My plan of posting throughout the day yesterday at the Wainhouse Summit went by the wayside when my laptop’s battery died and I was out of reach of an outlet.
I am taking in the final day of the Summit remotely via a Webcast from Glowpoint. The audio quality is excellent and the video is serviceable. Some of the slides aren’t coming through, but that’s only a minor annoyance.
Couple notes I’ve picked up so far:
David Isenberg on QoS as a means of improving IP video: “I am a big believer in throwing more bandwidth at it [the problem] rather than crapping up the middle of the network with QoS.”
The number of institutions offering content for remote learning to K-12 students has grown exponentially over the past few years, according to Jan Zanetis, director of the Virtual School of Vanderbilt University. Zanetis said that 5 years ago, there were only a dozen or so museums offering up content. Today, the are some 300 historical groups, scientific organizations and museums serving up ready-made content for remote learning.
To promote the usefulness of videoconferencing back in 1994, Edgar Riozzi, a network consultant at The Hartford, dressed as Santa and sat in front of an endpoint connected over the network to a unit in the lobby of the building. When people strolled by, there were able to chat and see Santa.
Best definition for an acronym goes to Riozzi for explaining ISDN: “I still don’t know” what it means.
Another excellent quote from Wainhouse’s Andrew Davis, reacting the amount of hand-holding that goes on with setting up video calls for employees at Bristol Myers Squibb: “I find it depressing that people who are developing our next generation drugs cannot dial a 4-digit number.” 
