciscos global presence and marketing power alone will increase the awareness around VC immensely. This will not only benefit TANDBERG and Cisco, but the whole industry will prosper under this increased attention.
- VC will get more top level management attention
- VC will become part of most companies strategy
- VC will not only replace internal meetings but most external meetings as well
- VC will come out of the boardroom and on to each employees desktop
- VC will become as easy as picking up the phone
Read more on how the means of communication will change: Video Conferencing as easy as picking up the phone.
Tags: cisco, tandberg, video conferencing
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