LifeSize (News - Alert), a division of Logitech, will show how its HD video conferencing systems work for a range of mission-critical agency applications at AFCEA West 2011, currently taking place in San Diego.
LifeSize will showcase LifeSize Room, a product company officials characterize as "a feature-rich HD video communications product for large conference rooms that facilitates continuity of operations, command and control, and emergency preparedness and response," in addition to distance learning, telemedicine and collaboration.
Basically, LifeSize Room "enables video calls with up to eight participants through an embedded HD multipoint control unit, or bridge, offering the quality and user simplicity to make remote communications a more productive, true-to-life experience."
In a unit which company officials claim is "half the size of competitors’" products, LifeSize Room features sharing of presentations, documents and multimedia material among all participants for "improved collaboration with geographically dispersed team members."
LifeSize’s scalability and open source interoperability are being touted by company officials as an alternative to the "centralized, capital-intensive" infrastructure investments currently being made in federal video conferencing applications: "The company’s future-proof video conferencing products enable customers to realize as much as a 40 percent reduction in total cost of ownership by using LifeSize for HD telepresence."
In October TMC's (News - Alert) Paula Bernier wrote that LifeSize unveiled a 16-port videoconferencing bridge that it said will enable organizations to bring HD video to as many parties as they want for multiparty calling.
Mary Miller, director of product marketing at LifeSize, told TMCnet that the company believes the LifeSize Bridge, which offers cinema-quality video at $4,062 per port, will move companies, which until now were hesitant to buy a video bridge, to take the plunge. That’s because LifeSize Bridge is affordable, scalable and offers a high-quality (720p30, 720p60 and 1080p) video experience even at full capacity, Miller said.
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