Posted by Ken Davison on Tue, Aug 23, 2011 @ 11:54 AM
At the recent Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit, held in the Doubletree City Center Hotel in Philadelphia, Magor Communications conducted a live demonstration of HD visual collaboration involving multiple point-to-point and multipoint visual collaboration calls between locations across the globe – Philadelphia, Miami, Toronto, Ottawa, London and even Nairobi, Kenya.
What was special about these calls is not just the range of locations that were involved. Rather, it is something that will have a huge impact on the ability of governments, corporations and other organizations to conduct collaborative, affordable, real-time HD video-based meetings with remote facilities located virtually anywhere on the planet – even with places that are notoriously difficult to reach.
Pushing the envelope of HD video, the demonstration established a multipoint session (which included 1080p resolution video and shared desktops) over a basic Internet access link and Emerging Markets Communications’ (EMC’s) new VSAT HDConnect Service. (A side note: when EMC’s service is formally launched, it will be available “on-demand”, significantly lowering the cost of satellite service.)
The result? A high quality video experience – with no perceived delay – that mirrored a real-life, face-to-face meeting even though the participants were literally located across the globe from one another.
Why do we think this is such a big deal?
While the current promise of satellite service connectivity is to provide access to remote locations that are out of reach of traditional wireline and wireless services, real-time HD video communication across this medium has until now not been viable. This is because the time it takes for the signal to travel from the Earth to a satellite and back results in an experience that puts a description of “real-time” to question.
However, this demonstration proved that real-time HD video communication over VSAT service is now possible.
The high quality video that the audience experienced was delivered by combining EMC’s HDConnect VSAT service, which significantly reduces packet loss and jitter over VSAT, with Magor’s peer-to- peer architecture and scalable video coding (SVC++).
This combination delivers a new service offering that ensures coherent, effective HD video communication with locations that until now have been impossible, if not very, very difficult to reach.
In short, this demonstration illustrated the potential huge opportunity for organizations worldwide to improve reach to and communication with remote offices, colleagues, partners and customers virtually anywhere on the planet.
If you’d like more detailed information, please check out the press release.
For information on Emerging Markets Corporation (EMC) please see their website: www.emc-corp.net.
Posted by Ken Davison on Tue, Jul 05, 2011 @ 12:19 PM
Hello and welcome to the Visual Collaboration Blog!
The team at Magor has designed this site to be an interactive space for sharing ideas, opinions and general information regarding visual collaboration.
You may be asking yourself, “What is Visual Collaboration?” Or, you may already be familiar with visual collaboration and therefore have something to share with others. Either way, we hope you will find this site useful as we endeavor to debate issues related to visual collaboration and to help raise awareness of this technology.
As two adjacent markets (high definition video and advanced collaboration) are coming together to help organizations improve communication, enhance decision making and increase productivity, we’re hoping to create a space where people interested in visual collaboration can discuss and share the latest industry news, market trends and technical developments – and do so in an open, informative and fun environment.
In this blog, we’ll share our observations on the market along with updates on things happening at Magor. We’ll present real-world deployment stories, offer our reactions to industry news and look at the challenges facing legacy video conferencing and collaboration solutions. We’ll attempt to address topics such as ‘Why do we need visual collaboration anyway?’ and ‘Is visual collaboration just a marketing term for the same old solutions, or is it truly something different?’
Perhaps of greater importance however, we’d like to ask you to share your feedback, thoughts and ideas. Let us know what you think of the posts, share your own experiences and knowledge and suggest subjects for people visiting this site to address.
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With best regards,
Ken Davison
VP of Global Sales and Marketing