Nikiforov Mikhail

Nikiforov Mikhail

Biography

In 1992 graduated from technical faculty of the Moscow Institute of cryptography, communication and information science (IKSI) in Applied mathematics.

Came to CROC in 1996 the engineer on network equipment of Cisco Systems. Then, having become the lead engineer of department of telecommunications, participated in implementation of large telecommunication projects across all Russia, including for JSC Tyumenenergo, a number of territorial banks of Sberbank of Russia.

For 2017 Mikhail Nikiforov works as the associate director of department of telecommunications of CROC, the head of a video conferencing.

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We predict wide circulation of new technologies VIDEOCONFERENCING and video in general: video broadcastings, video records in Interenet, video telephony, teleprezens (telepresence). On teleprezens this year we are going to implement several projects, we note great interest from customers to this technology. For comparison: last year we had only one such project. One more trend of this year is connected with an actual finish of consolidation Cisco and Tandberg. At last, the product line clear to all, with the clear prices, strategy, logistics appeared. Many customers who preferred the equipment Tandberg received confidence that their networks will develop up to date. The last two years while there was a process of merge of these two companies, Polycom had a certain advantage. Now probably influence of Cisco company in the market of VKS considerably will increase.

CROC works with customers from different segments of the market: with telecommunication companies, with retail, with financial and state structures, power, an oil and gas industry, the industrial companies. But the main consumers of VKS are government and bank structures today. For one of such customers – bank known to all – we did the project which is unique on the scale. It is the largest project in Europe if not in the world: more than one thousand codecs, several tens of servers.

The majority of projects on creation of VKS networks are very similar at each other, they are under construction according to universal schemes and the principles. And in them only some specific solutions, for example, unique integration with Avaya, with Cisco IP telephony, with Microsoft can be unique. In one project we organized an output to iPad of the presentations shown during the session of VKS. So during video video conference to participants it was broadcast on monitors, and the presentations which were shown by speakers were brought to iPad. This quite unique solution within VKS.