Last year I went to InfoComm on a mission to find ten solutions I considered disruptive in the market, and it didn’t take long to find them at the show as many of them existed in the realm of unified communications and collaboration — a market well-known now for disruption in itself. This year however, […]

One thing I planned on doing at InfoComm 2015 was devoting some time to social media, especially Twitter. I personally tweeted out numerous times from the show — here are a few of them: On my way in to the show, day one: At the Sennheiser booth ready to do an interview, day one: At […]

It all began for me about 15 years ago in my AV integration sales days (even though I had worked in the AV and IT markets since 1991) when Tandberg and Polycom were of course the main brands for integrated as well as stand-alone hardware-based videoconferencing systems. This continued on of course until 2010, when […]

I have been attending InfoComm since back in Dallas in ’95 where I “discovered” the AV industry (and first saw the famous projection shootout), however at InfoComm 2015 I did something I haven’t had the opportunity to do yet at any InfoComm, and that was to tour the floor with a rAVe mic in hand. […]

I am writing this blog to talk about our podcast show that took place at InfoComm, which was in the end nothing short of a grand slam as we had achieved exactly what we had all been looking forward to doing – a tremendous AV Power Up! show at InfoComm 2015, which I had called […]

Over the last several years we’ve seen the realm of Unified Communications and Collaboration grow exponentially, with new players consistently entering the market and building on technologies in cloud computing, virtualization, mobility/BYOD as well as providing extensive interoperability and integration with Microsoft Lync/Skype for Business. Certain companies, which had existed as long-standing entities in the AV […]

As we move closer to InfoComm 2015, the terms that many of us heard (and used as well) last year are already dominating conversation again. If you’re not considering yourself revolutionary and even disruptive at this point heading into the show, maybe it’s time to start spending longer hours in the meeting room figuring out […]

Global events, data, analyst predictions and future trends — the Internet of Things has continued to capture our attention as we speed endlessly toward a mass “connected things” world…. Facts, trends and market expertise driving the numbers. The future predicted and re-predicted — depending of course on which market source and/or expert you follow. And […]

In 2014, the realm of unified communications and collaboration expanded in the AV industry like it never had before. As we look beyond the entities in audio visual that have tended to become household names, we see others with a global footprint that provide solutions and services both in and outside the mainstream. While such focus to business […]

In my previous blog A New Model for the Device Driven Enterprise about enterprise apps being written specifically for Apple Watch usage, I linked to an article from September 2014 Apple Watch: The Internet of Things’ new frontier where (InfoWorld’s executive editor) Galen Gruman stated that “Apple’s new Apple Watch — to be released in early 2015 and […]

While on Twitter looking in on the AVTweeps hashtag, I spotted this: It appears that InfoComm was inspired by the #AVtvShow hashtag (where you create a TV show using AV lingo) to post this tweet and in turn, this spurred a bit of inspiration for me to write this blog. Reportedly one of the hot topics from last year’s […]

While I wasn’t one of the many who rushed to pre-order it on April 10, those that did led Apple to sell out of the most coveted device to hit the market in quite some time in a single day — the Apple Watch. In fact, it was reported that in that one day, Apple […]

After what I considered a highly successful trip to Enterprise Connect last month as media for rAVe, it’s time to turn focus to InfoComm and UCC in the audio visual space. When you consider the realm of Unified Communications and Collaboration, it is no doubt one of the (if not the) most visible sectors of […]

For those of you music fans who may know of the following album cover art… …you may not know that it’s an image modified from an existing photograph of the inner barrel of a particle physics detector, an experiment built on the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle collider at the European […]

I wrote a blog back in September of last year, con·ver·gence, which began this way: The premise of AV and IT convergence is simple, two separate realms of technology come together as a single entity to expand the industry’s capabilities to satisfy full-scale technology needs of the end user. In this day and age the […]

Note: Chuck Espinoza, CTS-D/I,CQT,ISF-C,DMC-E,EAVA is a co-contributor to this blog article (where noted). After being through the bidding and install job competition wars for over 15 years in the AV industry, I can safely say that I along with others who have written blogs and articles have some great (and frustrating) stories to tell. Many of […]

Day two of the Enterprise Connect show provided more excellent experiences with companies specializing in providing unified communications and collaboration solutions. Here are the booth videos from the second day. AGT AGT has improved the way organizations communicate and collaborate for over 20 years. Our passion for technical innovation, visual communication and customer service – […]

I conducted interviews with several UCC industry executives at the Enterprise Connect Show – here are two from day two: Pexip: CEO Simen Teigre Blue Jeans Network: Product Marketing Manager Jeff Beckham

In a first time experience as a media representative at a major enterprise trade show focused on collaboration, it was my goal to interview executives of companies across the collaboration space and there were some very good ones. However to begin I wanted to post this video interview that I conducted with one of the […]

Welcome to the newest rAVe Radio podcast show with that group of techie comics you’ve come to know (and like a lot) who we now call the “AV Power Crew”: Corey (@Cbmoss) Moss, Chuck (@madsoundguy) Espinoza, Hope (@BeerAndPie) Roth, Johnny (@JMOTA3) Mota and your host Christa (@AVChrista) Bender. This show, they welcome: Cory Schaeffer of […]

Enterprise Connect delivers a unique opportunity for enterprise end users to meet the industry’s thought and market-leaders and hear comprehensive analyses of the products, technologies and applications that are — or soon will be — in the market. Unified communications, WebRTC, video, wireless, contact centers, the cloud and more make up the focus of Enterprise […]

I conducted interviews with several UCC industry executives at the Enterprise Connect Show – here are three from day one: Polycom: Interview with Executive Vice President of Engineering Michael Frendo Videxio: Interview with CEO Tom-Erik Lia Corvisa: Interview with President Matt Lautz  

In attending the Enterprise Connect Show, I was sent numerous invites from PR and Marketing Directors to conduct interviews, stop by booths to be briefed on company solutions and more. While you will have seen solutions from numerous AV and IT solutions providers in my blogs on the show, here are some others that might […]

This past week, I attended the Enterprise Connect show in Orlando Florida as an invited media representative for rAVe, my first experience of this kind. I have been to many AV, IT, mobile and cyber security trade shows as an attendee, however my perspective from the side of a media representative created a whole new […]

Kelly Perkins, CTS is the marketing and communications manager at AVI Systems, a well-known integrator in the Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. She began her AV marketing career with Vaddio, a well-known industry manufacturer. In 2014, after six years with Vaddio, she went on to join AVI Systems where she has had a major impact […]

When you look at certain individuals who have been influential in the audio visual industry, there are those who have contributed in numerous high level ways. Gary Hall is certainly one of those individuals who has made major contributions and continues to be held in high regard by many in the industry. Along with being […]

At times when considering topics for blogs, I may refer to information from articles and whitepapers that I read on a weekly basis. I’ll put the topics on paper and when I see something that I consider worth writing about, it eventually becomes a published blog. For this blog however, my idea came from a recent visit […]

In 2014, the realm of unified communications and collaboration expanded in the AV industry like it never had before where industry stalwarts in videoconferencing hardware manufacturing truly began to give way to numerous newer market technologies in cloud computing and virtual machine (VM). Where hardware was once the only answer for companies like Cisco/Tandberg, over the last […]

I have had the pleasure of knowing quite a few influencers in the audio visual industry, young innovators to CEOs and other executives from manufacturers, solutions providers, integrators and more across the world. To many, the success of an industry can only be attained through the efforts of those that have the ability to make […]

Tory Holmwood, CTS is a service sales account manager at Advanced AV, a well-known integrator in the greater Philadelphia area of Pennsylvania. She began her career with Advanced AV as a project coordinator and then a project manager from 2007 to 2013, then went on to work for Scala, a digital signage software company, as […]

In the AV business, technology in the K-12 classroom has been defined in many different ways. From interactive technologies to educational software, manufacturers and solutions providers have provided educators the basis for students to not only learn and grow in a formative manner, but technologically as well. The need for children to move toward a greater understanding […]

A question was posed to and answered by a well-known person in the videoconferencing and collaboration industry and here is what Simon Dudley, the Video Evangelist for Lifesize had to say to the following: How Will Demand for Video Conferencing Evolve in 2015? The demise of the cubicle – and the rise of open floor […]