Logitech life-size Division expects to sense unique video streaming to Android devices in a few months and to introduce a system of two-way videoconferencing of tablets and smartphones later this year.
Appliance of video size of the business centre can already stream Apple iOS-based meetings and another video of the company to iPads and other devices. Software for Android development was more complicated, in part because there are different versions of this OS, but an Android version is imminent, life-size CEO Craig Malloy said in an interview Tuesday. The company is also in first discussions with Research In Motion BlackBerry software, he said.
Life-size hopes to capitalize on trends in video conferencing for the company, including services based on clouds and mobility, remain competitive and deliver on the growth of demand for companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Malloy said. Although the names of blue chip such as Cisco and HP have bought high in enterprise video, life-sized believe that it benefits by being owned by Logitech, a company rooted in devices such as webcams consumption.
Tablets, smartphones and PCs is expanding to the public for the video of the company, leading to deployments to reach thousands of potential users, in a large organization, said Eric Kintz, Director General of the Logitech recently trained for the business division. The challenge with these deployments gets people to use the tools after that they were made available in all of the Organization, something many Logitech, said.
To address the growing ranks of users of iPhone and iPad, February life-size expanded its video Center to distribute streams live and recorded training sessions, meetings and Executive messages from devices using iOS. But the company acknowledged that it seeks also to two-way participation and other mobile platforms.
"There is no true enterprise-class, connected, called video smartphone, has declared Malloy." Who will become the new part wider of the [video communications] market, then it is today PCs and laptops. »
Last month, full-scale welcomes mobile and other users in its videoconferencing system based on Passport room by integration of Skype in a free software update. A few weeks later, Microsoft said that it would acquire Skype for $ 8.5 billion. It is still not clear how that might affect the relationship grandeur nature-Skype, said Malloy.
"It will probably be." Us do not know how yet, "Malloy said." We are not sure exactly what Microsoft will do with Skype. Our sense is that they will be left as a consumer, because they already have with Microsoft Lync significant traction in the enterprise. »
In any event, the acquisition of big names is likely to mark a leap forward in the awareness and demand for the video, he added. "However, it is played, we believe that it will be good for us.
Life-size is already working with Microsoft products to Skype. Lync of Microsoft is a key element of the full-size strategy to integrate its offerings of videos with unified communications platforms broader, said Malloy.
In the longer term, the cloud-based services will send video to the largest number of companies and SMEs and SMIs, life-size is well positioned to take advantage of this trend, said Malloy. Cloud-based video takes advantage of the infrastructure centralized for clients only, clients need to thin enough and inexpensive to take part and have not to worry about complex installation as the crossing of firewall issues, said. This should establish a system of video conferencing much as the installation of a loudspeaker on model, which can be plugged into a standard telephone and automatically deliver tone, said Malloy.
Life-size is well placed to offer these services, in part because of the acquisitions of the company mother Logitech SightSpeed video chat service and firewall and NAT (network address translation) crossed software provider Paradial, said Kintz. Logitech already operates a service of video chat based on clouds for consumers, called Logitech Vid, which is hosted in data centers around the world, and offered with webcams of its consumers.
Stephen Lawson covers mobile technologies, storage and networking for the IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at sdlawsonmedia @. Stephen e-mail address is stephen_lawson@idg.com
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