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Lack of bandwidth, interoperability slow video collaboration adoption

by Roberta Prescott
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Video collaboration has not yet taken off around the globe, with the lack of bandwidth and interoperability holding back adoption, according to Damian Artt, Polycom’s president for the Americas region. However, this scenario is starting to change mostly because of LTE deployments.

“The issue with bandwidth is being solved by … LTE, and the interoperability issue is being solved by Polycom. Our solutions communicate with other solutions,” Artt said during a video interview.

Polycom is also using interoperability as a means to compete with its rivals, such as Cisco, Avaya and Siemens Enterprise Communications.

Artt was named the Polycom’s president for the Americas region in January, and one of his first actions was to visit Brazil. He went to the country at the beginning of March, when he talked with RCR Wireless News. “I am very focused on the top 20 economic companies of the Americas,” he said.

During the interview, he also commented about how the bring-your-own-device trend will increase mobile video adoption; the importance of the whole ecosystem, including mobile cloud; and how carriers can embrace video to offer value-added services.

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Editor, [email protected] Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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