Wednesday 9 February 2011
Dear Reader,
News for the week to 7 February 2011 is published at www.tpandvcinsight.com. The next News Summary will be published on Wednesday 16 February 2011 when we continue our Editor's Choice Awards for the Best Achievements of the Year 2010 with the Best Managed Conferencing Service Providers
There are 6 Telepresence user application stories: Westin Hotel Tokyo has opened a public Cisco Telepresence room with Tata Communications; Starwood Hotels group now has public TP rooms in 14 cities worldwide; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, installs 3 Cisco TelePresence Rooms to video link the Mayor and its Emergency Services; Safaricom and Tata Communications launch three Cisco TelePresence 3100 Suites in Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda; Turner Broadcasting System has deployed 3 Polycom RPX Telepresence solutions and more than 100 Polycom HDX room and personal HD VC solutions across its global locations; Manitoba has launched a Provincial TelePresence Network linking three Universities with virtual meeting and teaching capacity; The University of Ulster in Northern Ireland is to invest £450,000 in Telepresence systems to video link 4campuses and seeks vendor offers.
There are 2 HD Videoconferencing user application stories: The Government of the Canadian Province of Ontario has reduced Travel Spending by $30 Million with video conferencing and web casting and tighter rules on travel expenses; London Bridge Hotel has chosen the Polycom DSX 700 HD videoconferencing systems to enhance its meeting room and conference offering (VC-NET).
The Industry News this week is: Ricoh selects Vidyo to bring high quality videoconferencing to its new Unified Communications and Collaboration Platform ... KDDI, HP, Google, Hitachi, Teliris and Intel also use the Vidyo platform; Fuze Box has developed a game-changing, mobile product implementing Vidyo's platform to bring high quality, multi-party videoconferencing to mobiles and desktops.
The New Equipment news: Vidyo launches IBM Lotus Sametime Plug-in to enable multi-party HD videoconferencing using the presence and other features of Lotus Sametime; Polycom``s integration with the IBM UC2 environment and Lotus Sametime puts Polycom video collaboration one click away for millions of Lotus Sametime users; RADVISION demonstrated the new SCOPIA Video Gateway for Microsoft® Lync™ at ISE last week; Avistar has launched Avistar C3 Unified`` for Microsoft Lync for multi-party HD VC on Microsoft Lync.
There are 8 regular features of News in Brief about: The Channel and Systems Integrators; Managed Conferencing Service Providers; Telecom Infrastructure Developments; Video on mobile phones, smart phones and tablets: Telemedicine and Remote Health Care; Web Casts and Video Streaming; Market Metrics and Industry Reports; and Videoconferencing Peripherals and Components.
The List of Industry Events looks 6 months ahead. Next week is The 2011 GSMA Mobile World Congress from 14 to 17 February in Barcelona, Spain.
Enjoy your readingRichard Line
Editor
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