Kaleidoscope Videoconferencing

A recent New York Times article–”Cameras May Open Up the Board Room to Hackers“–outlined some of the basic security concerns for owners of videoconferencing systems. This article has generated a lot of interest and buzz in the videoconferencing community in the past week. But really there is nothing new here.  Nearly nine years ago, Kaleidoscope’s [...]

The Cisco VCS Expressway traversal devices are designed to be a “set it and forget it type of device.” Once configured and operational, there is not much more user interaction required. Depending on your requirements, I suggest this as a minumum checklist for securing your Expressway, once it is up and running.   Turn off [...]

Make sure you have the latest software installed on your 220 series codec. From the web interface or from the screen interface of the codec, go into admin preferences –> video –>record and stream. Recorder Host Name:  [enter the Video Center IP address] Recorder Port: 443 Record Key: [Enter Recording Channel]. This step is optional. If you [...]

If you have been using or testing LifeSize Connections, it doesn’t take too long before you realize that this is the way to do videoconferencing. Yet, it is still 1.0 software. We’ll see it evolve according to LifeSize’s grand design, but what do you think should be the next steps. Here are a couple of [...]

When using LifeSize Connections, the overall call quality can be judged from the “five bar” status indicator at the bottom of the video screen. However, if you want to get more detailed information about your call stats, simple press ctrl-s (Command-S on a Mac) and you will be presented with a window that provides more [...]