IP Multimedia Featured Article

Radvision Webinar Reveals IPTV Market Trends and Ways to Improve User Experience

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Recently Radvision (News - Alert) presented a good Webinar titled "Voice and Video over IP Communications: Assessing and Improving User Experience."

Video deployment over IP is obviously experiencing a significant boom, but as you've not doubt noticed, the overall user experience does not always live up to expectations.

Radvision experts discussed "unique, no-reference, video measurement and analysis algorithms," according to company officials, passing onto viewers ways to improve the user experience for voice and video over IP communications. 

Webinar speakers discussed factors that can affect video quality, different methodologies to measure video quality, Radvision's offerings in the area and other topics of interest.

According to presentations during the Webinar, the "expected Internet traffic volume for video calling in 2015 is 400 million TB." That's a lot of calling. And the market for IPTV (News - Alert) video services will reach $26.3 billion by next year, 2011, and that's "not including advertising or value-added TV services."

Presenters included Eli Cohen, Radvision's director of product management, and the creator of the Radvision ProLab Testing Suite. C

ohen is primarily interested in creating and managing testing approaches for VoIP, 3G and video-quality-measurement algorithms. He's held various project management positions in Israel and France more than 11 years.

Tamar Barzuza, the Senior Algorithmic Researcher for Radvision, also presented during the Webinar. She has nearly ten years of experience in developing algorithms for media, media communication and media quality, and she's been with Radvision since 2000. During that time she's participated in developing such technologies as SIP signaling, and 3DPresence conferencing.

Barzuza has also worked on the research on Video Quality and Video Quality algorithms.

Carl Ford (News - Alert), Community Developer 4GWE for Crossfire Media, gave a presentation during the Webinar that focused on the impact of communications technology on consumers and industry. He's been highlighting initiatives around the advances of the commercial Internet since "the beginning," according to Radvision officials.

David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David's articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri