Business are now asking for integration of desktop video solutions with group and telepresence systems. They are also asking for integration of video with the PBX and the UC core to enable video telephony and click-to-videoconference. In such systems, there are three possible call control centers: the enterprise PBX, the UC server, and the call control native to group video systems. This session discusses tradeoffs and strategies for integrating group video systems with telephony and with common UC environments.
KEY QUESTIONS
* How can we integrate and scale Lync video with group/telepresence viceo?
* What options exist for integrating group/telepresence with my existing Sametime deployment?
* Is it possible to have a fully integrated UC environment that includes voice, video, and unified call control?
* What tradeoffs do I have to make if I want Lync integrated with my PBX and with my group/telepresence video solutions?
Speaker - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC
Andrew W. Davis, Sr. Partner and Founder at Wainhouse Research and company Founder, has more than ten years experience as a successful technology consultant and industry analyst. Prior to independent consulting, Andrew held senior marketing positions with several large and small high-technology companies. He has authored over 250 trade journal articles and opinion columns on multimedia communications, image and signal processing, videoconferencing, and corporate strategies. Andrew has published numerous market research reports and is the principal editor of the conferencing industry's leading newsletter, the Wainhouse Research Bulletin. Andrew specializes in videoconferencing, rich media communications, strategy consulting, and new business development. A well-known industry guest speaker, Mr. Davis holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Speaker - Brent Kelly, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research
Dr. Brent Kelly is a Vice President and Principal Analyst for Constellation Research, Inc., focusing on the intersecting technologies comprising unified communications, social business, cloud services, mobility, and video. Dr. Kelly provides strategy and counsel to key Constellation client types: Chief Information Officers, Chief Technology Officers, investment analysts, VCs, technology policy executives, sell side firms and technology buyers. Prior to joining Constellation, Dr. Kelly served for ten years as a partner at Wainhouse Research where he was the primary author of most of the firm’s unified communications reports and forecasts. Dr. Kelly has experience as the Vice President of Marketing for Sorenson Vision, an early innovator in the IP communications space, and he has served as the chief executive in a privately held manufacturing company. Prior to this, Dr. Kelly was part of the team at Schlumberger that built the devices Intel used to test their Pentium microprocessors. He also led teams developing real-time data acquisition and control systems, and adaptive intelligent design systems in several Schlumberger Oil Field services companies including 4 1/2 years working in France. He has worked as a research engineer for Conoco, implementing more efficient mathematical convergence methods for oil reservoir simulators, and as a process engineer for Monsanto. Dr. Kelly is a regular presenter at Enterprise Connect (formerly VoiceCon), the communications industry trade show where his well respected half-day tutorials have covered topics such as hosted and managed unified communications services, Microsoft Office Communications Server technical deep dives, and IBM Lotus Sametime architectural reviews. Dr. Kelly has authored articles for Business Communications Review Magazine, NoJitter.com, and he has also taught seminars in North America, Europe, Australia, and South America. Dr. Kelly has a Ph.D. in engineering from Texas A&M University specializing in thermodynamics and a B.S. in engineering from Brigham Young University. He is an elected official serving on the city council in his community.
Panelist - Mark Allen, VP Product, AcuLync
Panelist - James Brogan, Director of Firmware, Kohn Pedersen Fox Assoc
Panelist - David Danto, Principal Consultant, Collaboration, Dimension Data
David Danto has over 30 years of experience providing problem solving leadership and innovation in media and unified communications technologies for various firms in the corporate, broadcasting and academic worlds. This includes:
The building and managing of the world’s largest commercial Cisco TelePresence ecosystem (other than within Cisco) for JP Morgan Chase.
The design, implementation and operation of global video and audio conferencing facilities, television and audio/visual facilities and digital signage solutions for Lehman Brothers.
The design of television and radio facilities for Bloomberg, including the development of their revolutionary multi-screen TV format and the design and construction of studios for The Charlie Rose Show.
The development of the Television and Media Services department for NYU, including the design and implementation of America's first urban, self contained, multi-building university cable TV system using microwave links to cross public rights of way.
The design and management of multimedia and/or TV facilities for many organizations, including AT&T, Financial News Network, MTV, NBC, Rutgers University, and many others. He has also acted as Engineer in Charge for countless commercial and industrial television productions.
David's efforts have been recognized by the premiere industry organizations in media technology. In early 2007 he was elected (and still serves) as the Director of Emerging Technology for the non-profit Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance (www.imcca.org.) Additionally, InfoComm International has appointed him as Adjunct Faculty for their educational efforts every year since 2007. He has served as a National Association of Broadcasters conference “Pick-Hits” judge for Broadcast Engineering since 2001. In 2010 the CEA - the industry authority on consumer electronics – appointed him to be a judge for the Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.
David is a frequent contributor to industry publications and presenter at industry events. He is also the author of the popular “View From The Road” series of blogs. In addition, David has served on many manufacturer council and advisory boards for firms including Polycom, Plantronics, AVI-SPL and BlueJeansNet.
David has recently joined Dimension Data, a global ICT services and solutions provider, to focus on Multimedia and Collaboration Technology Architecture consulting services in the US.
Panelist - Phil Mooney, President and CEO, Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC)
This session will here from several vendors who are working on new technologies, services, or solutions that may alter the fundamental way we use video and collaboration applications in the future.
KEY QUESTIONS
* What's coming down the pike that I need to know about?
* How will some of these new technologies or applications change the way I work?
* How will these new ideas save money?
* Will these new ideas disrupt the present market and vendors?
Speaker - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC
Andrew W. Davis, Sr. Partner and Founder at Wainhouse Research and company Founder, has more than ten years experience as a successful technology consultant and industry analyst. Prior to independent consulting, Andrew held senior marketing positions with several large and small high-technology companies. He has authored over 250 trade journal articles and opinion columns on multimedia communications, image and signal processing, videoconferencing, and corporate strategies. Andrew has published numerous market research reports and is the principal editor of the conferencing industry's leading newsletter, the Wainhouse Research Bulletin. Andrew specializes in videoconferencing, rich media communications, strategy consulting, and new business development. A well-known industry guest speaker, Mr. Davis holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Panelist - Pierre Sergerie, VP Consumer Electronics, Immervision
Pierre Sergerie is responsible for the Consumer Electronics BU at ImmerVision. His primary goal is to bring ImmerVision’s 360° Technology into the consumer world with focus on Video Collaboration and gaming applications.
Capitalizing on his 20 years of International B2B business development experience, sales and marketing leadership in, Asia, Europe and North America in the Electronics, Technology, Web and Telecom industries in various senior management positions, he brings strong strategic thinking, vision and creativity to make ImmerVision a stronger and even more relevant leader in its field.
We are just around the corner from video collaboration “everywhere”, and ImmerVision takes the video experience to a new level. It is disruptive, fun, cost effective and easy to deploy.
In short, ImmerVision enables 360° Technology. We achieve that through IMV’s invented unique Panomorph Lens supported by its light and portable viewing software algorithm to enable panoramic and immersive functionalities.
Akhil Behl is a Senior Network Consultant with Cisco Advanced Services Team. He has 8+ years of experience in IT and has been associated with Cisco for past 7 years. Prior to his current role, he was working with Cisco TAC Security and Voice teams. He is leading Unified Communications and UC Security projects worldwide for Cisco AS customers and CPS portfolio as a Technical Lead. He is an active member of Unified Communications Security Tiger Team. He is ITIL, PMP and CCIE Voice and Security certified.
Panelist - Greg Zweig, Dir of Corporate Marketing, VBrick Systems
Panelist - David Chavez, Chief Technical Officer, Avaya
David Chavez is Avaya’s 45 year-old Chief Technical Officer with a background of Systems Architecture spanning 22 years of professional experience. His contribution has been recognized by 61 patent awards, with many more pending. He successfully and consistently bridges technology innovation and practicality, the lab and the marketplace, technical colleagues and customers.
Everyone expects video traffic to continue to grow within the enterprise, but for those running the communications network, this trend is potentially dangerous: Especially in the case of ad hoc video usage like Skype and YouTube, end user video usage is not being centrally rolled out, managed, and controlled. But even when video is a part of a controlled rollout—say, of a Unified Communications portal like Microsoft Lync—you may not have a clear sense of how much video will actually be used. So do you overprovision the network, possibly devoting more resources than are needed? Or do you risk a situation where video traffic swamps the network and hinders the performance of mission-critical applications? In this session, we’ll offer suggestions to help you walk the fine line of provisioning for video in a world where video’s future is still in flux.
KEY QUESTIONS:
* What are all the potential sources of video traffic in your network, and how do you get visibility on what traffic generators are a real factor in your enterprise?
* Who should you be in regular contact with across the enterprise, so that you won’t be surprised by sudden spikes in video usage?
* How might mobile video affect traffic load on your network—both from devices using your WLAN, and from traffic originating in the cellular network but traversing onto your corporate LAN/WAN?
* If you do find your network hit by unpredictable spikes of video traffic, what do you do to remediate?
Speaker - Terry Slattery, Principal Consultant, Chesapeake Netcraftsmen
Terry Slattery is a Principal Consultant at Chesapeake Netcraftsmen, an advanced network consulting firm that specializes in high-profile and challenging network consulting jobs. Terry is consulting in network core switching and routing. He is the founder of Netcordia, inventor of NetMRI, is co-inventor on two patents, and has been a successful technology innovator in networking during the past 20 years. He has a long history of network consulting and design work, including some of the first Cisco consulting and training on the east coast. As a consultant to Cisco, he led the development of the current Cisco IOS command line interface. Prior to Netcordia, Terry founded Chesapeake Computer Consultants, which became a Cisco premier training and consulting partner. At Chesapeake, he co-invented and patented the v-LAB system to provide hands-on access to real hardware for the hands-on component of internetwork training classes. Terry co-authored the successful McGraw-Hill text "Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks," is the second CCIE (1026) awarded, and is a sought after industry speaker and advisor. http://www.netcraftsmen.net/voicecon-orlando-2010.html
Five years ago video conferencing standards were clear, and the top 5 vendors worked hard at maintaining interoperability. The vendor landscape has now changed dramatically -- enterprises want UC- video integration, consumer-oriented desktops, TV-based services are being introduced and Skype carries more video conferencing minutes than anyone, using a proprietary protocol. We now have many more options, and they don’t interoperate. How does an enterprise make an intelligent decision about video conferencing in today’s market?
KEY QUESTIONS
* Which vendors are supporting which video protocols and standards today?
* How and when will consumer video solutions interoperate with the Enterprise?
* What is the status of inter-company video conferencing?
* Many vendors offer gateways to other protocols, why isn’t this sufficient?
Speaker - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC
Andrew W. Davis, Sr. Partner and Founder at Wainhouse Research and company Founder, has more than ten years experience as a successful technology consultant and industry analyst. Prior to independent consulting, Andrew held senior marketing positions with several large and small high-technology companies. He has authored over 250 trade journal articles and opinion columns on multimedia communications, image and signal processing, videoconferencing, and corporate strategies. Andrew has published numerous market research reports and is the principal editor of the conferencing industry's leading newsletter, the Wainhouse Research Bulletin. Andrew specializes in videoconferencing, rich media communications, strategy consulting, and new business development. A well-known industry guest speaker, Mr. Davis holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Panelist - Anatoli Levine, Sr. Director, Product Management, RADVISION
Anatoli Levine
Sr. Director of Product Management - Americas, RADVISION
Anatoli Levine is Sr. Director of Product Management - Americas at RADVISION, responsible for management of Technology Business Unit (TBU) product portfolio in the US as well as setting strategy and defining new directions for TBU products in Americas region. Prior to that, Anatoli lead technical team providing engineering services and support for RADVISION Technology products.
Since 2006, Anatoli is a President of International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) – an organization facilitating interoperable implementations of multimedia communication technologies based on open standards.
Anatoli is frequent speaker at various IP communication industry events and conferences, covering subjects of Video communications, standards and interoperability. He also contributes to the RADVISION and IMTC blogs.
Panelist - Roy Skillicorn, Senior Director, Advanced Services, TelePresence Practice Management Organization, Cisco
Roy Skillicorn is the Senior Director, responsible for Enterprise Video Technologies and Solutions within Cisco’s Services Organization.
As the Global Video Services Line owner, Mr. Skillicorn is responsible for the services strategy and services portfolio, for Cisco’s Video solutions; TelePresence, Digital Media Systems, Video surveillance, emerging video technologies and network and video infrastructure (Medianet).
In his current role, Mr. Skillicorn is responsible for:
• Analyzing current and anticipating future video collaboration technology and market trends.
• Anticipating and building services and services capabilities to support business transformation and value with Cisco’s customers. .
• Building delivery and sales readiness for video applications and Technologies.
Recently, Mr. Skillicorn was executive responsible integrating Cisco and Tandberg’s services organizations and is responsible for the combined and integrated portfolio.
Mr. Skillicorn’s expertise and experience includes network and video application technologies, technology lifecycles, and the methodologies to achieve business transformation across an enterprise.
Prior to his current position as Cisco, Mr. Skillicorn has held senior positions in mergers and acquisitions, architecture, network high availability consulting, and manufacturing quality.
Panelist - Mark Noble, Director, Product Marketing, Vidyo
Telepresence will soon be in every living room, using that big HD screen and Internet connection that we already own. The simplicity of use and the quality delivered by these systems will soon have enterprise execs wondering why they can’t take that early morning call from Europe in their living room. And the CFO will be asking why the systems in the office cost 8X the systems at home.
KEY QUESTIONS
* What is the expected quality and feature set of home solutions?
* Will home solutions be expected to connect of conference rooms?
* How will home solutions change consumer behavior and expectations?
* How will home solutions change the conferencing manager's or IT manager's job?
* One year later, what happened to Cisco umi and what can we learn from it?
Speaker - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC
Andrew W. Davis, Sr. Partner and Founder at Wainhouse Research and company Founder, has more than ten years experience as a successful technology consultant and industry analyst. Prior to independent consulting, Andrew held senior marketing positions with several large and small high-technology companies. He has authored over 250 trade journal articles and opinion columns on multimedia communications, image and signal processing, videoconferencing, and corporate strategies. Andrew has published numerous market research reports and is the principal editor of the conferencing industry's leading newsletter, the Wainhouse Research Bulletin. Andrew specializes in videoconferencing, rich media communications, strategy consulting, and new business development. A well-known industry guest speaker, Mr. Davis holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Panelist - Matthew Collier, SVP, Corporate Development, LifeSize Communications
Matt Collier is Senior Vice President of Corporate Development with a background that includes extensive experience in the telecommunications and high-tech industries. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Voice Application Services at Level 3 Communications, Inc. Prior to joining Level 3, Matt was founder and CEO of Telverse Communications, Inc., which offered the first nationally available IP Centrex service. Telverse was acquired by Level 3 in July 2003. Before founding Telverse, Matt was Vice President of Business Development and OEM Alliances at Polycom. In late 1997, Polycom acquired ViaVideo Communications, Inc., where Matt was Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. Matt holds a B.A. from the University of Memphis, Tennessee.
Panelist - Net Semonite, VP Product Management, VGo
If videoconferencing were simple, we wouldn't need these sessions. Several customers will describe what their motives were for deploying these solutions, what hosted, managed, or CPE strategies they followed, and what the challenges and rewards have been.
KEY QUESTIONS
* What strategy options are available to the end user in deploying telepresence and videoconferencing?
* What challenges have been overcome?
* What are the benefits?
* What would the customer do differently if doing it all over again?
Speaker - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC
Andrew W. Davis, Sr. Partner and Founder at Wainhouse Research and company Founder, has more than ten years experience as a successful technology consultant and industry analyst. Prior to independent consulting, Andrew held senior marketing positions with several large and small high-technology companies. He has authored over 250 trade journal articles and opinion columns on multimedia communications, image and signal processing, videoconferencing, and corporate strategies. Andrew has published numerous market research reports and is the principal editor of the conferencing industry's leading newsletter, the Wainhouse Research Bulletin. Andrew specializes in videoconferencing, rich media communications, strategy consulting, and new business development. A well-known industry guest speaker, Mr. Davis holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Panelist - Krish Ramakrishnan, CEO, Blue Jeans Network
Panelist - David Danto, Principal Consultant, Collaboration, Dimension Data
David Danto has over 30 years of experience providing problem solving leadership and innovation in media and unified communications technologies for various firms in the corporate, broadcasting and academic worlds. This includes:
The building and managing of the world’s largest commercial Cisco TelePresence ecosystem (other than within Cisco) for JP Morgan Chase.
The design, implementation and operation of global video and audio conferencing facilities, television and audio/visual facilities and digital signage solutions for Lehman Brothers.
The design of television and radio facilities for Bloomberg, including the development of their revolutionary multi-screen TV format and the design and construction of studios for The Charlie Rose Show.
The development of the Television and Media Services department for NYU, including the design and implementation of America's first urban, self contained, multi-building university cable TV system using microwave links to cross public rights of way.
The design and management of multimedia and/or TV facilities for many organizations, including AT&T, Financial News Network, MTV, NBC, Rutgers University, and many others. He has also acted as Engineer in Charge for countless commercial and industrial television productions.
David's efforts have been recognized by the premiere industry organizations in media technology. In early 2007 he was elected (and still serves) as the Director of Emerging Technology for the non-profit Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance (www.imcca.org.) Additionally, InfoComm International has appointed him as Adjunct Faculty for their educational efforts every year since 2007. He has served as a National Association of Broadcasters conference “Pick-Hits” judge for Broadcast Engineering since 2001. In 2010 the CEA - the industry authority on consumer electronics – appointed him to be a judge for the Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Design and Engineering Awards.
David is a frequent contributor to industry publications and presenter at industry events. He is also the author of the popular “View From The Road” series of blogs. In addition, David has served on many manufacturer council and advisory boards for firms including Polycom, Plantronics, AVI-SPL and BlueJeansNet.
David has recently joined Dimension Data, a global ICT services and solutions provider, to focus on Multimedia and Collaboration Technology Architecture consulting services in the US.
Panelist - William Moore, EVP and CTO, CareCore National
William Moore is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for long term direction setting of CareCore National's information technology platforms. Additionally, Mr. Moore directs strategic software and systems development and manages CareCore's core vendor and development relationships. Mr. Moore has more than 18 years of industry experience including 10 years of product consulting on AT&T core networks. His experiencing in managing large scale complex networks enables CareCore National to integrate CareCore's evidence based medicine solutions into client and industry wide environments by mobilizing novel software, analytic and communications infrastructure. He holds degrees in Finance, Economics and Information Systems from Xavier University.
Video solutions have been extended from the telepresence suite to the conference room, enterprise desktop and, now, to mobile tablets and smartphones. Will this trend finally make video calling ubiquitous? Will the impact be technical or social, or will there be no real impact? A short presentation will layout the issues and be followed by a panel discussing the impact of mobility on video.
KEY QUESTIONS
* How does making videoconferencing available on a tablet or smartphone change anything from the vendor's perspective?
* How does making videoconferencing available on a tablet or smartphone change anything from the customer's perspective?
* What should a customer look for when considering a mobile video solution?
* Which of the current solutions is ready for prime time in the enterprise?
Speaker - Andrew Davis, Senior Partner, Wainhouse Research LLC
Andrew W. Davis, Sr. Partner and Founder at Wainhouse Research and company Founder, has more than ten years experience as a successful technology consultant and industry analyst. Prior to independent consulting, Andrew held senior marketing positions with several large and small high-technology companies. He has authored over 250 trade journal articles and opinion columns on multimedia communications, image and signal processing, videoconferencing, and corporate strategies. Andrew has published numerous market research reports and is the principal editor of the conferencing industry's leading newsletter, the Wainhouse Research Bulletin. Andrew specializes in videoconferencing, rich media communications, strategy consulting, and new business development. A well-known industry guest speaker, Mr. Davis holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard University.
Panelist - Bill Zakowski, Senior Manager, Unified Communications, Avaya
Bill is responsible for creating Avaya’s messaging and marketing for the Avaya Flare™ Experience and the products that deliver that expereince. He has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry ranging from Bell Laboratories, to Lucent Technologies, several startups and most recently Avaya.
Bill has served Lucent Technologies as General Manager of Long Haul Optical Networking where he led the team in marketing and R&D of DWDM optical networking products. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Amedia Networks, a fiber to the home startup, Bill was one of the three founding members that built a company focused on designing, manufacturing, marketing and selling Ethernet based electronic switching equipment for sales to telecommunications carriers. Bill created the new brand, developed the market presence and secured sales/distribution agreements with over 12 channel partners. Bill was widely published in FTTP industry journals and secured Amedia’s first major contract valued at over $9 million.
Panelist - Michael Helmbrecht, Vice President of Product Marketing, LifeSize Communications
Speaker Bio Michael Helmbrecht is Vice President of Product Marketing for LifeSize Communications. His responsibilities include product marketing, product lifecycle management, public relations and analyst relations. Prior to LifeSize he spent nine years with Dell, Inc. where he was Director of Marketing. Michael held a number of key marketing roles at Dell, most recently leading product line management for data storage and networking in the Americas. Michael holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA in Political Science from Colgate University.
Panelist - Mike Valletutti, CEO, Applied Global Technologies