Video Conferencing Used in Mental Health Facilities

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TMCnet HD Video Conferencing Week in Review

Why HD Video Conferencing for SMBs and Why Now
Like many industry analysts I have spent seemingly decades proclaiming the coming year as, "The Year of Business Video." In fact, as the years have gone by predictions have become bolder with the addition of the words, "for everyone."

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TMCnet Conferencing Week in Review

Fontel's President Kurt Mitchell on Yamaha and Web Conferencing ProjectPhones With 35 years of experience in the communications industry and a true understanding of the ever-changing advancements in technology, Fontel is positioned to deliver its customers cutting-edge solutions that carry them into the future. With a specialized focus on conferencing, Fontel has partnered with major manufacturers to offer revolutionary voice and data communication products and services. Our discussion today will highlight Fontel and its affiliation with Yamaha and focus on Yamaha's Projectphones, a series of arrayed microphones that feature an acoustically-engineered structural design, as well as its echo canceller, a technology that eliminates audio cut-out and echo for smooth performance.

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TMCnet HD Video Conferencing Week in Review

Why HD Video Conferencing for SMBs and Why Now
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TMCnet Conferencing Week in Review

- Alert), Polycom Lifesize, other H.323 and SIP-based room systems, Microsoft Lync clients, mobile devices and telephones.

Lindenbaum launched its Media Resource Function carrier-grade platform, based on MicroTCA (News - Alert) technology. The platform offers affordable voice and conferencing solutions in next-generation networks. This carrier-grade multipoint platform is meant for IP and TDM networks, protocols and devices.

The platform's IP-based open communication architecture offers an ideal fit with IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture. Furthermore, the MRF solution can process millions of calls per day due to its scalable nature.

Lastly, BrideLive.com was launched this week. This video conferencing solution is designed specifically to help wedding and entertainment professionals in wedding planning. The tool sports a variety of features such as photo viewer, interactive billboard, multimedia video player, facility floor plan builder, and instant email verification to aid the planning process.

That's all for this week in this sector. Be sure to check back at the Conferencing Channel for more news in this sector.

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Cisco's Cloud-Based Video Conferencing Changes Name

- Alert) said it will cut about 1,300 jobs – or two percent of its workforce – as part of its restructuring of the company, TMCnet reported.

“We are performing a focused set of limited restructurings that will collectively impact approximately two percent of our global employee population,” the company said in an e-mailed statement.

Last year, Cisco started a plan to cut expenses by $1 billion in an effort to make the company leaner and more efficient, which included cutting about 10,000 jobs in July 2011. Last spring, the company said it planned to cut 15 percent of its workforce.

In its earnings statement in May, Cisco reported Q3 net sales of $11.6 billion, net income of $2.2 billion and non-GAAP net income of $2.6 billion.

To find out more about David Tucker, Vice President and General Manager Small Business Business Unit (SBBU), and Cisco, visit the company at ITEXPO West 2012. To be held Oct. 2-5 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX, ITEXPO (News - Alert) is the world’s premier IP communications event. Tucker will be a keynote speaker at the event. For more information on ITEXPO West 2012 click here.

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Arkadin Launches Cloud-Based Video Conferencing Service

5 Considerations When Creating a Unified Communications Strategy
More businesses are turning to next-generation IT solutions in an effort to meet the demands of a stubbornly slow economy coupled with the challenges of operating in an increasingly connected world. Companies realize that in order to thrive in today's economic climate, they must be more agile and efficient than ever. One solution that has proven essential to helping businesses achieve these goals is unified communications.

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TMCnet Conferencing Week in Review

The Conference Room in 2012
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TMCnet's HD Video Conferencing Week in Review

Why HD Video Conferencing for SMBs and Why Now
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Arkadin Selects Avaya for Diverse Conferencing Services

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CCW Research: Polycom Leads Video Conferencing Market in China

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- Alert) announced its survey results show that many business owners plan to work remotely over the summer. Cisco surveyed 500 small businesses asking the owners what their plans are this summer. The results showed that on average, owners plan to work remotely at least 18 days throughout the course of the summer.

Kayvon Ghoreshi, TMCnet contributing writer, reported that about 15 percent of the owners plan on working remotely for almost a month and said a lot of it has to do with the industry. “The survey also showed that 23 percent of respondents have businesses that rely on telecommunications regardless of the season, and many prefer working remotely to avoid some of the hassles inherent in a normal office environment,” said Ghoreshi.

Glenn Bray, senior director of the Cloud Collaboration Applications Technology Group at Cisco, said these results show a new trend in business. “The results demonstrate the extent to which telephone and video conferencing have become ingrained in the work habits of small business owners, since nearly half of the survey respondents say traditional, in-person meetings are become less relevant,” said Bray. “It’s clear small business owners need to stay ‘connected’ to the office even during the summer vacation season, and so we’ve given them the tools to not only meet, but also easily and efficiently manage content relevant for those meetings wherever they happen to be.”

Read more about Cisco’s survey results here.

Stay up-to-date on the latest HD Video Conferencing news at TMCnet.com.

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Fontel's President Kurt Mitchell on Yamaha and Web Conferencing ProjectPhones With 35 years of experience in the communications industry and a true understanding of the ever-changing advancements in technology, Fontel is positioned to deliver its customers cutting-edge solutions that carry them into the future. With a specialized focus on conferencing, Fontel has partnered with major manufacturers to offer revolutionary voice and data communication products and services. Our discussion today will highlight Fontel and its affiliation with Yamaha and focus on Yamaha's Projectphones, a series of arrayed microphones that feature an acoustically-engineered structural design, as well as its echo canceller, a technology that eliminates audio cut-out and echo for smooth performance.

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Polycom Updates its RealPresence Platform for Enhanced Video Conferencing

Fontel's President Kurt Mitchell on Yamaha and Web Conferencing ProjectPhones With 35 years of experience in the communications industry and a true understanding of the ever-changing advancements in technology, Fontel is positioned to deliver its customers cutting-edge solutions that carry them into the future. With a specialized focus on conferencing, Fontel has partnered with major manufacturers to offer revolutionary voice and data communication products and services. Our discussion today will highlight Fontel and its affiliation with Yamaha and focus on Yamaha's Projectphones, a series of arrayed microphones that feature an acoustically-engineered structural design, as well as its echo canceller, a technology that eliminates audio cut-out and echo for smooth performance.

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TMCNet Conferencing Week in Review

- Alert) connection.

Next came word from LoopUp, a rebranding of Ring2 that recently released a set of new conferencing applications that allow for scheduling meetings via Outlook by remote, as well as join conference calls in progress, see alerts for when other people join the conferences that are already in progress, and even mute background noise. LoopUp has been operating since 2003 under the name Ring2, so while the name may be different, the expertise is clear and present.

Woori Investment and Securities brought a valuable piece of news our way by announcing their plans to deploy Polycom (News

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- Alert) stated that it has unveiled new telecommunications solutions designed to help enhance high-impact meetings. According to TMCnet Contributor Nathesh, Cisco’s offerings include “new desktop and mobile Cisco Jabber collaboration applications and Cisco TelePresence systems that can help people collaborate anywhere, anytime and these offerings easily integrate with Cisco’s recent Jabber releases for iPad, Windows.”

Cisco plans on using their new platform called, TelePresence TX900 Series to raise the standard of telecommunications by making all parties feel like they are collaborating in-person. The new three-screen telepresence system allows for a much more natural collaboration process.

To read more about Cisco’s TX900 series, click here for TMCnet’s full report.

Be sure to check here daily for more from TMCnet on Conferencing.

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“Conferencing is how business is getting done today.” That quote comes from Greg Plum (News - Alert), the vice president of Channel Development for SmartMeeting. This week, SmartMeeting released a new conferencing solution that can accommodate up to 1,000 participants, facilitating toll, toll-free and HD VoIP calls as well as screen sharing. This low-cost option also features a meeting “wall,” on which conference call participants can post pertinent contact information, files or links.

Also this week, LoopUp released the results of a study indicating that 23 percent of time during a conference call is wasted by technical difficulties as well as other distractions. That wasted time, according to LoopUp, costs U.K. businesses approximately $6.2 billion each year.

LoopUp’s solution to the problem provides an interface that allows callers to schedule meetings via Outlook, web and smartphone. The application can call participants at the phone number of their choice when the meeting is scheduled to begin, and on-screen lists will tell participants exactly who is on the call. If background noise is part of the distraction, then participants can use a button on the control panel to filter out the distraction.

In other news, TMCnet reported this week that Cisco (News

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Conferencing Outfit Arkadin Helps Customers, Partners Expand their Horizons

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC

Arkadin (News - Alert) is investing in the channel and plans to develop additional initiatives on that front going forward. That’s the word from Scott McMaster, vice president of sales at the company, which sells audio and web conferencing services and unified communications solutions.

The company’s strategy revolves around integrating best-of-breed solutions, he said, so Arkadin is one part SaaS (News

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8x8 Sharpens Call Centers' Cloud Presence with Advanced Chat, Conferencing

- Alert) Inc., who recently acquired Contactual (News - Alert), a provider of cloud-based call center solutions, just announced several enhancements to its Virtual Office PBX phone service and a Virtual Office Pro unified communications solution.

8x8 Inc. is a source for communication technologies for businesses in the cloud. Its merger with Contactual fosters virtual call centers resulting from several adaptations in IaaS and SaaS (News

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