by Tom LeBlanc | May 12, 2017 | Insights, News
Mark Twain is credited with having said that reports of his death are greatly exaggerated. As we approach InfoComm 2017, however, many matrix switch manufacturers might want to borrow that sentiment amid some pretty blunt predictions of the death of the matrix switch...
by Tom LeBlanc | Apr 24, 2017 | Insights, News
I met Ron Prier at the very first CI Summit in 2012. There were only about 30 attendees that first year, so it was easy to connect with everybody. However, I could have easily overlooked the reserved founder of RPAV had he not quietly summoned me to sit down next to...
by Tom LeBlanc | Apr 24, 2017 | News
When ClearTech Media, a 13-employee integration firm, decided to shift from its decades-old focus almost exclusively on project-based revenue and commit to providing managed services solutions, it needed a little help. First it needed a key employee to over-see the...
by Tom LeBlanc | Apr 21, 2017 | News
When Audinate announced its Dante Domain Manager at Integrated Systems Europe 2017 the spin was that the network management solution would make it easier for organization’s IT departments to deal with AV technologies. Managing AV is an unnatural concept for many (at...
by Tom LeBlanc | Apr 20, 2017 | News
Just 14 months ago, Christina De Bono, president of integration firm ClearTech Media, sat in the audience at NSCA’s Business & Leadership Conference (BLC), where the sessions collectively formed a clear directive to integration firm executives in attendance: It’s...
