Students and teachers from throughout the nation will be gathering at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston April 29-May 1 to present research results to fellow students and NASA scientists and engineers. The 62 students and 31 educators will represent 31 NASA Explorer Schools at an annual national student symposium.
The students will learn more about [...]

Advances in Streaming Multicast and Real-time HD Video Over WLANs Deliver Greater Video Effectiveness in Schools, Hospitals, Enterprises
London, April 14, 2009 – Meru Networks has introduced the first wireless LAN solution optimised for delivering high-quality video over the new generation of IEEE 802.11n networks.
Meru’s Video Services Module (ViSM) is designed to address video-delivery issues specific [...]

TreeHouse, the national charity for autism education, has opted for a videoconferencing solution from award-winning managed video services provider vc-net – www.vc-net.net – to allow greater access to a Masters course in Applied Behaviour Analysis.
Ian Wylie, TreeHouse Chief Executive, explains: “TreeHouse has just moved into its first permanent new home – the Pears National Centre [...]

New Web-Based Videoconferencing Solution Will Contribute 2% of Gross Revenue to Environmental Organization, Miocean Foundation
“Companies have been trying to get online videoconferencing to really work for people for quite a while now. We think this is both the technology and the application to make it happen,” said Greg Rokos, president of FutureResume.com. Rokos was [...]

Move integrates firewall traversal into Avistar software and extends adoption of industry standards for multimedia communications
Avistar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq: AVSR) has partnered with Paradial AS to integrate advanced firewall traversal technology into C3, Avistar’s industry-leading software for desktop and room-based videoconferencing and collaboration. The move means that C3 now offers similar simplicity and ease-of-use as [...]

Telepresence solution promises to be the visual communications tool of the future. After a tepid start, the technology now tops videoconferencing systems in utilization rates on the strength of its high quality images and sound, simplicity and tightly integrated service element.
These features enable users to work productively without experiencing communication fatigue for longer hours [...]

From siloed solutions, conferencing is rapidly evolving to be included along with technologies such as data, collaboration, secure instant messaging, unified messaging, and VoIP to form a complete solution. The emergence of total unified communications (UC) is transforming videoconferencing’s long-standing status as a niche technology for use in a conference room setting and mostly in [...]

The Asia-Pacific videoconferencing endpoints market recovered strongly from an anemic performance in 2005, turning in robust growth over the last two years. Revenues grew 20.3 percent and 17.6 percent in 2006 and 2007 respectively, driven by stronger capital expenditure in IT against a backdrop of sturdy economic growth and FDIs (foreign direct investments) in the [...]

The annual revenue of the videoconferencing services companies for 2006 almost doubled to $607 million from $308 million in 2005. As the technology continues to improve and more and more IP based solutions become available videoconferencing is becoming increasingly common
“In our recent survey of UK businesses* we found that the popularity of videoconferencing is increasing [...]