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Video conferencing is a powerful communications
tool in the modern business world. The ability to share
important business discussions with body language and
facial expressions delivers enormous benefits compared
to any other conferencing media. In many ways, video conferencing
has truly become “the next-best thing to being there.”
Many Fortune 500 companies are frequent users of video
conferencing solutions based on Video MCU (Multimedia
Conferencing Unit) technology along with ISDN-based networks
and video terminals. However, the expense of these systems
often limits the deployment of conferencing technology
to room-based systems in each corporate location. Video
MCU products are typically tight, proprietary integrations
of a conferencing application and video processing hardware.
Video MCU solutions limit third-party feature enhancements,
and also limit the reuse of the video processing resources
with other applications. The result is a relatively expensive
single-service solution with limited flexibility and scalability.
Convedia Media Servers are bringing
video application development into the Internet era. Convedia
Media Servers are purpose-built to economically deliver
the DSP-intensive video media processing capabilities
essential in next-generation IP video conferencing solutions.
Service providers and application developers, using familiar
Internet technologies such as SIP and XML scripts, can
now develop video conferencing applications to control
Convedia’s advanced video bridging, streaming, and
transcoding features, including multi-image display options
and continuous presence. This “best-of-breed”
approach not only reduces the overall costs for a video
conferencing solution, but also facilitates the reuse
of Convedia’s media processing capabilities across
any IP-based audio or video telephony application.
- Video codecs supported: H.263,
MPEG-4*
- Video bridging, switching, and
mixing
- Video conference recording and
playback
- Video transcoding and rate matching*
- Advanced continuous presence*
- External video media storage
(in QuickTime™ format via NFS)
- Open standards-based control
interface based on SIP and MSML/MOML facilitates integration
with videomail application servers
- Software-only upgrade to existing
Convedia Media Server platforms
Interoperability with existing
ISDN-based terminals or emerging 3G-H324M mobile video
terminals can be achieved through appropriate video gateway
devices. When deployed with any QoS-enabled IP network
(such as an IP VPN or an MPLS backbone network), video
conferencing quality is comparable to existing ISDN-based
solutions, at a fraction of the initial capital and ongoing
operational expense. The result is an improved ROI, which
will drive the economic migration and service benefits
of video conferencing solutions out of the conference
rooms and towards desktops and 3G mobile phones.
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