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The Zero Touch Conferencing Space Covid-19 has changed the world forever to say the least. As businesses are now starting to open back up, executives are taking a pause and thinking about what the new normal is going to look like.  Questions that are being asked include:  • How is social distancing going to be implemented?  • How will I provide a healthy and safe working environment?  • How do I project confidence that my workspace is safe and convince employees to come    back?  • Should I build out larger spaces allowing for social distancing?  • Should I scale back the open office and repurpose huddle rooms and build out new     enclosed offices?  • How do I provide a minimal touch environment to limit the vectors of infection if it is    from Covid or something else? These questions are relevant to just about every working space environment.  So, what can we implement today to facil...

SIP/H.323 Video endpoint vs. Native Zoom Room While there are many approaches to providing high quality video experiences this article is going to explore the differences between using a standards-based codec approach compared to the native software-based codec approach on the Zoom platform. My opinions expressed in this article are solely mine. The Cloud Room Connector (CRC) from Zoom provides a gateway that enables standards-based codecs to join a Zoom Meeting. Below is a diagram of how the CRC gateway approach works from Zoom: Traditional SIP/H.323 video endpoints offer interoperability and flexibility allowing customers to pivot between different video strategies and platforms albeit on-prem video bridges from Poly, Cisco, Pexip to VaaS platforms such as Zoom or BlueJeans.   Many of these endpoints can register to more than one platform or at least video dial into many platforms using a one button to push (OBTP) experience. The benefits of using a s...