TANDBERG – TCS Intervention :: INLET – Spinnaker 7000 :: Shoot out immeinent

Hello gorgeous!  Just when I was ready to give up on my industry and technology partners, faith is restored… allegedly.

We shall see how the follow-through plays out in the real world, but it appears that our friends at Tandberg not only have no fear of the Nico implementing their TCS (Tandberg Content Server) and telepresence systems into our Broadcast facilities, but they SAY they will allow me to demo AND execute a “shoot out” against the INLET Spinnaker from our HD Digital Hub and “Digital Meet Me Point” Azzurro.  I did, in fact, invite “others” to participate, but companies such as Digital Rapids and Kulabyte were not interested nor would either permit a demo longer than a week, which is ridiculous.

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Introducing:: TELEPRESENCE

There has been a lot of buzz surrounding “telepresence” – a phrase coined by Video TeleConferencing (VTC)  system manufacturers such as Cisco, Polycom, TelaNETix and others.

It is yet another marketing angle on invigorating the old VTC market – The same issues with these new units apply, as existed with the old, here are the TOP 3 Issues Nico has with Telepresence:

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