InfoComm Walk Through
July 8, 2009
This year’s InfoComm was not quite long enough, we were just getting warmed up over at the Teliris booth with our typical in-your-face, leave nothing to your imagination marketing campaign….if you have read my posts before, then you are definitely not surprised to hear that our efforts (I can’t deny it was all my idea) were aimed to hit Cisco directly in the face…I just could not resist, they make it way too easy!! Check out the banner from our booth below and yes it was in fact facing directly into Cisco’s booth! Ohhhh it kept such a smile on my face, especially every time an attendee laughed out loud long and hard.
Teliris Banner at InfoComm
So let me set the scene – my company, Teliris, launched what we believe is the BIGGEST leap for telepresence yet, and we came equipped with the product line to show it…we announced our 6G platform which basically allows telepresence for the first time to reach anywhere, everywhere, whenever…thats a pretty big statement but make no mistake its true…and how do we do this you may wonder? Well, very simply – over any general purpose network…yup, no more heavy, monolithic, QoS/CoS networks required and with that comes a HUGE cost reduction…when I say huge, I mean a 40% reduction in network costs.
So back to the show setup (although don’t miss my latest video entry for a walkthrough of our booth) we brought a wide array of product with us, we had it all – desktop, one, two, three screen systems placed around the booth with live people coming in from the UK, NYC, CT etc. And what did Cisco show?…well, they had some really comfy black leather couches, so I can’t be totally critical…other than that, they featured one single screen system. Thats it. Nothing else. Done. As i said, sometimes its just tooooo easy! Hold on to the handrails for my next entry…as I said, we are just getting started.
6G Telepresence
June 17, 2009
Visit www.teliris.com to read more about Teliris’ simple, affordable, agile new telepresence platform. I’ll be posting footage of the press conference and InfoComm soon, so keep checking back!
InfoComm
June 17, 2009
InfoComm starts today! Stay tuned for a very big announcement this morning and check out the LIVE webcam to watch the press conference and the Teliris booth (3573 for those of you at the show)!
http://www.teliris.com/6G-Teliris-Telepresence-Infocomm-Webcast
Telepresence & the Economy
January 22, 2009
We are all asking, and being asked, the same question – whether you lead a company, work for a corporation or even if you are self employed – everyone wants to know how others are faring in the economic hardships facing the world today. Certainly, we are all hopeful as we watched the inauguration of a new US president that things will turn around, but it doesn’t stop us as professionals in all sorts of businesses to hunker down, lay low and plan for the possibility of a long extension of an already long downturn. The interesting thing is that some assume that telepresence initiatives might be cut back as companies decrease capital expenditures. I decided to post about it because thats the thing about telepresence – we are in the business of SAVING companies money and finally that core fact has been understood and embraced!
Frost & Sullivan Telepresence Challenge Replay
November 20, 2008
If you didnt get a chance to dial in for the Frost & Sullivan Telepresence Challenge, we recorded it here. All the major players participated, with the exception of Cisco, so we heard from Joe Sigrist from Polycom, Hakon Dahle from Tandberg, Aaron McCormack from BT, and Ken Krangle from HP and obviously myself representing Teliris.
Frost & Sullivan Telepresence Challenge
November 18, 2008
I cant lie, I am really looking forward to an all out telepresence sparring match this Wed. Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan is hosting a webinar for all us fellow telepresence vendors to talk shop and though I’m sure this does not come as a shock for all of you that have been reading my blog, but I love nothing better than a good argument! In fact I think I thrive on it, so log onto www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=52387&pc=FSBT this Wed at noon and listen in. Although its interesting that Cisco conveniently declined to participate…what are they so afraid of if they are so sure they are leading the telepresence market???
The Next Big Leap
October 15, 2008
So here it is, the next big technology leap for telepresence – the world’s first multi-touch surface computing environment for telepresence that has real business applications (and real business value!). Yes, I know you probably already saw that this entry is over eight minutes long – what can I say, I can talk faster than any motor-mouthed New Yorker and this time I didnt even come up for air until minute eight. But I digress…I promised I would talk futures so let’s dive in. I am and have always been a technology dreamer. My bookcase is filled with titles like ‘Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach’ and ‘Society of the Mind’ – yup, I know that most people would consider this B-O-R-I-N-G. But to me, titles such as these are the basis for a long string of ideas (some more successful than others) that I run through at marathon pace and hope that my Teliris Telepresence Research Labs team can keep up and help me mature my thoughts into fully formed reality. One particular member of my team, interestingly enough the one who has been with me the longest, said ‘your dreams become my nightmares’ and after I laughed hard for a few minutes I realized its TRUE!
Teliris TouchTable on BMighty.com
October 9, 2008
Check out what Fredric Paul wrote about our TouchTable technology over at BMighty.com.
Tandberg T3 Reaction
September 19, 2008
As you get to know me, you will find there is NOTHING that excites me more than poking my competitors. Call it competitive, slightly biased and certainly not playing by the corporate rules, but why have a blog if you can’t say what you’re thinking? So today, I cannot keep quiet for one more second on an announcement that Tandberg will apparently make on Monday on their latest and greatest telepresence product. It’s not that I am intent on preempting their announcement or ruining their PR plans for Monday, its that this newest release is one more example of the ongoing problem for the telepresence industry today – ITS NOT TRUE TELEPRESENCE. Yes, it has the life-size images, HD video, the same look and feel in all the rooms, but they have constructed an artificial environment. Don’t get me wrong, the Tandberg Experia T3 has a sleek and cool physique – meaning the tables and chairs are stylish in the truest Euro sense of the word, the table is connected to the screens, there is apparently a blue light both in front and in back that give that 3D feel (kind of makes me think of the 60’s…) and when you first look at it you cant help but think wow!
Podcast – Where does telepresence fit?
August 28, 2008
Listen here to learn more about how to implement telepresence. When it’s done right, it can change the way a company does business.
