Video Calling Coming

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Video Calling Coming

8x8 tried the Granny Vid-Phone for a while. (Demo is here). At dinner at IT Expo, we were talking about Video Calling and Scott Wharton's name came up because he is rolling out video calling with VidTel.

A name that didn't come up was Nathan Stratton who is at BlinkMind. The BlinkMind service uses the Grandstream GXV3000 Video Phone, which VidTel also uses.

It will be interesting to see where this goes because of the upstream bandwidth necessary for video telephony to work well.

"Videl is initially providing a plug-and-play, out of the box videophone solution built around GrandStream's GXV3000 video phone - the phone supports SIP, H.264, bandwidth from 32 Kbps to 1 Mbps, has a 5.6 inch TFTP LCD screen and VGA camera. [FierceVoIP]

I have tried services like Oovoo and SightSpeed with some disappointment. They are actually half-duplex - only one side can talk at a time. The video is choppy even on my BrightHouse 7MBx1MB connection.  Maybe I expect more at this point in time.

I would like to point out that many, many VoIP services that overlay on a Broadband connection have jitter, latency, low-quality service. And that's just audio, so I don't know what video will be like.

Also, since Oovoo is free and so is Skype - both of which do not require a $200 handset nor a separate monthly service - I have to wonder about the viability of the business model. Making it stupid easy for people to use and understand would certainly go along way in adoption though.



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I also wonder about the viability of that business model! BlinkMind has a totally different model, sure we offer the same VoIP features and peer to peer video calling, but that is just a start. People are buying our services for the value added video applications that we provide such as our 3 - 16 way video conferencing, video call recording, and video server, with much more on the way!

Oh did I mention that we build all of our technology in house? Sure we use BroadSoft as a basic feature server and Covergence for SBCs, but we design, build and own 100% of our video technology. This allows us to
add new features very quickly. As an example we offer video conference bridge controls from our web portal, but the customer wanted that extended so they could make 1 of the parties fill the full screen based on who was talking. It took less then 60 days to go from request to
production!

Peer to peer video calling has been done since 1962, we don't all have it because at the end of the day you need to be able to offer more. That is what BlinkMind, is about.

I also wonder about the viability of that business model! BlinkMind has a totally different model, sure we offer the same VoIP features and peer to peer video calling, but that is just a start. People are buying our services for the value added video applications that we provide such as our 3 - 16 way video conferencing, video call recording, and video server, with much more on the way!

Oh did I mention that we build all of our technology in house? Sure we use BroadSoft as a basic feature server and Covergence for SBCs, but we designed, built and own 100% of our video technology. This allows us to add new features very quickly. As an example we offer video conference bridge controls from our web portal, but the customer wanted that extended so they could make 1 of the parties fill the full screen based on who was talking. It took less then 60 days to go from request to production!

Peer to peer video calling has been done since 1962, we don't all have it because at the end of the day you need to be able to offer more. That is what BlinkMind, is about.

-Nathan

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