rich mavrogeanes

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    • Video-conference? No, Telepresence! [view article]
      We've been outfitting companies with telepresence since 1998...in fact we likely popularized the term vs. legacy "videoconferences... We welcome Cisco to the market. But while the author suggests gold-plated prices for this type of equipment, the fact is thousands of people have been doing this for years at far, far lower costs.

      I don't believe you can get almost-as-good for 1/10'th the price....you can get true telepresence for 1/10th the price, but not using legacy videoconference gear and without spending anything near $18K per month for bandwidth service, largely because the initial institutions that deploy it already have the necessary fat pipes.

      Cisco saying telepresence is good will certainly help make more people aware there is life beyond the 1970's videoconference technology. Telepresense is more related to IPTV and television broadcast than it is related to legacy videoconference gear, and its emergence as a tool for better communications will have important social, economic, and even political consequences IMHO.

      Cisco has fired a lot of blanks in recent years as they attempt to get their arms around this market, but in time they may get the right formula. In any case, video deployment drives infrastructure sales (more routers, more switches) and drives convergence (more IPTelephony, more caching), so whether Cisco does well with video or files more blanks, its still good for Ciso and the whole video, multimedia, and networking industry.

      Rich Mavrogeanes
      VBrick Sytems, Inc.
      vbrick.com       Sep 28 08:18 PM
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