This new solution expands on the real-time audio and web conferencing and collaboration provided by its Mereon Application Server and Mereon Conferencing application. It will offer highly flexible and user-friendly features like service interoperability with all H.263 videoconferencing client systems, interoperability with 3G mobile phones and desktop IP phones, capacity for 8 video and 100 audio participants per conference, flexible templates and moderator controls.

With the advent of IP-centric video conferencing, the cost of this previously expensive application has dropped precipitously while the appeal and accessibility of real-time video meetings have grown by leaps and bounds. In addition, the participant-friendly, intuitive GUIs and participant controls of today's IP video conferencing service platforms have made it much simpler to add and personalize video conferencing for users, enterprises and carriers.

Nithya A. Ruff, vice president of product management and marketing for IP Unity, states, "We have leveraged the best of IP Unity's applications technology to make video conferencing easy to use, flexible, IMS ready and carrier grade. We fulfill customers' needs for personalized interactions in the enterprise and in the consumer space through video enabling interactions, in a cost-effective and a preference driven way."

Among the compelling features of the solution are

-- Ability to support multipoint conferencing up to eight simultaneous video participants and 100 audio participants per conference. System capacity will support many simultaneous conferences, and enables subscribers on desktop, IP phone and 3G mobile phone networks as well as all H.263 videoconferencing clients to participate.

-- High-resolution display of participant images and imported video streams via support for .3gp and MPEG4 video formats

-- Ability to display video conferencing signals flexibly on many different end-user devices, ensured by automatic transcoding, frame rate control and rate matching between video streams

-- Use of all applicable audio and web conferencing service features, including easy-to-use participant controls, extensive moderator controls, multiple skin options and in-conference operator assistance.

-- Moderator-controlled features such as in-conference paging, on-demand conference provisioning and whisper mode

-- Voice-activated switching

IP Unity will exhibit in booth 76063 at GLOBALCOMM in Chicago, Illinois June 5 - 8, 2006.

Source: Business Wire