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What’s Wrong With Microsoft’s WebRTC Announcement

June 14, 2016 / in VoIP / 2 Comments

What’s Wrong With Microsoft’s WebRTC Announcement

Companies such as Microsoft are shifting their revenue mix to services. In such a business model, opening the service to developers to integrate with is a power multiplier, not in R&D resources but in creativity and innovation. That is a paradigm shift from POBX vendors closing their system for their phones only to making it as open as possible.

Tagged With: Edge, Microsoft, ORTC, Skype for Business, WebRTC, WebRTC 1.0, WebRTC 1.1

Why The WebRTC Video Codec War Is Not Over Yet, VP8 & H.264 Are Still In The Boxing Ring

June 7, 2016 / in Mobile, VoIP / Add Comment

Why The WebRTC Video Codec War Is Not Over Yet, VP8 & H.264 Are Still In The Boxing Ring

There are 2 main decision criteria for choosing a video codec – technical and business. Tsahi touched the technical part in his post. While I’ll get a bit into the technical aspects as well, in this post I also want to cover some of the business considerations. Let’s put one thing behind us. The difference between H.264 and VP8 from quality perspective is more of a religion than anything else.

Tagged With: Android, Cisco, Fippo, Google, H.264, H.265, HW acceleration, iOS, Microsoft, Mobile, MPEG LA, Tsahi Levent-Levi, UIWebView, VP8, VP9 SVC, WebRTC, WebView

Topic of The Month: How Can WebRTC Applications Benefit From SyntaxNet NLU?

May 24, 2016 / in Markets & People / Add Comment

Topic of The Month: How Can WebRTC Applications Benefit From SyntaxNet NLU?

Technically WebRTC and SyntaxNet have nothing in common. What they do have in common is that Google again makes it easy to add capabilities, once in the hands of the rich and experts, as a feature into applications. Once this is possible, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) can be added also into WebRTC applications. How can WebRTC applications benefit from it?

Tagged With: Google, NLU, Open Source, SyntaxNey, Topic of the Month, WebRTC

SyntaxNet and WebRTC, It’s The Same Story All Over Again

May 17, 2016 / in IoT, Markets & People / Add Comment

SyntaxNet and WebRTC, It’s The Same Story All Over Again

Google is again taking a technology that was until now in the hands of the rich and experts making it a feature in any application. SyntaxNet will do the same to the complex technology of NLU. With SyntaxNet becoming a free to use open source, Google is doing to NLU what it did in 2011 to communications. Both WebRTC and NLU are technologies. They can be combined together

Tagged With: Neural Networks, NLU, Parsey McParseface, SyntaxNet, WebRTC

Clearing The Fog From The Apple WebRTC Relationship

May 2, 2016 / in VoIP / Add Comment

Clearing The Fog From The Apple WebRTC Relationship

While people have questioned the likelihood of Apple adding WebRTC anytime soon it is now clear to all that the WebRTC train has left the Apple planning station and is now parking at development. From the simple statement on Apple’s Webkit status page saying it is “In Development” it is still hard to understand the details. Our live Webinar & Q&A will answer some of them.

Tagged With: Apple, Safari, WebRTC, WebView

Mitel-Polycom Deal: Stems From Power or Despair?

April 19, 2016 / in Markets & People / Add Comment

Mitel-Polycom Deal: Stems From Power or Despair?

Mitel needed much more feet in the ground and Polycom was the right answer to this need. Playing it right, Mitel will be able to capitalize on this strong market presence of Polycom in the enterprise market.
The Polycom Mitel deal is a result of the need of 2 companies to improve their market position in face of competition coming from collaboration services.

Tagged With: Collaboration, Communication, Mitel, Polycom, WebRTC

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