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Solution Snapshot: Magor's Advanced Collaboration
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Advanced Collaboration
A significant differentiator for Magor TeleCollaboration is the company's approach to advanced collaboration, which can dramatically improve the effectiveness of video-based meetings.
Advanced collaboration allows participants to easily access, share and manipulate the files, applications and other information assets that users keep on their personal computers. These assets are often critical to the success of a visual collaboration experience. Magor's implementation allows users to easily and seamlessly access and share these important assets during a visual collaboration experience, immediately enabling documents and files to be worked on in a collaborative manner, with no need for any specialized training.
Participants can also leverage the Magor product line's video real estate (at least one 46-inch monitor is the minimum standard) and impressive presentation resolution - 1080p at 30 frames per second - to exploit the more flexible, bandwidth-efficient and higher quality PC sharing solution. With instant drag-and-drop sharing of computer desktops (any mix of PC, Mac, Linux, UNIX or Solaris systems) through an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), Magor's advanced collaboration capabilities allow permitted participants to see, control and edit shared files and documents in real time. So, instead of "talk now, do later", users conduct working visual collaboration sessions that allow them to make decisions, get work done and produce results more quickly than other endpoint systems.
Unlike the clunky requirements for legacy H.239 services where users have to bring their laptops to a meeting and plug them in for a low resolution presentation to remote telepresence locations, Magor users simply drag an icon of their computer desktop into the workplace area. This instantly brings their desktop into the telepresence session -- no fiddling with plugs or connections or enduring low resolution presentations.
Using the unit's wireless keyboard and mouse, users navigate to their network-attached computer and access the file system and applications library. Then, they are able to instantly share the files and applications on that desktop with other participants in the session. Each participant has individual control over how they view that shared collaboration material. They can scale the document window, larger or smaller, move it to the left or right of the presenter's image to fit their information needs and viewing preferences - there is no MCU limiting the control of what each participant can see. Most importantly, users can pass document-editing control to other TeleCollaboration participants or to Internet Explorer-attached remote participants.
Remote, audio-only attached users can point their Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome or Firefox browser at the conference server and once authenticated, can likewise participate in the advanced collaboration session.
Efficiencies
The Magor approach to advanced collaboration is more efficient with bandwidth utilization than legacy H.239 implementations. With Magor TeleCollaboration, only changes in the image are broadcast whereas H.239 requires a constant delivery of image frames. This unnecessarily consumes bandwidth and codec resources for the duration of the session. Magor TeleCollaboration users can share document control with other participants, a feature that is not supported in H.239. Magor users are more productive since they can directly document their ideas instead of explaining them in words and hand motions so others can then document them. Fewer interpretive translations (you describe, I draw) lead to faster meetings and more effective collaboration outcomes too.
Collaboration sessions are secure since the files being shared never actually leave the owner's desktop - the owner maintains the file. This approach helps eliminate the possibility of multiple, perhaps incomplete or incorrect versions of a document floating around a network and reduces the risk of inadvertently being released or shared outside the group.
The following table contrasts the features of three common approaches to collaboration in telepresence settings:
Magor's advanced collaboration capabilities enable convenient, natural and spontaneous shared collaboration in 1080p. No monitor real estate needs to be dedicated to document presentations, and users don't need a separate login ID or monthly service to share a document. They also don't need to bring their PCs and power cables to the meeting.
More collaboration. More productivity. Period.
Advanced Collaboration
A significant differentiator for Magor TeleCollaboration is the company's approach to advanced collaboration, which can dramatically improve the effectiveness of video-based meetings.
Advanced collaboration allows participants to easily access, share and manipulate the files, applications and other information assets that users keep on their personal computers. These assets are often critical to the success of a visual collaboration experience. Magor's implementation allows users to easily and seamlessly access and share these important assets during a visual collaboration experience, immediately enabling documents and files to be worked on in a collaborative manner, with no need for any specialized training.
Participants can also leverage the Magor product line's video real estate (at least one 46-inch monitor is the minimum standard) and impressive presentation resolution - 1080p at 30 frames per second - to exploit the more flexible, bandwidth-efficient and higher quality PC sharing solution. With instant drag-and-drop sharing of computer desktops (any mix of PC, Mac, Linux, UNIX or Solaris systems) through an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), Magor's advanced collaboration capabilities allow permitted participants to see, control and edit shared files and documents in real time. So, instead of "talk now, do later", users conduct working visual collaboration sessions that allow them to make decisions, get work done and produce results more quickly than other endpoint systems.
Unlike the clunky requirements for legacy H.239 services where users have to bring their laptops to a meeting and plug them in for a low resolution presentation to remote telepresence locations, Magor users simply drag an icon of their computer desktop into the workplace area. This instantly brings their desktop into the telepresence session -- no fiddling with plugs or connections or enduring low resolution presentations.
Using the unit's wireless keyboard and mouse, users navigate to their network-attached computer and access the file system and applications library. Then, they are able to instantly share the files and applications on that desktop with other participants in the session. Each participant has individual control over how they view that shared collaboration material. They can scale the document window, larger or smaller, move it to the left or right of the presenter's image to fit their information needs and viewing preferences - there is no MCU limiting the control of what each participant can see. Most importantly, users can pass document-editing control to other TeleCollaboration participants or to Internet Explorer-attached remote participants.
Remote, audio-only attached users can point their Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome or Firefox browser at the conference server and once authenticated, can likewise participate in the advanced collaboration session.
Efficiencies
The Magor approach to advanced collaboration is more efficient with bandwidth utilization than legacy H.239 implementations. With Magor TeleCollaboration, only changes in the image are broadcast whereas H.239 requires a constant delivery of image frames. This unnecessarily consumes bandwidth and codec resources for the duration of the session. Magor TeleCollaboration users can share document control with other participants, a feature that is not supported in H.239. Magor users are more productive since they can directly document their ideas instead of explaining them in words and hand motions so others can then document them. Fewer interpretive translations (you describe, I draw) lead to faster meetings and more effective collaboration outcomes too.
Collaboration sessions are secure since the files being shared never actually leave the owner's desktop - the owner maintains the file. This approach helps eliminate the possibility of multiple, perhaps incomplete or incorrect versions of a document floating around a network and reduces the risk of inadvertently being released or shared outside the group.
The following table contrasts the features of three common approaches to collaboration in telepresence settings:
Magor's advanced collaboration capabilities enable convenient, natural and spontaneous shared collaboration in 1080p. No monitor real estate needs to be dedicated to document presentations, and users don't need a separate login ID or monthly service to share a document. They also don't need to bring their PCs and power cables to the meeting.More collaboration. More productivity. Period.
