InfoComm 2010 Review

We made the trip out to Las Vegas last week to attend the largest event of the year in our industry, InfoComm 2010. It is always great to catch up with all of our friends and to take a look at the latest technology that they have on the roadmap. Here are a few highlights.

Seats for Soldiers Night

“We are experts in integrating AV in Boardrooms and Conference rooms for our customers. It is great to be able to use this incredible technology to connect families to their loved ones half way around the world. Thanks to the USO and the entire Celtics organization for helping OmniPresence with this special event.” - Dan Hofferty, CTS Vice President of Sales

H.264 SVC | Scalable Video Coding

Why is H.264 Scalable Video Coding changing the landscape of the video conferencing Industry?
Traditional videoconferencing technology typically requires the implementation of costly QoS network for the reliable transport of video traffic. Without a QoS network video traffic is highly susceptible to problems caused by network latency and congestion.

Lifesize new 220 series, the next generation of Video Communication

Lifesize Room 220 has Full HD Continuous Presence MCU with up to four visible participants. It has up to eight way 720p60/720p30 or six way 1080p30 continuous presence or voice activation mode. Simply put Lifesize has made great strides in the advancement of the capacity of the internal MCU on the Room 220. For ad-hoc calls or for occasional multipoint calling this is a great benefit. A customer that has many multipoint calls should still consider a hardware MCU or a Multipoint bridging service such as OmniPresence Video One solutions. The 220 series also has some other benefits. You can connect a 2nd display on all 220 series systems. You have the ability to connect Lifesize conference phone. You have a PC input to send graphics. If your still curious on what the right system is for you here is a good outline of how to determine this. LifeSize Express 220 is meant for the smaller conference rooms or branch offices. It is both affordable and scalable. It does not have a built in MCU. The Lifesize Team 220 is ideal for medium sized meeting rooms. It has a full HD Continuous Presence MCU for 4 participants (3 +1). The LifeSize Team 220 is positioned for the Large Conference Room/Boardroom. Full HD MCU up to 8 participants. It also will do a 8 Mbps point to point call.

Lifesize has done a nice job in keeping the product line simple while providing many advancements without an increase in cost.

LifeSize Passport and Skype

LifeSize Passport + Skype =
LifeSize has also teamed up with Skype so that over 480 million registered Skype users can now communicate with LifeSize Passport.
Whether you work from a home office or you are a business traveler the new LifeSize Passport will change the way you do business.  This system has the smallest footprint […]

LifeSize Passport | Flexible, Affordable, Easy-to-use, Telepresence in the palm of your hand.

LifeSize Passport is the first and only HD video to deliver telelpresence quality and unmatched simplicity at a price point that enables broad deployment to everyone in your organization. And with it’s compact form factor, LifeSize Passport is the first trulyportable telepresence quality system.