China's giant telecom equipment provider, the "Asian Cisco," made it to CeBIT with a display of its videoconferencing offer.

With a 65" inch Panasonic plasma, panoramic camera set and spatial sound, Huawei stress their telecom history as a reliable and secure supplier. Their Telepresence also uses a simplified operation via touchscreen.

Based on ITU standard protocol for compatibility with other vendors, Huawei also supports IMS architecture, PSTN voice call and 3G mobile over connections including IP, E1, 4E1 and wireless.

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Samsung and Radvision join forces to design and develop the VC240 HD desktop video conferencing solution that's embedded into a high resolution LCD monitor.

The VC240 unit, combining the Radvision video conferencing engine with a 24" widescreen Samsung LCD with built-in HD camera, hifi speakers, and dual echo cancelling mics will be distributed by Radvision. VC240 can operate as both a stand-alone HD video conferencing device and as a 24" high res monitor.

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Sony videoconferencing will drop out of the EMEA market effective March 31st, 2010.

The economy forces some companies to make hard decisions and here's an example... according to Wainhouse Research, a set of phone calls placed to resellers alerted distributors (and some of Sony's own employees)– not any official written communication from Sony.

The Sony videoconferencing products are expected to be supported for a further seven years. But no official word from Sony yet and our requests have gone unaswered as of press time.

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Tandberg releases the 3rd version of its pc desktop videoconferencing package, Movi 3.

Movi's new user interface makes it easier to use and more intuitive. However, the key enhancement is the ability to share pc content with other session participants so Movi users not only participate, but they can also host high impact, rich media collaboration sessions.

In combo with Tandberg Video Communication Server, Movi enables any pc to become a business-quality video system that connects users to any other standards based H.323 and SIP video and Read more...