Magor Communications and Emerging Markets Communications
(EMC) conducted a live demonstration of real-time, high definition (HD) video
conferencing over unmanaged Internet and EMC’s VSAT service at the Wainhouse
Research Collaboration Summit.
Magor and
EMC conducted a live
point-to-point visual collaboration call between a Magor TeleCollaboration
system in Philadelphia and a Cisco C20 in Nairobi, Kenya. The call was made
from Philadelphia to Germany over the Internet. From Germany, it connected to
Nairobi via EMC’s VSAT service.
Once that call was complete, the companies conducted a
peer-to-peer multipoint call between three Magor TeleCollaboration endpoints
located in Philadelphia, London and Miami. This call utilized Magor’s scalable
video coding (SVC++ ) to connect from Philadelphia to London over the Internet.
It then connected to Miami via a satellite connection out
of Germany. Miami then automatically closed the mesh to connect back to
Philadelphia via a satellite in Hawaii.
The successful demonstration was an important advancement
for delivering real-time HD visual collaboration services to remote locations
across the globe.
Magor and EMC demonstrated the ability to extend HD
video conferencing using satellite links to locations around the world,” said
Ira M. Weinstein, senior analyst and partner Wainhouse Research.
Traditionally, satellite connections have had difficulty
providing the low latency and consistently high performance necessary to host
business-quality video conferencing. EMC’s VSAT offering combines ad-hoc
access, low delay, and high QoS with an innovative usage-based cost model to
provide a reliable and affordable satellite network able to carry even the most
demanding communication traffic including real-time video conferencing.”
Weinstein added.
We were proud to announce our HD Connect On Demand
Satellite Service at the Wainhouse Research Collaboration Summit,” said Thomas
Luketich, VP of video conferencing and application services for EMC.
HD Connect provides HD visual collaboration, video
conferencing and telepresence circuits in an on demand method anywhere in the
world, concentrating on Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. The HD Connect
service, which works with any video conferencing system, utilizes EMC’s high
quality MPLS satellite network, which has been providing data services to
governments and NGOs in those regions for over 8 years.
By Telecomlead.com Team
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