RadiSys Introduces Continuous Presence Video Conferencing Capabilities for Convedia Media Server Family : Added Features Equip RadiSys Application D

Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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HILLSBORO, Ore. (Business Wire EON) June 11, 2008 -- Commenting on the announcement, Andrew W. Davis, Managing Partner at Wainhouse Research said "Multi-service IP media servers play an important and growing role in service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployments. Adding video mixing capabilities such as continuous presence video conferencing, and enabling the control of these capabilities through open standards-based interfaces, brings significant benefits to application service providers who wish to add video conferencing capabilities rapidly to their unified communications solutions."

David Smith, General Manager of the Media Service Business Unit at RadiSys, explained "RadiSys continues to build out its vision of the IP media server being a versatile, shared media processing platform in a multi-service VoIP and IMS deployment. This new video feature is yet another example of RadiSys' penetration into a broader range of VoIP and real-time video communication markets." Smith added, "Our continuous presence video conferencing feature delivers an open standards-based approach for application developers to offer feature-rich video conferencing services."

Support for Continuous Presence Video Opens Window of Opportunity

Continuous presence video adds a new mode of video conferencing support for video conferencing application developers. The RadiSys Convedia CMS-9000 media server already supports Voice-Activated Switching (VAS) so that all video conference participants see an identical real-time video stream of the active speaker. VAS is particularly beneficial for participants using mobile handsets where limited screen size makes multi-pane display impractical. With the new CP video conferencing capability, which includes parameters to specify border size and colors, as well as active speaker highlights, RadiSys now offers an alternative video conferencing capability ideally suited for immersive desktop unified communications offerings.

Open, Standards-Based Solutions to Drive Collaborative Multimedia Conferencing Deployments

The RadiSys approach of offering video mixing capabilities through an open standards-based Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Media Server Markup Language (MSML) interface offers distinct benefits compared to traditional Multimedia Conferencing Unit (MCU) products. RadiSys Convedia media servers bring to SIP audio application developers the opportunity to economically add video features to their solutions, accelerating their ability to introduce and integrate feature-rich IP video conferencing capabilities into a unified communications solution. The result is an improved business case for the widespread rollout of video conferencing capabilities. Better economics will drive the migration and benefits of collaborative multimedia conferencing solutions out of the purpose-built, expensive video conference rooms of the past, and towards the desktops, mobile laptops, and 3G mobile phones of future video-enabled organizations and online communities.

Availability

Video conferencing capabilities supporting both H.263 and H.264/MPEG4 (Part 10) video codecs are available immediately for the RadiSys Convedia CMS-9000 media server.

Additional Information Resources

Convedia Media Servers Data Sheet

Convedia Video Conferencing Solutions Sheet

About RadiSys Convedia Media Servers

Ranked the market leading IP media server vendor for four consecutive years by market research firms Infonetics and iLocus, RadiSys Convedia media servers support a broad set of IP media processing features essential for next-generation VoIP conferencing applications in conference service provider (CSP) and enterprise conferencing environments. The RadiSys Convedia CMS-9000 Media Server delivers optimal performance and reliability, scalability, and a low total cost of ownership for media-intensive IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks and services. These media servers enable fixed mobile convergence by delivering a shared IP media processing resource for any access network, including wireless, broadband, cable, PSTN or satellite. The system's multi-service versatility enables revenue-generating IMS applications, including multimedia conferencing, IP Centrex, ringback tones, network gaming, video communications, and complex audio/video transcoding.

Nine of the top ten CSPs worldwide deploy RadiSys Convedia media servers in their networks.

About RadiSys Corporation

RadiSys (NASDAQ:RSYS) is a leading provider of advanced solutions for the communications networking and commercial systems markets. Through intimate customer collaboration and combining innovative technologies and industry leading architecture, RadiSys helps OEMs, systems integrators, and solution providers bring better products to market faster and more economically. RadiSys products include embedded boards, application enabling platforms, the OS-9® operating system, and turn-key systems, which are used in today's complex computing, processing, and network-intensive applications. For more information, visit http://www.radisys.com, e-mail info@radisys.com, or call 800-950-0044 or 503-615-1100. Editors seeking more information may contact Lyn Pangares at RadiSys Corporation at 503-615-1220 or lyn.pangares@radisys.com.

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