Featured in the Current Issue:
Fall 2012, Volume 10 Number 2

• WAVELENGTH
  By David A. Silverman

• ITOPIA: Sustainable Success
  Deploying a sustainable IT/AV solution requires that designers, integrators and their customers pay close attention to a number of complex and potentially contradictory priorities.
  By Shonan Noronha, EdD

• INFOCOMM: Last Call On Digital Signage
  InfoComm International is further encouraging its members to add digital signage to their array of skills because digital signage is not, in reality, its own market.
  By Randal A. Lemke, PhD

• EDUCATION: Advancing U of Hawaii's Distance Learning
  Hawaii's island geography creates issues not faced by other universities and ongoing developments in technology have encouraged the University of Hawaii (UH) to redesign and advance its interactive video distance learning system.
  By Royd Liu & Erica Aquino

• ENTERTAINMENT: Feds, Mobsters, Mayhem & Digital Networks
  The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement (aka: The Mob Museum), an homage to Las Vegas' seedier past, opened on Valentine's Day this year. A team of architects, exhibit designers, engineers and technology specialists was assembled to transform the old courthouse into an integrated, interactive museum.
  By Raymond Kent, LEED AP, CTS, DMC-D, ECA

• CORPORATE: Immersive Collaboration At Clue Center
  The Customer Learning Understanding and Exploration (CLUE) Center, headquartered in Indianapolis IN, enables cross-functional employees to collaborate with members of Lilly's Global Marketing Team as they evaluate business decisions.
  By Andrew Sellers

• GOVERNMENT: Deploying AV For Aerospace Control
  When United Launch Alliance planned a new design center and corporate headquarters, Xcite Audiovisuals were chosen as the AV systems integrator for the Operations Center’s display wall: the AV nexus of a huge amount of data that had to be timely, legible and dependable. Sometimes in the industry, there is no margin for error.
  By Brian Seid

• WORSHIP: First Baptist Church Builds Impressive AV Capability
  AThe First Baptist Church in Dallas TX, which has held worship services at the same location since 1890, has spent $130 million on its new downtown worship center and second hi-rise building that looks to revitalize the city of Dallas, as well as the church's ministry.
  By John Switzer

• CONTROL SYSTEMS: Selecting Control Systems
  Control systems have evolved from remote-controlled slide projectors to the integration of campus-wide converged IT network solutions, all while increasing accessibility to “non-technical” users through highly refined graphical interfaces. This is the new expectation.
  By Russ Noble

• VIEWPOINT: How Will Mobility Change The Face Of Videoconferencing?
  QoS, VaaS, MDM and BYOD are true IT/AV: The mobility of the user is today's mantra. Addressing the issue are Scott Cruikshank, James Fairweather, Mark Dumas, Aspen Moulden, Rupert Wever, Jim Floyd and Joanne Kossuth.
  By David Danto

Featured in the past Issue:
Spring 2012, Volume 10 Number 1

• WAVELENGTH
  By David A. Silverman

• ITOPIA: META CONVERGENCE
  By Shonan Noronha, EdD

• INFOCOMM: THE ERA OF MOBILE VTC
  The age of mobile videoconferencing is officially upon us, and it will rely on the convergence of AV and IT like no other technology before it.
  By Randal A. Lemke, PhD

• INDUSTRY WATCH: STATE OF COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATIONS
  IMCCA addresses the dramatic changes seen in the last few years in the worlds of visual communications, collaboration, unified communications and related technologies.
  By Carol Zelkin & David Danto

• VIDEOCONFERENCING: KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION
  The future of successful videoconferencing global implementation relies heavily on knowing key critical considerations to multinational strategic communications.
  By Mike White, CTS

• CORPORATE: SOMETIMES, SIMPLER WORKS BETTER
  Schiller's AV won the bid to design and install presentation systems for BJC Health Care by using functional and budgetary solutions.
  By David Wyne, CTS

• EDUCATION: CONVERGENCE AT NKU
  Diversified Systems designed and integrated Northern Kentucky University's Griffin Hall network infrastructure to carry digital media over multiple systems on its IT backbone.
  By Shawn Samii & Tom Atkins

• GOVERNMENT: NEW IN-HOUSE AV AT VANDENBERG AFB
  Jensen Audio Visual integrated communications, presentation and control equipment in Vandenberg Air Force Base's Pacific Coast Club.
  By John Salgado, CTS

• HEALTHCARE: ADVANCING TELEMEDICINE STUDIES
  AVI-SPL worked with University of California San Francisco's IT team and Drake Consulting Group to install and integrate UCSF's presentation systems.
  By Judd Jelincic, CTS-D, TCTD

• VIEWPOINT: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF GAIN
  Cloud computing is already part of many enterprise environments, could offer significant cost savings to businesses of all sizes.
  By Shonan Noronha, EdD

• CONNECTIONS
  A selection of IT-centric AV products.