There’s continuing growing demand for services in the Australian video communications market, with modest growth taking the total value of the market to $52.6 million last year.

Polycom has signed a multi-year, global unified agreement with Microsoft that it says represents a major step towards streamlining communications across messaging, video and voice with connected applications and devices.

The National Broadband Network will deliver much richer telemedicine capabilities allowing applications to be rolled out to “deliver good quality care to people who could not get it without travelling to the city,” according to the head of IT at a Cochlear implant clinic.

Technology allowing NAB’s wholesale bank employees to collaborate with one another around the world using collaboration tools and videoconferencing paid for itself in less than three months, leaving the bank poised to offer a range of video based services to customers.

Cisco and its latest sidekick Tandberg believe videoconferencing has now reached the tipping point to go mainstream, but as the company learned first hand today, fancy front-ends count for nothing if you don’t have the right plumbing.

Cisco has secured EC clearance for its planned Tandberg acquisition, so long as it takes steps to ensure other vendors can interoperate with its videoconferencing products.

Avaya and Polycom are to integrate technologies in the latest of a string of relationships announced by Polycom following the acquisition of Tandberg by Cisco.

A Melbourne based interpreting service has written to 1,000 NSW schools offering interpreters via videoconference, a service it says could be delivered through the schools’ Connected Classrooms.

The continued lack of a Medicare claim number for videoconference based medical consultations is holding back the deployment of technology that could help rural and regional health authorities tackle ballooning skills shortages.

Videoconferencing and mobile video provider Tandberg has appointed Marco Corrent as its Australia and New Zealand channel manager.