Conference: Video Conferencing Track
Video conferencing is rapidly becoming a standard communications tool for geographically diverse enterprises. Telepresence and HD video have dramatically increased the quality of the visual and audio experience. Desktop solutions are also emerging that allow individuals to participate in a video call from almost anywhere. But these technologies demand the highest quality support from the network and their combined bandwidth threatens to overwhelm existing applications. Nevertheless, video is here to stay. The Video Conferencing track will help enterprises sort through the myriad choices of video solutions from desktop to telepresence and also help the IT team understand how to manage the challenge that video transport presents for the enterprise network.
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Traditional video conferencing vendors and a set of recent market entries are pushing a wide variety of video conferencing solutions all the way from high end Telepresence suites to software solutions running on the PC desktop. Which technologies will provide the right communications solution for the needs of your enterprise? This session will propose a decision tree for sorting through the vendor offerings and hype and focusing on the right size, right bandwidth and right features to meet your visual communications needs. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
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Desktop video conferencing has traditionally consumed the PC, used up the screen real-estate and provided poor images. Has this technology evolved into a useful tool? What are the enterprise applications where desktop video can provide productivity enhancements or better customer interactions that justify its deployment? In this session we will quiz the desktop video vendors to see if we can rationalize deploying yet another complex application on the desktop. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Speaker - Scott Wharton, CEO, Vidtel Inc. Speaker - Bruce Zieper, Senior Manager, UC Alliances, Cisco Speaker - Philippe Schwartz, CEO, ooVoo Speaker - John Dye, Senior Product Manager, Avistar | |
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Video conferencing could be the toughest application your enterprise network has to support. It places significant bandwidth demands on the network, while simultaneously demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support an enterprise video conferencing deployment is critical to getting early positive feedback on using a video capability which will affect its acceptance as a business tool. This two hour session will look at the technical details of designing, testing and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence communications with deep dives into security, LAN QoS and WAN QoS issues. Moderator - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Speaker - William Choe, Director, Product Management, Ethernet Switching Technology Group, Cisco William Choe is the Director of Product Management for the Ethernet Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. In this position, Choe leads a team in the development of market leading fixed configuration Ethernet switching and energy management solutions for the mid-market, enterprise campus and data center. Choe is a fifteen-year Cisco veteran and has played a number of key roles in business strategy and product development across the company. This includes the development of Cisco’s first billion dollar fixed configuration product family, the Catalyst 3500XL platform. Choe was responsible for Senior Product Management of the Cisco ONS 15454, the central product of Cisco’s next generation optical networking platform. Prior to joining Cisco, Choe was an Engineer at Grand Junction Networks, which was acquired by Cisco in November 1995. At Grand Junction, he provided technical support and management of the company’s ground-breaking switched Ethernet and Fast Ethernet products.Choe received his Bachelor of Science from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California and his Masters of Business Administration from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Speaker - Matt Sherrod, Senior Director, Product Management, CA As Senior Director of Product Management for CA, Matt Sherrod helps define product direction and strategy for the company’s portfolio of integrated Service Assurance products that show how well the infrastructure is delivering business services. He spent the last eight years in a number of field and management positions at NetQoS, prior to its recent acquisition by CA. Previously, Sherrod spent ten years as the Director of Communications for ARCO Alaska, where he was responsible for delivering Voice, Video and Data services for the Alaskan Oilfields. His major projects included next-generation high-speed networking and Linux Beowulf supercomputing. Sherrod has a master’s degree in Management Information Systems and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Math/Statistics and Computer Science from Texas A&M University. Speaker - Mauricio Sanchez, Chief Security Architect, HP Speaker - Seamus Hourihan, VP of Marketing and Product Management, Acme Packet | |
