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Are you looking for an efficient and user-friendly video analytics solution that can identify people and objects, monitor behaviors, and flag unusual actions? Software can automatically detect suspicious behavior such as intrusion detection, loitering, suspicious object detection, movement, crowd surveillance, an injured person, and running detection. The human becomes an information source. You can go further and include identifying a person or vehicle or object. Video analytics software can be applied to automatic behavior detection in law enforcement and disaster situations. Video analytics can complement the data collected from Internet of Things devices to complete the analysis.

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Kurt Jacobs, Director IoT Solutions for NEC www.necam.com  and Gary Audin discuss the use video analytics in the IoT environment at the NEC Advantage conference. Kurt demonstrated a video analysis tool that can be used in a multiple number of situations such retail customer surveillance, to sell a product/service or criminal activity, law enforcement, and identification. He goes on to discuss the IoT market which is bigger for industrial and enterprise applications that the consumer market. I thought one of the best uses was to apply facial recognition as your password.

Under the brand statement, "Orchestrating a brighter world," NEC Group is focusing on Solutions for Society businesses that utilize the strengths of ICT to create the social value of safety, security, efficiency, and equality that is necessary for people to live more prosperous lives. NEC provides IT solutions to meet private-sector demand, centering on manufacturing and retail/services, while launching new services to help create new value for customers. NEC accelerates development in retail distribution infrastructure in particular, both in Japan and overseas. Watch a video “Common video analysis platform for efficient video surveillance”     http://www.nec.com/en/global/onlinetv/en/event/video_analysis.html

Do you want a vendor specific or vendor neutral Unified Communications solution? In today’s environment you want a software defined solution not based on a specific hardware platform. Therefore you need to find software that is interoperable with any platform. Wouldn’t it be great to move the same software and user experience to new hardware as you retire the old hardware or scale to a larger operation.You should have a call control agnostic solution.

Hardy Myers, CEO and President of AVST www.avst.com and Gary Audin discuss software only UC solutions in this podcast recorded at the NEC Advantage conference. Hardy speaks of the trend of software UC solutions and their flexibility to operate on many platforms.

UC solutions should include flexible and secure unified messaging, speech-based call processing, contextually aware personal assistant, powerful UC mobile clients, and advanced notification and information access solutions that integrate with the databases of your organization.

The broadest interoperability suite in the communications industry serves as the foundation of our best-of-breed UC solutions. By connecting new and existing communications technologies, AVST facilitates the migration of your enterprise to the Cloud, IP, and Microsoft Skype4B. AVST maintains relationships with virtually all of the major premise and cloud communications technology providers to ensure that your UC solutions and your business are always “future-proofed.”

See more at: http://www.avst.com/company/index.asp#sthash.fLk1vRf2.dpuf

Rajant expands operations into the coal country of Eastern Kentucky while helping employ interns, retrained coal workers and obtaining costs lower than those from China

Rajant’s CEO, Bob Schena, explains the process of moving manufacturing operations to eastern Kentucky to establish a manufacturing facility with lower costs than China to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News from TelecomReseller. Bob describes the process of his introduction to eastern Kentucky and how the evaluation process evolved. The Morehead State University was influential in the decision since they have a state of the art technology and science department as well as having programs available for retraining of local coal workers.

MOBILITY

A Living Network™ Infrastructure.

What is a Living Network™ infrastructure? It’s ever-evolving to meet new or changing business and connectivity demands. Rajant makes Living Network™ infrastructure possible with its Kinetic Mesh™ network, creating a fully mobile wireless network that dynamically reacts to and optimizes for physical surroundings and frequency availability – all in real-time.

PRODUCTIVITY

Create the Network that Works for You.

A Rajant Kinetic Mesh™ network provides much more than connectivity – it brings mobility, performance, reliability, and flexibility that is unmatched by other broadband and mesh offerings, turning your network into a strategic, highly productive asset.

AGILITY

Adapt Seamlessly to Changing Environments & Demands.

Rajant Kinetic Mesh™ networks optimize coverage between all fixed and mobile assets, even as network characteristics change – whether nodes are added, subtracted, or dynamically shifted across large areas, it adapts to ensure your data remains highly available.

http://www.rajant.com/

In a UC comnuntiy that has become perhaps too comfortable with "bad" VoIP, pathSolutions is leading an all out effort to inform and educate IT professionals about the issue, and to supply them with a solution. In this podcast Tim Titus walks us through how three presentations at this week's Avaya Engage, a recent report his company is making available and discusses in general how quality issues can impact  a whole business. Here's a spoiler alert: the solution isn't necessarily throwing "gobs" of bandwidth at the problem.

By Gary Audin

You have an on-premises system, and are augmenting it with cloud UC&C services. Or, you may be migrating to UC&C cloud services which have distinct economic and operational advantages. In either case, you will have to manage two platforms that service your users within a hybrid environment. These platforms have different management interfaces, different dashboards, different analytics, and deliver services differently, presenting challenges to your operations staff.  But, your users don’t care how you deliver UC&C, they want one uniform and seamless operation, anytime and everywhere.  How do you deliver the expected user experience?

This EDUcast focuses on the issues, challenges, and solutions required to successfully manage hybrid UC&C. Perry King, Director of Product Management for Tone Software www.tonesoft.com and Gary Audin discuss the operational problems, along with the visibility and control necessary to manage the evolving hybrid UC&C architecture in this EDUcast.

What you will learn in the EDUcast:

Why Hybrid UC&C?

Hybrid’s Impact on Operations

Delivering Service Assurance

Analyzing Solutions

Real Time Knowledge and Analytics

ReliaTel by Tone Software www.tonesoft.com ensures top Unified Communications and Collaboration quality, performance and service levels for today’s hybrid business communications environments. The ReliaTel UC&C Management software incorporates deep-dive VoIP QoS analysis and call quality assurance with comprehensive, platform-agnostic, UC&C performance and infrastructure management.

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Studies are showing a connection between productivity and sound. As modern office abandon cubicles and walls, and the office is often a modified bedroom, noise is a growing issue at work. This means workers are increasingly looking for noise reduction both in what they are experiencing and in what they would share during a call. One study found that productivity gains of 8 to 38 %, stress reduction of up to 27 %, and job satisfaction increases of 125 to 174 % when some form of “sound masking” is applied.

In this podcast Bill Whearty, Vice President, Sales and Marketing Contact Center and Office for Sennheiser Electronic walks us through what Sennheiser is offering the Unified Communications space in terms of products that help both the workers and their customers. Whearty also talks about Sennheiser’s DevConnect partnership with Avaya and the importance of using products designed for Avaya compatibility for users of Avaya and Avaya Legacy platforms.

Visit http://en-us.sennheiser.com/headsets

By Gary Audin

You want to build revenue. You want to accelerate time-to- market for new services. You want to embed communications in for example, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or in a sales application or remote healthcare application, what next? Constructing these on top of a PCaaS reduces up-front costs and lowers risk. You can also reduce your cash flow if your PCaaS is a pay as you go model. Even if the new application is unsuccessful, it is much easier to modify with a PCaaS and the lost revenue is limited.

Dr. Natasha Tamaskar, VP and Head of Cloud Strategy at Genband https://www.kandy.io/ and Gary Audin discuss what a PCaaS is and how its cost model and agility make it attractive to service providers and enterprises. She speaks about the marketing and sales staff enthusiasm for PCaaS but she also points that the sales and marketing staffs have to modify their mind sets to take advantage of the rapid time-to-market capabilities. She also discusses how Kandy is adaptable to cultural and geographic conditions that may favor text over voice or may limit the use of video.

GENBAND is a global leader in real time communications software solutions for service providers, enterprises, independent software vendors, systems integrators, and developers in over 80 countries. Its Network Modernization, Unified Communications, Mobility, and Embedded Communications solutions enable customers to capitalize on growing market segments and introduce differentiating products, applications, and services. The company’s comprehensive solutions suite empowers its customers to enrich their service offerings with real time contextual communications, providing a richer, more engaging user experience.

For more information, visit www.genband.com

By Gary Audin

The interest and migration of Unified Communications (UC) to the cloud has grown rapidly. In the past, there were multiple servers, one or more per media. There are still multiple identities for a single user. The cloud can make these problems transparent to the user. The lack of standards, especially for identification can hamper the use of UC because there is little federation among UC platforms. Working with a common cloud service can mitigate these problems.

Greg Zweig, Director, Solutions Marketing at Genband www.genband.com and Gary Audin discuss the movement to the cloud for UC and its attractions in this podcast recorded at Genband’s Perspectives 16 conference. Greg speaks to the issues surrounding the support of a UC premises solution. He points out that the time-to-service can be lengthy and specialist staff are necessary for an on premises system. The specialized staff is also retiring with few trained as replacements. The cloud reduces both issues. The Fring alliance https://www.genband.com/media-center/press-releases/genband-fring-create-massive-over-top-ott-alliance-global-communications among service providers reduces the user identity problem.

GENBAND is a global leader in real time communications software solutions for service providers, enterprises, independent software vendors, systems integrators, and developers in over 80 countries. Its Network Modernization, Unified Communications, Mobility, and Embedded Communications solutions enable customers to capitalize on growing market segments and introduce differentiating products, applications, and services. The company’s comprehensive solutions suite empowers its customers to enrich their service offerings with real time contextual communications, providing a richer, more engaging user experience.

For more information, visit www.genband.com

By Gary Audin

Don’t dismiss the hotel or hospital room phone. It does more than you think. How about Bluetooth connectivity? Need a USB charger? Want to listen to streaming music? New generation hospitality telephones do everything that you expect and more. For the guest, there are new forms of service access as well as emergency services. 911 is still important. You can have a 911 button for instant emergency access on the phone. For the hotelier, there are new revenue streams. Good hotel service and amenities produce loyal customers by providing the right desktop telephone.

David Johnson, Senior Sales Director for Cetis www.cetis.com and Gary Audin discuss the hospitality telephone market in this podcast recorded at the NEC Advantage conference. The discussion covers the range of telephone capabilities and their impact on the guest and the hotelier.

Cetis, Inc., www.cetis.com formed through the 2006 merger of Scitec and TeleMatrix, and the 2009 acquisition of Teledex assets, designs and manufactures a broad range of analog and VoIP hotel phones. In 1982 they introduced Teledex Diamond Series, the first hotel phones with programmable guest service keys and a customizable faceplate area. Today, Diamond Series continue to be recognized as the most popular hotel phones in the world. Since 1982, hundreds of Cetis channel partners have installed more than 30 million Cetis hotel phones at 100,000 locations globally.

By Gary Audin

Traditionally hardware has been assigned to specific network functions. What if there is a failure? What if the traffic requirements change in real time? Are all the network hardware components used efficiently? How does the network change as users and customers are added or deleted? The ability to keep up with varying network requirements in real time requires a software not a hardware approach. This is the reason for Network Function Virtualization (NFV).

Sanjay Bhatia, VP for Solutions and Marketing Strategies at Genband www.genband.com and Gary Audin discuss the functions, deployment, benefits, and values of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). This podcast was recorded at Genband’s Perspectives 16 conference. NFV deliver agility to the network by treating the community of hardware machines as a total resource. This is beyond virtualization within a machine. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is the complimentary method for driving and managing NFV. If you want to know more about NFV and its impact, this is the podcast for you.

GENBAND is a global leader in real time communications software solutions for service providers, enterprises, independent software vendors, systems integrators, and developers in over 80 countries. Its Network Modernization, Unified Communications, Mobility, and Embedded Communications solutions enable customers to capitalize on growing market segments and introduce differentiating products, applications, and services. The company’s comprehensive solutions suite empowers its customers to enrich their service offerings with real time contextual communications, providing a richer, more engaging user experience.

For more information, visit www.genband.com