technilink News - 16/02/2004

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16/02/2004

VCON launches HD3000 set-top and HD5000 high performance group videoconferencing systems; each system offers High Definition video quality and more using H.264 over broadband IP.

11 February 2004. VCON has added two new group systems, the HD3000 set-top conferencing system and HD5000 high performance, group conferencing system, to its High-Definition codec for sytsems integrators - the HD100. VCON’s HD3000 and HD5000 will be shipping in Q1 2004.

Gordon Daugherty, chief marketing officer, VCON, said: “Never before has a near-TV quality line of videoconferencing products been offered with this kind of price performance and value.They are likely to be chosen by many to enhance meetings and training sessions.”

The VCON HD3000 combines streaming, videoconferencing and an embedded MCU functionality all in one system and all at a single price point.

With IP data rates up to 4Mbps and interlaced CIF video resolution, the HD3000 has exceptional video quality. The built-in 4-port MCU has all the basic multipoint features, as well as many advanced features normally found only in larger, more expensive MCUs. Some of the HD3000 MCU features include cascading, video and audio transcoding, downspeeding and speed matching.

Any HD3000 MCU conference can be simultaneously streamed over the Internet, at a lower data rate than the conference, to multiple participants using either the unicast or multicast streaming methods.

The VCON HD5000 is a high-performance, versatile group conferencing system that provides data rates up to 4Mbps and supports the new H.264 video standard for exceptional video quality at half the bandwidth. ISDN is available on the HD5000 at data rates up to 384Kbps. The HD5000 has native 16:9 display support for users who wish to view their conference on an LCD or plasma wide-screen display without going through digital-analog-digital conversions. The HD DualStream(TM) is a unique feature of the HD5000, allowing users to simultaneously stream video and data.

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