Featured in the Current Issue:
Spring 2013, Volume 11 Number 1

• ITopia: What’s The New Normal?
  Increased use of mobile devices, media-rich content and cloud-based solutions are making system design and integration ever more challenging; however, the future is filled with opportunities for those who are prepared.
  By Shonan Noronha, EdD

• InfoComm: Convergence Continued: InfoComm's Board of Directors responds to AV-IT trends.
  The AV world has changed and if you’re not up to speed on IT networks, you are at a growing disadvantage.
  By David Labuskes, CTS, RCDD

• Industry Watch: Technology Convergence Creates Strange Bedfellows: Evaluating the potential for partnerships.
  One of the IT industry’s favorite buzzwords, convergence, also embodies the overlap happening across various technology solutions providers.
  By Todd Thibodeaux

• Corporate: Making Believers In Video Collaboration: Avaya builds Video Exchange demo facility.
  Avaya recognized the value of dedicating space and resources to selling communications technology by demonstrating its reliability and ease of use at its Research Triangle Park.
  By Richard Clark, General Manager, AVI-SPL.

• Education: Pervasive Projection At SMU’s Meadows School: Achieving uniformity in a university-level projection-based AV System.
  The proliferation of analog and digital media formats, as well as visual content, presented a challenge for SMU and integrator AV Dallas.
  By David Sedman, PhD, & Dave Pollock

• Healthcare: Video Display Wall System At Texas Children’s Hospital: SRC’s central information hub supports key hospital priorities.
  This award winner in patient care delivers the same level of attention to its technology and “behind the scenes” systems.
  By Thaddeus Leopoulos

• Worship: Audio Vision For Crossroads Nazarene Church: A system designed for clarity, coverage and connectivity.
  AVDB Group helped retrofit the church’s outdated audio system by focusing on goals and setting realistic expectations.
  By Marty Waverly, CTS, & Nathaniel Hall, CTS, CTS-I, CTS-D

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