Telepresence Magic

Tagged with: cisco telepresence, unified communications

Mark Adams, 9 months ago

 I have always been a great fan of StarTrek in all it various forms, Star Trek, Deep Space Nine etc etc.In all of the shows the favourite way for the crew to communicate is to use Video Conferencing; talking to a large screen with no visible microphones, the system translating between languages if necessary all very easy to use and great quality. In fact you could always tell when Captain Kirk was going to have a problem the video quality of the communication link deteriorated !!However in real life Video Conferencing was expensive, difficult to use and really poor quality. These facts...

Jogging and Video

Mark Adams, 11 months ago

  I do a little bit of jogging in my spare time, mainly along in the Brighton and Hove seafront. In my opinion the most important article I use when jogging is my running shoes. Many years ago I tried many different manufacturers of running shoes and found the Nike shoes suited my feet. I have used them ever since.I recently made my annual pilgrimage to Niketown in London to buy a new pair of running shoes (Interesting that the actual number of styles of running shoes is tiny compared to the amount of Nike shoes they actually have in...

Mark Adams - A brief history, Part 2

Mark Adams, about 1 year ago

Continuing on from my initial blog..At the time there were very few manufacturers of Audio Conferencing Bridges, mainly US based. Spectel were unique in the fact that they were headquatered in Ireland. The Analogue bridges that they provided were excellent and could accomodate up to 8 Lines in a single 4 U Chassis. The initial market for conferencing bridges in the UK had been very bouyant as they were sold for Chat-Line applications, as always sex sells!By the time we entered the market the chat lines had become illegal so we sold the bridges to large Global Financial organisations. The bridges were great. They...