Wednesday 9 March 2011
Dear Reader,
News for the week to 7 March 2011 is published at www.tpandvcinsight.com. The next News Summary will be published on Wednesday 16 March 2011.
The lead story describes how High-Definition Telepresence systems from Polycom are becoming the preferred solution for producers of U.S. popular TV shows such as Dr. Phil, The Doctors, and Ask Oprah's All Stars. Hollywood producers rely on Polycom Telepresence for on-camera communication with talk show guests, and for collaboration between dispersed sites on the pre- and post-production process of making filmed series.
Further considerable interest from the entertainment industry is expected when the Telepresence World event is held within NABSHOW (National Association of Broadcasters) at Las Vegas Convention Center next month from 11-14 April 2011. The NAB event attracts 100,000 media and entertainment professionals from 150 countries.
Other user applications of HD videoconferencing and video streaming are: Australia``s Academic and Research Network streamed a series of HD video demonstrations of gastrointestinal endoscopy to endoscopy specialists in China, South Korea, Japan and Thailand; Arizona State University has adopted the new VidyoReplay appliance that lets users record and web cast their own video conferences; the pilot use a high definition holographic video rear projection system from Musion at Manchester Airport; and 4 HD videoconferencing user stories in brief.
New equipment news is: The new VidyoRouter™ Cloud Edition offers service providers and large enterprises a scaleable network of VidyoRouter™ appliances to optimize WAN bandwidth utilization and save costs; Cisco enables interoperability between the Cisco umi™ Telepresence for consumers and the Cisco TelePresence portfolio for businesses; Vidyo has announced the Vidyo Plug-In for Microsoft Lync; the new Cisco Jabber (tm) is a Unified Communications and presence application to see if and on what device colleagues are available ... hence a rival to Lync and SameTime.
Industry News is: Interoperability testing of Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) will be one of the key focus areas of interoperability testing at IMTC SuperOp! 2011 at Kona, Hawaii, 16 - 20 May 2011
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 up is the Telepresence World event is held within NABSHOW (National Association of Broadcasters) at Las Vegas Convention Center next month from 11-14 April 2011.
Enjoy your reading
Richard Line
Editor
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