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DiaStar Release 2.0

For those of you may have missed the press release last week, Release 2. 0 of The DiaStar TM Server is now available for Download at www.projectdiastar.org . This new release brings a variety of video features from the Dialogic® product portfolio...

Published 03-17-2010 12:40 PM by Jeff Dworkin

Filed under: Video, Mobile Video, IVR, Open Source, Redundancy, SIP-SS7 gateway, IVVR, Diastar, Asterisk, Woomera, FREESwitch

Can Internet Video be Free?

Content-owners attitudes to YouTube vary wildly. On the one hand some (like Viacom) have decided on high-stakes legal battles for "massive intentional copyright violations". On the other, some conventional broadcasters (like NBC) have created...

Published 03-13-2010 9:32 AM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Video, mobile, over-the-top, TV, internet

Video Conferencing - an Underused Technology

Video-phones used to be the stuff of science-fiction. In the 1960s the movie 2001: a Space Odyssey , one character calls home from a payphone on the way to the Moon. Of course it was a video-phone, and he was able to have a video conference with his daughter...

Published 02-26-2010 3:07 PM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Video, science fiction, video calling, videoconferencing

Snowflakes, Bad Internet, Barcelona & the Video Convergence Forum

By the time you read this, I will have been in Barcelona for a week. While I was coming to Barcelona anyway for Mobile World Congress, I came early since the Video Convergence Forum was launched the Thursday before MWC started. Next week, I will report...

Published 02-17-2010 2:45 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Video, Mobile World Congress, Video Convergence Forum

Adding Video to Voice: Crossing the Chasm

I just returned from a trip to visit several different countries while attending the IT Expo trade show and participating in a variety of internal meetings. In my travels, I found a lot of gathering interest in the question of how video can be added to...

Published 02-05-2010 2:40 PM by jrafferty

Filed under: Video, Gateways, Voice over IP, SIP-I, IMG 1010, Vision CX, H.324M

Tell the Story in Pictures

More and more the Internet is about video content, and in fact I saw a prediction that by 2012, video will account for 50% of all Internet traffic. The BBC have a mission statement that says they should "inform, educate and entertain", which...

Published 01-25-2010 3:43 PM by Martyn Davies

Filed under: Video, YouTube, user generated content

Measuring Video Quality - Part 3

With this post, I’ll be wrapping up a multi-part discussion about measuring video quality. In the first part, I described Mean Opinion Scores and how these scores provide a quantitative value of multimedia quality. Last time, I spoke about “full...

Published 12-07-2009 6:17 PM by Bob Logan

Filed under: Video, quality, MOS, jitter, packet loss

T-Mobile and a Hamburger in Hamburg

I am in Hamburg to meet with customers - my first visit to this city. I finally ate a Hamburger in Hamburg! Previously, I have eaten a Frankfurter in Frankfurt, Peking Duck in Peking (Beijing), Buffalo Wings in Buffalo, Philly Cheesesteak in Philly (actually...

Published 11-20-2009 1:09 PM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Video

The Best Contest Ever In the Entire World

Back in April, Dialogic launched an Innovator Contest. Given the convergence of the web with traditional telephony, and given the rise of 3G networks allowing more bandwidth for video, the time seemed right to see what innovation was going on out there...

Published 10-29-2009 11:20 AM by Jim Machi

Filed under: Video, VoIP, Innovation, mobile phones, Crealog, LBS, Almira Labs, CRBT, Innovator Contest, 3G

Making Money Off Illegal Content

Some time ago, we talked about one possible video application would be to monitor User Generated Content (UGC) for illicit material, such as copy-righted material that was posted against the wishes of the content owner. The application focused on being...

Published 10-27-2009 4:44 PM by Brian Peebles

Filed under: Video, content monitoring, illegal content

Content Delivery Networks and Video Quality

I just read through Bob's blog on video quality and, if I read it correctly, he believes video quality is a key differentiator for wireless service providers. In particular, Bob points out that consumer expectations are high because of professionally...

Published 09-24-2009 8:12 PM by Vaughn Eisler

Filed under: Video, quality, Amazon, Level 3, CDNetworks, AT&T, Limelight, Verizon, Akamai, BT, content delivery network, CDN

VoIP is Alive and Well

In my last post , I talked about a planned speaking engagement at Internet Telephony Expo on the topic of "Is VoIP Dead? Where does it Stand?" The other panelists besides myself were Scott Navratil, VP of Sales and Marketing for Vitelity, a...

Published 09-24-2009 11:34 AM by jrafferty

Filed under: Video, VoIP, Media Gateways, SIP, Voice over IP, SS7, Internet Telephony Expo

Does Quality Matter?

In my last post, I wrote about Nielsen’s “ Three Screens Report ”, a quarterly publication that provides statistics about America’s video viewing habits on the three screens of television, computer (internet), and mobile device...

Published 09-21-2009 3:22 AM by Bob Logan

Filed under: Video, quality, YouTube, Service Level Agreement, Verizon Wireless

“Over the Top Video” vs. “Service Provider-based Video-on-Demand”

One interesting debate i have been following recently is whether consumers will choose to download videos using their service provider's video-on-demand service or whether they will choose to download or stream videos from third parties, i.e., iTunes...

Published 09-19-2009 2:41 PM by Vaughn Eisler

Filed under: Video, Apple, MSO, Virgin Media, Microsoft, quality, Sony, over-the-top, Amazon

Making Money in Video Part V

This blog continues a multi-part series that suggests ideas by which our customers could deploy and monetize video applications. Most of these ideas (as stated) are as yet un-tested in the industry, but we believe there is enough value in the ideas to...

Published 09-15-2009 4:49 PM by Brian Peebles

Filed under: Video, video technology

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