User’s idea brings trial of ISDN video - Mellon Bank Network Research Mgr Wayne Clifton stimulates Integrated Systems Digital Network video conferencing trial - column
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007You know ISDN is picking up speed when users, not vendors, come up with innovative ways to put it to work.
That’s how a pilot project began at Pittsburgh-based Mellon Bank, one of the 20 largest U.S. bank holding companies.
Wayne Clifton, network research manager, was looking into ISDN possibilities when he thought of videoconferences.
Mellon had tried […]
Saving lives with teletrauma video communications: trauma surgeons provide consultative services to rural communities using state-of-the-art videoconferencing technology
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Studies show rural trauma patients die twice as often as those in urban areas. Why? Time, distance and training are the primary culprits. Longer discovery times after injury, greater distances to travel for treatment and the availability–or lack of–trauma training all contribute to increased, possibly unnecessary deaths.
In response to an ever-growing need for trauma medicine […]
Wire One Communications Named as TANDBERG’s “Video Conferencing Provider of the Year”
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Wire One Communications, the largest provider of visual communication solutions and the leading provider of managed video services, was named last week as TANDBERG’s 2006 Video Conferencing Provider of the Year.
“We’re extremely pleased and proud to receive this recognition,” said Wire One’s CEO, Dan Connors. “We continue to see increased interest in the TANDBERG product […]
Nortel, Polycom to Deliver Joint Enterprise Video Conferencing Solutions Globally
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) and Polycom(1), Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM) will jointly deliver immersive telepresence and high definition (HD) video conferencing solutions to enterprises worldwide under an agreement announced today.
Nortel will resell and service Polycom video solutions as part of its new Multimedia Services portfolio. Nortel video conferencing services featuring Polycom solutions will enable global organizations […]
Solve your desktop conferencing issues
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Logitech and Polycom announced their first mutual creation: ViewPort AV 100. The product features a Logitech video camera, an integrated microphone with acoustic echo cancellation, and a Bluetooth wireless headset into a single console. It delivers 30 frames per second with H.264 video compression and Polycom’s Siren 14 (14 kHz) sound. For more information, visit […]
SightSpeed Video Messenger
Monday, September 3rd, 2007SightSpeed Video Messenger is a solid solution for one-on-one interaction, personal or business. The program’s claim to fame is its excellent video, and our tests proved the claim true. In this roundup, SightSpeed provides the best video quality on a PC, and it shows very little latency.
Setting up the software is quick and easy. As […]
Video Conferencing Has Bright Future for Growing Role as Business Tool
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Communications satellites have become crucial in our planet’s telecommunications infrastructure. Satellites today relay 60 percent of international telecommunications. More than 100 communications satellites are now orbiting the earth or are planned for the near future.
Videoconferencing is one of the brightest services made available by satellites. It has been claimed that teleconferencing saves travel time and […]
Take 2 for conferencing start-up
Monday, September 3rd, 2007ON TECHNOLOGY
While instant messaging is rampant in business,it is not yet a rampant business tool. That’s one lesson learned by start-up Convoq, which last week released Version 2.0 of ASAP, what it now calls a Web conferencing tool.
We first looked at ASAP when it was introduced in February (see www.nwfusion.com,DocFinder:5048). At the time, Convoq called […]
Business Conferencing System suits corporate meeting rooms
Monday, September 3rd, 2007RAV(TM) 600 and 900 provide complete, out-of-the-box audio conferencing systems with audio mixer, loudspeakers, microphones, and wireless control device. Used as alternative to conference phones for stand-alone audio conferencing, they can also connect to common rich-media devices. Features include Gentner[R] Distributed Echo Cancellation[R], noise cancellation, microphone gating, and drag-and-drop GUI for system setup, control, and […]
Talking heads: coming to a desktop near you - desktop video conferencing - includes product directory
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Video conferencing, traditionally the realm of corporate telecommunications, is moving to the desktop — landing it squarely in the domain of IS.
“For desktop users, if you’re going to get more than one or two, IS needs to look at the infrastructure and say, ‘What do we need to be ready?’ They need to do that […]