Recently Radvision presented a good Webinar titled "Voice and Video over IP Communications: Assessing and Improving User Experience."

Video deployment over IP is obviously experiencing a significant boom, but as you've not doubt noticed, the overall user experience does not always live up to expectations. 

Radvision experts discussed "unique, no-reference, video measurement and analysis algorithms," according to company officials, passing onto viewers ways to improve the user experience for voice and video over IP communications. 

Webinar speakers discussed factors that can affect video quality, different methodologies to measure video quality, Radvision's offerings in the area and other topics of interest.

According to presentations during the Webinar, the "expected Internet traffic volume for video calling in 2015 is 400 million TB." That's a lot of calling. And the market for IPTV video services will reach $26.3 billion by next year, 2011, and that's "not including advertising or value-added TV services."

Presenters included Eli Cohen, Radvision's director of product management, and the creator of the Radvision ProLab Testing Suite.

Cohen is primarily interested in creating and managing testing approaches for VoIP, 3G and video-quality-measurement algorithms. He's held various project management positions in Israel and France more than 11 years.

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NetForensics, a seller in the Security Information and Event Management market, has joined the Cisco Developer Network as a Registered Developer within the network security technology category.

Officials of netForensics nFX Cinxi One v4.1 also announced that the company completed interoperability testing with the Secure Borderless Networks system from Security Management.

Interoperability testing is designed to simulate typical customer configurations, and does not replace the need for on-site testing in conjunction with actual implementation.

This interoperability testing "helps ensure that netForensics nFX Cinxi One software easily interoperates with the following Cisco security products: ASA, IPS, IOS, ESA, WSA and CS-MARS," NetForensics officials say.  

The nFX Cinxi One product also works with Cisco ASR, Access Control Server, CSA, CSA , Management Center, CatOS, Firewall Service Module, IDS, IOS, PIX and VPN products. The product is billed as a way to help customers meet security business requirements, particularly around compliance and log management.

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Mobile video is on the rise - but how quickly is it being taken up in the United States? 

To address this issue, Dialogic's Video Marketing Manager Martyn Davies recently sat down for an interview with TMC's Marisa Torrieri, who was skeptical about mobile video's growth.

"I don't see much mobile video in the United States," Torrieri asked during the one-on-one podcast interview. "Where are these services in operation?"

It's a good question - and one Davies had a good answer for. 
 
"Actually the early adopters for 3G video have largely been in Asia, and also Central and Latin America is a hotspot for this right now," he said. "I think it's because most of the world started with GSM and fairly smoothly migrated to 3G based on UMTS."

Davies noted that "there's growing activity also in Europe and the Middle East" as well.

"Because the USA cut its own path with wireless technology, and also because of the vast geography, the switch to 3G has been a painful one. For a local example you need to look north to Canada, where Bell Mobility have been using video to promote their new 3G/HSPA network," Davies said. "Using a Facebook app you can make a PC to mobile video call at the click of a button. Bell Mobility users get unlimited video calling to 3G mobiles for a flat-rate of $5 per month."

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Market research firm Infonetics Research has released the first edition of its biannual 2010 Ethernet and IP MPLS VPN Services report, which "tracks service provider revenue derived from wholesale and retail Ethernet services and layer 2 and layer 3 IP MPLS VPN services," according to Infonetics officials.

The worldwide IP MPLS VPN and Ethernet services markets continued growing throughout the economic downturn in 2009 as companies gravitated to the efficiency and cost-cutting features of these services.

Worldwide, service providers generated $20.8 billion from Ethernet services in 2009, a 23 percent jump from 2008.

Michael Howard, co-founder and principal analyst of Infonetics Research, called Carrier Ethernet Exchanges "an important new development" that facilitate Ethernet connections and "accelerate the move to Ethernet transport and services."

How do the exchanges work? A service provider pays a fee to a Carrier Ethernet Exchange to make it easy for them to locate, buy, and provision Ethernet connections from other service providers. This in turn "jump-starts more Ethernet services and more of the IP VPN services that ride on Ethernet transport," Infonetics officials explained. 

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