Management and Infrastructure
As the current trend towards converged network enterprise solutions increases, designing a bespoke solution for your specific conferencing needs will in turn allow your company to gain the greatest benefit and ROI that desktop, room or Telepresence video-conferencing suites can provide.
As your video investment within a company/enterprise grows above 4-6 video-conferencing endpoints, managing and controlling these devices in a cost effective way becomes more reliant on having the right building blocks in place, whilst at the same time augmenting your investment by adding scalability, functionality and adaptability.
By integrating the latest network products from Polycom, LifeSize and Cisco Codian-Tandberg into your corporate network infrastructure, the user is able to create video-conferences involving a limitless number of participants on demand, with ease of use remaining the main priority. These scheduling and monitoring applications not only offer ease of use when booking scheduled or ad-hoc conferences, but in addition can be recorded and/or streamed across your corporate network as required.
In addition, the ability to maintain reliability within your videoconferencing solution is designed into the available Management Control applications. Network Administrators can easily schedule firmware updates to all of their video conferencing devices at times when it will not impact on other users on the network. Any faults can be reported quickly to IT personnel via email or text so that as a manager you know about problems and can deal with them before the video call to the CEO goes wrong!
Usage statistics and ROI calculations can be easily collected and automatically downloaded as graphs and tables that will allow you to professionally show how the video network is benefitting the company.
As more and more meetings are conducted using video, the need to archive these meetings has grown both for legal reasons (for financial and legal users) and to give users the ability to revisit meetings. Network recording devices give you the ability to do all this and more. They can automatically record and store all conversations and combine this with any content being shown by any of the sites. This can all be streamed live or at a later date to anyone you wish.
Finally, as a company's (or enterprise network's) needs increase to providing universal access to the rest of the IP/ ISDN world across internet and PTSN networks, introducing and correctly placing IP and ISDN Gateways around an organisation's network will help reduce call costs whilst keeping your network secure and safe.
