Got at least Another 30 Minutes of Fame This Fall
Had the privilege of being quoted in a couple of magazines this Fall:
In an article titled “Videoconferencing Goes Down Market” InAVate magazine:
“A cloud-based solution like LifeSize Connections allows a small vendor like me to implement very large projects very quickly for new customers,” says Kaleidoscope’s Christianson.
“Say that I have a customer that wants 30 endpoints deployed around the U.S.and 120 desktop systems for his mobile workforce and wants them all to be able to conference via a schedule or ad hoc as they like. In a traditional installation, this would take a lot of planning, a lot of work to get the infrastructure up and running, a lot of bandwidth or need to co-locate some central equipment and a lot of time and training.”
“With LifeSize Connections, I can have the mobile systems up and running immediately, using the firewall traversal, the MCU, presence server and IM client that are build into the service. The endpoints can be added as soon as I can get a tech on-site. And in this case, the entire deployment would be done by techs that just need to know how to hook up a codec and make a call.”
For the full text of the article, click here.
The other article was in AVTechnology magazine titled “The Sate of IP-Based AV Control Systems.”
One common pitfall is to overwhelm users with too many options. For example, J. Scot Christianson, owner of Kaleidoscope Videoconferencing, remembers a room where users had to select the source for each of the four monitors. If that weren’t enough, each time they wanted to change a source, they had to select each output and then make the switch.
“It was an extremely flexible system, and any combination of inputs to output could be achieved,” Christianson says. “But from the user perspective, the room was completely non-functional and was the most avoided room on campus. They just wanted a button that said, ‘start presentation’ [or] ‘use document camera’”
The article can be found here: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/newbay/avtech_201110/index.php#/38
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