Jason Meserve

Polycom this week took advantage of the Polycom User Group conference to announce products to support high-definition videoconferencing. High-definition video offers 10 times the resolution (number of pixels) as standard videoconferencing, meaning better picture clarity.

Polycom Inc. and Edgewater Networks Inc. have teamed to help users get over one of the biggest hurdles when it comes to IP videoconferencing adoption: Getting through firewalls and network address translation (NAT) systems unscathed.

Netspoke Inc., in effort to add streaming media technology to its conferencing portfolio, Monday acquired the software assets of e-StudioLive Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

Polycom Inc. next week is set to take the wraps off a software-only desktop video client that requires no special hardware, and a management appliance to simplify customer call scheduling and distribution of software updates to endpoints.

Two Web conferencing service providers, WebEx Communications Inc. and Genesys SA, separately are updating their applications to offer more features.

Those companies that want to have their own videoconferencing endpoints and related networking equipment in-house but don

Those companies that want to have their own videoconferencing endpoints and related networking equipment in-house but don

Codian Ltd., a U.K. startup, is joining the videoconferencing network fray with a multipoint control unit for letting users connect multiple H.323-based audio and video endpoints in one call. The product is scheduled to make its public debut next week at the Video Conference Summit in New York.