Category Archives: Videoconferencing Tech

What the Stats screen on LifeSize Connections means

Posted on February 12, 2012 by J Scott Christianson

When using LifeSize Connections, the overall call quality can be judged from the “five bar” status indicator at the bottom of the video screen. However, if you want to get more detailed information about your call stats, simple press ctrl-s … Continue reading →

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NOTE: H323 TEST SITES HAS MOVED!

Posted on January 20, 2012 by J Scott Christianson

The list of H323 TEST Sites has moved to a new permanent location at Kaleidoscope Videoconferencing: Click here to access. There you will find the list in various forms including address-book files that you can simply import into your codec … Continue reading →

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Hack: How to allow LifeSize Connection Guests to Call your LifeSize Connection Endpoints

Posted on December 31, 2011 by J Scott Christianson

This is not really supported or supposed to happen, but there is a way to get Guest Accounts on Connections to be able to call Registered Endpoints. There is no way for a guest to “Add Contact” for the endpoint … Continue reading →

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What about those “other” vendors

Posted on November 5, 2011 by J Scott Christianson

Most of us working in the videoconferencing world, deal with a limited number of manufacturers: Polycom, Cisco (Tandberg), LifeSize, Radvision, Vidyo, perhaps Sony. But there remains a large number of manufacturers that make endpoints, that sometimes offer many more features … Continue reading →

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Ninite: One Installer to rule them all

Posted on November 4, 2011 by J Scott Christianson

Was out at a job site in Springfield MO and the client that I was working with showed me this web site: http://ninite.com/ . Ninite allows you to pick the programs that you want to install and then it will … Continue reading →

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UC/AV/VTC integration and the future of the videoconferencing market

Posted on October 29, 2011 by J Scott Christianson

Been thinking more and more about UC and how the videoconferencing market might change in the next couple of years. After getting back from the VCI-Group meeting in New Orleans, and corresponding with Tim Kridel from InAVate magazine (www.inavateonthenet.net and … Continue reading →

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Off forming a new company: VTCStream.com

Posted on October 29, 2011 by J Scott Christianson

It’s been a while since I have posted to The FreeRange Technologist. The main reason is that I have been tied up starting a new business called VTCStream. This could best be classified as an infrastructure as a service (IAAS) … Continue reading →

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Load-Balancing Switches: Bad for Video Conferencing

Posted on October 22, 2011 by J Scott Christianson

Worked last week on an installation at a government facility with a firewall transversal device (in this case a radvision pathfinder). While outbound connections worked great, the inbound connections didn’t work at all. The way that the pathfinder works is … Continue reading →

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Some new VTC Test Sites

Posted on August 13, 2011 by J Scott Christianson

All information related to H323 and SIP Test Sites and Numbers can now be found at it’s permanent home: http://www.kalvideo.com/test-sites     # # #

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