Sunday 25 March 2012

Avaya Enters Into Agreement to Acquire RADVISION Ltd.

Another major acquisition, looks like we will have another major player to take on Polycom and Cisco.  


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Friday 16 March 2012

Tuesday 13 March 2012

Cisco - No. 1 in Video Conference

IDC Reports VTC Market is now $2.7 Billion
The IDC Worldwide Enterprise Videoconferencing and Telepresence Qview shows a strong Q4 2011 with videoconferencing revenue growing 19% quarter over quarter and 24.6% year over year to reach $807.9 million. Specifically, the single-codec telepresence segment of the market grew 38.7% year over year to $444.1 million and now accounts for 55.0% of the total market.
For the full year 2011, total enterprise videoconferencing market revenue reached $2.7 billion, an increase of 20.5% over the full year 2010. This compares favorably versus the 16.6% growth we saw in 2010 over 2009, further pointing to an accelerated adoption of video in the enterprise.
Cisco 4Q11 results beat the overall market with its 35% year-over-year growth. Cisco remains the clear market leader and now holds 54.3% of the market, an improvement over the 51.7% in 3Q11 and 50.2% in 4Q10. Cisco's full year 2011 revenue increased 48.7% over the same period in 2010.
In comparison, Polycom's revenue increased 15.2% year over year in 4Q11, which meant that Polycom recorded 20.8% annual growth for the full year 2011.


Read More: http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS23344012


Check out a graphic representation of the numbers: 
http://accounts.icharts.net/portal/app?page=TeamChartDetail&sp=SM3rVyihD&service=external

The worlds best In-wall iPad™ docking system

Very nice product. Going to look good in our installs. The security feature makes the iPad a very good and secure touchpanel replacement 



Thursday 8 March 2012

Optoma has introduced its all-new EcoBright line of lamp-free, maintenance-free projectors.

Wow, - 2000 lumens from LED with 10000 hour lamp (415 days continuously) and 40% less energy consumption than the Metal Halide models. Well done Optoma, this is the future of projectors (and basically all other display devices)

Wednesday 7 March 2012

Kramer .... looking to the future !

I really like this video, it is short, sharp and to the point. Great to see these manufacturers addressing the problems we deall with everyday.  Can't wait to play with this kit.

http://www.inavateonthenet.net/video/47856/Kramer-demonstrates-Step-In-solution.aspx