| April 03, 2012 What's Up in LTE-enabled Video Conferencing? SURF's Up! SMBs Take Note  By Peter Bernstein, Senior Editor
Have you noticed? Almost every information and communications technology (ICT) device we use today at work, for personal reasons and increasingly for both has a front-facing camera. In fact, cameras on ICT devices (front-facing and back-facing on smartphones), and their presence in much of the installed base of devices worldwide has been a somewhat under-appreciated revolution. If you were distracted, it has transpired mostly in the past four years and it is certainly picking up steam. Yes those embedded cameras have disintermediated a good chunk of the standalone camera business. However, along with helping enable the tablet/smartphone explosion, front-facing camera ubiquity has become the on-ramp to the era of everywhere, any time, high-definition (HD) and high-fidelity, everyone can participate according to what they are near or are carrying, video conferencing (VC). The global rush to 4G LTE (News - Alert) is fueling the fire. This is not about “see you, see me.” It is about “engage me, make me smarter and more productive.” It is about the socialization and democratization of IT. While the benefits of quality room-based system VC experiences have been well known and documented for several years —lower travel costs, on-demand and instant access to subject matter experts no matter their location, integration with unified communications and collaboration tools to improve decision-making quality as well as speed, ability to do enterprise-wide broadcasting, etc. — high-quality video conferencing has been almost exclusively the preserve of large enterprises. The reasons small to medium business (SMB) adoption has been out of reach include... Read More
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