Abstract :
The advent of smart phones with front facing cameras and ever-increasing broad band network capabilities has once again brought to the fore the promise and challenges of video telephony. However, some industry observers believe that predictions of a mass take-up of consumer-level video chats, and its commensurate ability to overwhelm network capacity, views more like a rerun of unmet predictions past than a new high-definition glimpse into the future. In fact, industry analyst Dean Bubley calls widespread mainstream press reports of a data crunch caused by a predicted video flood "the tyranny of consensus".
Keywords :
videotelephony; broadband network capability; consumer-level video chat; data crunch; network capacity; smart phone; video flood; video telephony; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Smart phones; Streaming media; Telephony; Video signal processing; Wireless networks; Internet computing; network capacity; video conferencing; video telephony;
