Yamaha, whose membership had been pending due to internal proceedings at the time of the original alliance announcement, becomes the 9th full member of OCA Alliance.

Developed recently by Bosch Communications Systems, OCA is descended from AES-24, a system control protocol developed by the Audio Engineering Society in the 1990s.

The OCA Alliance formed to standardize an Open Control Architecture (OCA) for a wide interoperability of professional audio equipment. Since its formation in June this year the members have been working towards a final Read more...

Talk & Vision, a provider of visual collaboration solutions and managed conferencing services throughout the EU, expands its strategic partnership with IVCi, LLC, a leading integrator of high definition video conferencing and telepresence solutions, audio visual systems, and managed conferencing services in USA.

This expansion will tightly integrate the joint Video Network Operation Centers as well as enhance service and support options for both IVCi and Talk & Vision’s customers.

“Our US customers have been increasing their presence into Europe at Read more...

A global provider of cloud managed video services, Glowpoint says it’s seeing a marked increase in usage of immersive telepresence systems by end-users who also use cloud managed video services.

As recorded by Glowpoint's own telepresence management system, immersive telepresence end-users logged over 48,000 hours of meetings on immersive telepresence systems in the first half of 2011, which represents a 102% increase in usage over the same period in 2010.

If usage trends in 2011 follow 2010, usage could top 100,000 hours on immersive systems Read more...

Everyone wants videoconferencing products to integrate desktop applications like Skype, iChat and GoogleTalk into high-end VTC systems-- especially HD ones. This would allow everyone to be able to jump on a VTC network anywhere at any time-- even if you don't have a high-end VTC system.

Well, those days are coming and in the meantime, companies like Cisco, Polycom and now Logitech with LifeSize are offering a patch-like solution by making their networks available via mobile devices like iPads and mobile phones via the Cloud.

Dubbed LifeSize Connections Read more...