http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/06/15/not-convinced-about-telepresence/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/06/15/not-convinced-about-telepresence/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Anonymous Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:26:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/06/15/not-convinced-about-telepresence/#comment-373 I guess with multi-cores even standard desktops will be able to deal with H.264 pretty soon if not already and lots of countries already have 1MB/s upstream and much more down. In the UK I still am a way off that but once BT have their MPLS backbone installed, hopefully we will see some further improvements in the local loop. At that point it should take off. I generally think in terms of 3 year cycles, my feeling is we will see HD to the home office in 3 years. I guess with multi-cores even standard desktops will be able to deal with H.264 pretty soon if not already and lots of countries already have 1MB/s upstream and much more down. In the UK I still am a way off that but once BT have their MPLS backbone installed, hopefully we will see some further improvements in the local loop. At that point it should take off. I generally think in terms of 3 year cycles, my feeling is we will see HD to the home office in 3 years.

]]> http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/06/15/not-convinced-about-telepresence/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Anonymous Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:11:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2007/06/15/not-convinced-about-telepresence/#comment-372 Forget Telepresence, just go High Definition. Endpoints are now well under $10k (see LifeSize Communications). Its pretty amazing to hear a whisper and be able to read a typed memo held up in front of the camera. Try that with a webcam. Agree that it really would be nice to see this get down to the desktop. I think I read somewhere that Intel or maybe Nvidia was going to start adding a specialized chip so that standard PCs could handle H.264 more easily...key to keeping HD at a reasonable bandwidth. However bandwidth is still a bottleneck with point to point HD conferences coming in at about 1 MB/s each way. I don't understand why we are not seeing better webcams or webcam software with all the improvement in technology. While more prevalent, core Desktop video has not improved much over what you could do with CU-SEEME 5 years ago. Forget Telepresence, just go High Definition. Endpoints are now well under $10k (see LifeSize Communications). Its pretty amazing to hear a whisper and be able to read a typed memo held up in front of the camera. Try that with a webcam.
Agree that it really would be nice to see this get down to the desktop. I think I read somewhere that Intel or maybe Nvidia was going to start adding a specialized chip so that standard PCs could handle H.264 more easily…key to keeping HD at a reasonable bandwidth. However bandwidth is still a bottleneck with point to point HD conferences coming in at about 1 MB/s each way.
I don’t understand why we are not seeing better webcams or webcam software with all the improvement in technology. While more prevalent, core Desktop video has not improved much over what you could do with CU-SEEME 5 years ago.

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