by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing ~ Frequently I get asked what the scope of options are for enterprises seeking to implement business-grade video conferencing. As an introduction, I’ll address a few broad options here: 1) Manage video conferencing internally / do-it-yourself 2) Outsource to “white-gloved” provider 3) Cloud-based video conferencing service (Vidtel) Let’s [...]
by Scott Wharton, CEO, Vidtel ~ The NY Times featured an article profiling a security expert hacking into video conferencing systems around the globe at some of the largest companies, causing quite a stir. For us, this was a long time coming. For many years, we’ve questioned the prevailing method for deploying video conferencing gear. [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing ~ Patients in remote areas are often unable to easily reach medical specialists, relying instead on primary care physicians for treatment. What happens when video conferencing brings patients to specialists? A staggering 98% of dermatology video consultations in a University of California study of 1500 patients resulted in [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing ~Lately my inbox has been bulging with congratulations on hiring industry veteran Brian Coulter as VP of Sales. Brian brings quite a unique blend of service provider, video conferencing, telecom, big company, startup and channel sales experience to us. He’s already hitting the ground running with our channel [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Just recently a research study reported that 50% of all mobile bandwidth is consumed by a measly 1% of mobile users, evidently with unlimited or very generous mobile data plans. Wireless operators will need to step their game as more bandwidth consumption from mobile applications will be hitting [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing For too long, the small-medium enterprise (SME) market has effectively been squeezed out of business video conferencing with solutions that are either too expensive or too low in quality. Vidtel’s cloud video conferencing service is designed to change all that. To reach our target market, we are linking [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Small-medium enterprises are beginning to demand a more affordable approach to enterprise-level video conferencing, one that doesn’t require a lot of upfront expense and IT overhead. Resellers focusing on meeting the managed services, audio-visual communications and VoIP needs of their customers are looking around for ways to meet [...]
By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing With the accessibility of video conferencing and video chat at the desktop level, more and more business people are experimenting and gaining comfort with the technology. With this experience comes greater demand for ease of use, performance and interoperability. No longer are small-medium sized enterprises willing to let [...]
by Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing Today, Vidtel and InFocus publicly announced our strategic partnership and distribution agreement. Our partnership breaks ground in the middle market for business-grade video conferencing with a killer solution: The combination of InFocus’ 55-inch collaborative wall tablet (the Mondopad) and Vidtel’s price-disruptive any-to-any video conferencing service. The Mondopad was [...]