NETWORK WORLD ARTICLE: STEVE TAYLOR ON CONVERGENCE & VOIP ALERT 03/26/08 Up close and personal with telepresence By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick One of the most visible interest areas at last week's VoiceCon 2008 conference was the advances in and business uses of telepresence and IP-based video conferencing. While the actual definition of telepresence was as varied as the number of demonstrations, we will loosely define telepresence as interpersonal interactions that give participants the sense they are in the same location; telepresence relies on bi-directional high-quality audio and video systems to create the illusion of proximity.Read full story Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and of Webtorials. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this article, connect to Webtorials , the premier site for Web-based educational presentations, white papers, and market research. Taylor can be reached at Larry Hettick is a Principal Analyst at Current Analysis, the leading provider of competitive response solutions. A 25 year industry veteran, he has focused on Convergence and VoIP since 2000. This article is sponsored by Novell Ease IT workload, stress Discover how Novell ZENworks Configuration Management's policy-driven automation can manage, secure, track and improve your infrastructure. Learn how advanced systems management can lower TCO, ease updates and patches, secure endpoint devices, ports and removable storage drives, and more. Compare VoIP Monitoring and Analysis Products. Get side-by-side product comparisons, buying tips, market trend information, case studies and more with Network World's newly enhanced VoIP Monitoring, Analysis and Management Buyer's Guide. Visit now. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Slideshow: What's hot at VoiceCon Vendors are unleashing a variety of voice and video gear as well as communications software platforms at VoiceCon this week. Check out some of these announcements in this slideshow. Microsoft calls $300 high-def cam for masses, 03/18/08 Microsoft is working with Tandberg to deliver a $300 high-definition video camera by next year that it said will bring high-quality video conferencing to the masses. Bidding on VoIP systems is all about the details, 03/18/2008 VoIP systems vary in so many ways that businesses need to comb through the gory details of what vendors offer to make sure they get the features and functions they need, attendees were told at VoiceCon Orlando 2008. Avaya CEO calls for democratization of unified communications, 03/18/2008 Unified Communications needs to be brought to the masses, and in the process that can help solve the country's current economic woes, VoiceCon ... Extreme Networks, HP boost VoIP security, 03/17/08 Extreme Networks is coming out with more secure VoIP technology and fellow LAN switch maker HP ProCurve is announcing a partnership with Mitel at VoiceCon Orlando this week. Quanta, OoVoo are latest vendors to build consumer hi-def Quanta Computer, a contract maker of laptop computers is teaming with OoVoo, a maker of video chat software, to enable consumers to hook up their HDTVs and connect it to the Internet for HD video conferencing for everyone Microsoft announced that through its partnership with Tandberg it will deliver $300 high definition video cameras aimed at video conferencing, a concept aptly called HDVC. Microsoft's partnership with Polycom and Nortel will allow it to reach nearly three-fourths of the market with a budget solution, writes Microsoft Subnet blogger Alex Lewis. Cisco updates its employee blogging policy Does Cisco's new staff blogging policy muffle its workers? Cisco Subnet's Top 20 Cisco Press books: How do you rate them? Since we launched Cisco Subnet at the beginning of last year, we've been regularly posting exclusive chapters from new and classic Cisco Press books on our site (see our library here ). We've compiled the top 20 most-read Cisco Press book chapters as accessed by our readers over the year. What did you think of the book/chapter? Was it helpful in your job/career? Give your ratings for the top 20 books/chapters here . NEW BLOG: Considering Convergence Matthew Nickasch gets down and dirty with VoIP, looking at open-source software, management issues and much more. MARCH GIVEAWAYS: This month's giveaways from Microsoft Subnet and Cisco Subnet Microsoft Subnetis giving away a free training course worth up to $2,500 courtesy of New Horizons; your choice of cool gadgets courtesy of Global Knowledge; and 15 copies of the book Guide to Office 2007 Servers".Cisco Subnetis giving away to one lucky reader free access to Cisco training partner Tech 2000's CCNA Lab Simulator. Cisco Subnet also has 15 copies of the Cisco Press book "Cisco Networking Simplified, 2nd Edition" up for grabs. Go here for the entry instructions for all the competitions. TOP STORIES | MOST DUGG STORIES 1. Test: 10 Gig access switches 2. IRS' data warehouse to blame for audit 3. The FCC's top 10 hit list 4. 3Com OKs merger 5. IBM's top 5 predictions for UC 6. Why Lockdown Networks went belly up 7. Microsoft warns of new Word attack 8. Vista SP1: Threat or menace? 9. Intel stretches Wi-Fi to cover 60 miles 10. Hyper-V leaves Linux out in the cold 11. 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