What is Telepresence?

Telepresence is the science and art of creating visual collaboration environments, networks, and strategies that duplicate in-person meeting experiences as completely as possible in both internal and external business communications. Effectively leveraging telepresence as an organizational and collaborative strategy can improve productivity and effectiveness by enhancing business communication, collaboration, and reducing physical travel.

A good telepresence strategy puts the human factors first, focusing on visual collaboration solutions that closely replicate the brain's innate preferences for interpersonal communications, separating from the unnatural "talking heads" experience of traditional videoconferencing. These cues include life-size participants, fluid motion, accurate flesh tones and the appearance of true eye contact.

What are some of the systems, components, networks, and managed services and providers that are required to deploy and/or enhance telepresence?

Telepresence Conferencing - On-Stage Telepresence & Telepresence Podiums
On-Stage Telepresence refers to telepresence solutions that are able to replicate a life-size person on a stage that is able to interact with an audience in real time from afar. Telepresence podiums allow remote presenters to appear life-size as if they were standing at a podium in a room.

• DVE Telepresence

Telepresence Conferencing - Group Systems
Telepresence group systems are the largest part of the telepresence market and arguably the most important. Group systems typically seat between 4-8 participants across 2-4 screens where participants are life-size in high-definition with excellent lighting, acoustics, and a business-class consistency of quality between locations. They will seat an entire executive team or project team and standards are developing around the 3 screen format. Most systems allow for "telepresence multipoint" where participants from multiple locations can each be represented on one screen/panel so it is possible to have a global round table discussion with life-size participants around the world.

• Cisco CTS 3000
• DVE Tele-Immersion Room
• LifeSize Conference 200
• Polycom RPX
• Polycom TPX
• TANDBERG T3
• Telepresence Tech TPT 4000
• Teliris Express
• Teliris VirtuaLive

Telepresence Conferencing - Large Group / Classroom
Telepresence classrooms and large group systems offer many of the same benefits as group systems but hold at least 18 participants.

• Cisco CTS 3200
• Polycom RPX 400 Series

Telepresence Conferencing - Small Group Systems
Small group systems are typically limited to a single screen and can often accept a variety of traditional videoconferencing cameras/codecs to improve the human factors and end user acceptance of existing videoconferencing deployments.

• Cisco CTS 1000
• Cisco CTS 1300
• DVE Huddle 70
• Telepresence Tech TPT 2000

Telepresence Conferencing - Executive Systems
Executive systems extend telepresence capabilities to an executive's office. Some offer features that hide the camera and align it for eye-contact.

• Cisco CTS 500
• DVE Silhouette

Telepresence Managed Service Providers
Telepresence and videoconferencing managed service providers help organizations by outsourcing the management and video network infrastructure required for telepresence to visual collaboration specialists. Many telepresence managed service providers offer reservation agents, help desk, network expertise, and run telepresence Community of Interest Networks (CoINs) or exchanges that connect firms to partners, vendors, and customers for inter-company business.

• BT Conferencing
• Glowpoint Managed Telepresence Services
• Iformata Telepresence Managed Services
• Nortel Telepresence Solutions
• Verizon Business Managed Telepresence Services

Telepresence Inter-Networking Solutions
Telepresence inter-networking solutions include network providers who can deliver the Quality-of-Service required for real-time telepresence and videoconferencing ensuring that IP packets arrive without delay in the right sequence for flawless video. Some providers offer exchange services that connect firms to partners, vendors, and customers for effective inter-company business. Some carrier-neutral collocation / meet-me-room providers allow enterprise customers, carriers, and managed service providers to collocate video network infrastructure where it can be easily connected to multiple networks for inter-company business.

• Glowpoint
• Hibernia Atlantic
• MASERGY Global IP Network
• MASERGY Video Extranet
• telx
• Virtela
• Verizon Business

Telepresence Video Infrastructure, CODEC, Display, and Peripheral Manufacturers
Telepresence requires video network infrastructure, specialized cameras, codecs, and systems. Many telepresence deployments benefit from enhanced data collaboration tools that improve the ability to collaborate on specialized applications ranging from pharmaceutical research and development to film production.

• Cisco TelePresence Recording Server
• Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch
• HaiVision MAKO HD
• Teliris InterACT Collaboration Tools
• Vidyo

Telepresence Resellers and Systems Integrators
Telepresence resellers and systems integrators resell telepresence equipment and integrate custom designed solutions.

• ATK Services
• The Whitlock Group

Telepresence Consultants
All knowledge is specialized! A good telepresence consultant can help organizations save valuable time and treasure, future proof a deployment, and ensure that you get the best deal.

• Human Productivity Lab

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Digital Video Enterprises - Telepresence Stage

Overview- A portable, volumetric 3D display for presenting realistic life-size people that appear in the physical space of the room. It is ideal for events and training applications. The system is easily set-up and it can be rolled off stage in minutes. The entire system ingeniously overcomes the problems with older stage illusions that take days to set-up and require giant truss systems and screens that consume the entire stage.

Telepresence Options Solution Snapshot- http://www.TelepresenceOptions.com/TBD
DVE Official Website - http://www.digitalvideoenterprises.com/
DVE Company Profile - TBD

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Digital Video Enterprises - Telepresence Podium

Overview- The DVE Telepresence Podium creates the appearance that a person is standing at a podium even though they may be thousands of miles away. The system requires no special environmental changes and works under normal room lighting conditions. At the distant site the speaker uses a DVE eye contact solution and appears virtually with eye contact to the entire audience or classroom. No longer is a person's image relegated to the bounds of the borders of a rectangular screen.

The DVE Telepresence Podium was designed with rolling portability in mind. The front podium ledge and rear assembly are retracted in place in less than one minute! When closed, the DVE Telepresence Podium is compact and can roll through all normal doorways. Inside is an AV equipment space for codec and other gear.

The DVE Telepresence Podium can also be used as a 3-D appearing presentational system. Real objects or 3-D graphics when shaded and rotated appear solid in form and 3-dimensional. The DVE Telepresence Podium has been designed with the convenience of displaying either 4:3 or 16:9 source images.

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DVE Official Website - http://www.dvetelepresence.com/products/podium.asp
DVE Company Profile - TBD

 

Cisco TelePresence CTS 3000

Overview- A modular telepresence group system, accommodating up to 6 participants per room creating a virtual table for 12 participants when connected to another CTS 3000. The system features ultra high definition 1080p video delivered to three 65" plasma screens. Multi-channel CD-quality spatial audio comes from the direction of the remote participant that is speaking. This system will fit into an existing space with a minimum amount of make-ready and features an integrated table, lighting, microphone, and camera all optimized for the environment. Calls can be scheduled using groupware applications such as MS Outlook and Lotus Notes and then launched with the push of a button or launched ad-hoc by dialing another room's phone number from a handset in the room.

Telepresence Options Solution Snapshot- http://telepresenceoptions.com/cisco/solutionreview/cts3000/
Cisco Official Website - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps8333/index.html
Cisco Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/cisco/companyprofile/

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Digital Video Enterprises - Tele-Immersion Room

Overview- The DVE augmented reality telepresence meeting room represents the turning point technology for corporate communications. Real-size images of conference participants projected into the physical space of the room takes telepresence to a whole new level of experience.

DVE's patented technology unlocks a whole host of creative visual applications for corporations. The DVE immersion Room enables augmented reality visualization for telepresence as well as viewing 3-D images. The corporate presentational possibilities are endless and 10 foot wide floating product and 3-D model visualization creates a new category for the simulation market.

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DVE Official Website - http://www.digitalvideoenterprises.com/
DVE Company Profile - Coming Soon

Lifesize Communications - Conference 200

Overview- LifeSize Conference 200 is the first Full HD telepresence solution that can be tailored to the customer environment, providing organizations, integrators and AV consultants with a superior foundation to create custom telepresence suites. With 1080p30 and 720p60 resolution, life-size images and HD audio, LifeSize Conference 200 delivers an experience as real and immersive as being in the same room. Accommodating multiple displays, up to four HD cameras, and integrating a wireless control panel, LifeSize Conference 200 is standards-based and interoperable, enabling organizations to extend and maximize their HD video environment. At a fraction of the price and bandwidth of other telepresence systems, LifeSize Conference 200 provides the superior telepresence solution designed to fit exact customer requirements, budgets, and room environments.

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Lifesize Official Website - http://www.digitalvideoenterprises.com/
Lifesize Company Profile - Coming Soon

Polycom Telepresence Experience RPX HD

Overview- Polycom RPX HD solutions bring a fully immersive experience to large or medium-sized rooms and allow up to 28 participants per room to be virtually connected to other teams around the world. Featuring solutions for different space, applications, capacity, and budget requirements, the Polycom RPX HD allows you to apply intimate, effective collaboration to a broad range of applications including, executive meetings, employee training, client engagements, partner collaboration or higher education.

Polycom RPX solutions deliver a fully-immersive experience in an all-inclusive, acoustically tuned, luxury environment that features a panoramic seamless video wall for true-to-life, realistic interaction of all meeting participants - even while standing. These easy-to-use solutions provide a powerful combination of high definition video, audio and content sharing, and allow participants to focus on meeting topics, not the technology.

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Polycom Official Website - http://www.polycom.com/products/telepresence_video/telepresence_solutions/immersive_telepresence/rpx_hd200.html
Polycom Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/polycom/companyprofile/

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Polycom Telepresence Experience TPX HD

Overview- Whether you want to facilitate collaboration in a dispersed product development team or quickly reach mission critical decisions, Polycom TPX HD solutions bring an immersive telepresence experience to small or medium venues and allow up to 6 participants per room to be virtually connected to other small or medium teams around the world. Available in many configurations, the Polycom TPX HD solution is ideal for applications such as executive meetings, project management, client engagements or partner collaboration.

The easy-to-use Polycom TPX HD solutions allow you and other participants to focus on your meeting topics, not the technology, while communicating naturally and effectively. Polycom TPX HD meetings rely on true-to-life video, spatial audio, and interactive elements all within a specially designed environment that promotes realistic interaction with all meeting participants.

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Polycom Official Website - http://www.polycom.com/products/telepresence_video/telepresence_solutions/immersive_telepresence/tpx.html
Polycom Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/polycom/companyprofile/

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Tandberg T3

Overview- The TANDBERG T3 is a modular group telepresence system that seats up to 6 participants at each location.

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TANDBERG Official Website - http://www.tandberg.com/products/telepresence/tandberg-t3.jsp
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Telepresence Tech - TPT 4000

Overview- The TPT4000 is an eleven seat 3D TelePresence experience for correctly aligned eye contact with life-size attendees. The attendees are viewed directly on a massive seamless screen. Three additional screens provide an integrated collaboration solution for data sharing and multi-site conferences. The TPT Environment has specially designed walls and ceiling for optimal lighting and acoustics.

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Telepresence Tech Official Website - http://www.telepresencetech.com/prod-01.html
Telepresence Tech Company Profile - Coming Soon

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Teliris Express

Overview- Teliris Express Telepresence is a cost-effective telepresence solution designed for regional locations and smaller dual-purpose conference rooms. The portfolio includes three, two, or one screen solutions that fit into any existing conference room, with no build-out required, and accommodates up to 12 participants. Teliris Express Telepresence, an immersive three screen solution, retails for $135K - over 55% less than many competing systems!

The solution features broadcast quality, HD video at 30/60 frames per second, unique 65-inch HD displays, pod microphones, advanced audio processing, and is compatible with Teliris collaboration options for ultimate flexibility. Teliris Express Telepresence supports self-start and assisted-start via Teliris' end-to-end managed service.

All Teliris Telepresence solutions are based on its newly released 6G platform, a lightweight standards-based, client server software architecture enabled by next-generation robust video protocols, an advanced telepresence logic engine and low cost general purpose hardware. The platform extends telepresence affordably to far-reaching locations anywhere in the world by radically reducing both bandwidth costs and network complexity. Through the use of general purpose networks, Teliris' 6G Telepresence eliminates the need for engineered CoS-heavy networks which have historically accounted for 40% of the cost of telepresence. The platform features advanced rate adaption and error concealment technologies that dynamically manage frame rate, resolution, image quality and bandwidth to ensure that the experience at each endpoint is independently adjusted as network conditions vary. Teliris 6G Telepresence, for the first time, extends the telepresence experience from the boardroom to the desktop - delivering unmatched eyelines, roundtable multipoint experience, flexibility, reliability and interoperability and removes the barriers that have traditionally restrained telepresence from widespread adoption.

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Teliris Official Website - http://www.teliris.com/multipoint-telepresence-products.html
Teliris Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/teliris/companyprofile/

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Teliris VirtuaLive

Overview- Teliris VirtuaLive Telepresence is a group telepresence solution that creates an immersive and natural virtual meeting experience, accommodating up to 28 participants and from three to 8 screens per room. The solution fits into an existing conference room, or is available with a fully unified look across all rooms. Installed, fully managed and supported by Teliris to ensure optimum security, availability, and reliability, Teliris VirtuaLive Telepresence addresses a wide range of meeting environments, configured to wrap telepresence around each company's look and culture.

The solution is fully compatible with all Teliris Telepresence environments and Immersive Collaboration tools. Through the Teliris Telepresence Gateway, the solution interoperates with other telepresence systems and traditional videoconferencing systems from a myriad of vendors. Additionally, the solution incorporates Teliris' patented Advanced Virtual Vectoring technology that ensures accurate eye-lines for single and multiple location meetings.

Telepresence Options Solution Snapshot - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/teliris/solutionreview/virtualive/
Teliris Official Website - http://www.teliris.com/solution_technology.html
Teliris Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/teliris/companyprofile/

 

Cisco TelePresence CTS 3200

Overview- The Cisco TelePresence System 3200 enables organizations to host up to 18 meeting participants in a single large room. Ideal for large team meetings, cross functional meetings or training events, the Cisco TelePresence System 3200 delivers the superior video, audio and environmental features that create the immersive, face-to-face Cisco TelePresence experience.

Based on the proven, market-leading Cisco TelePresence System 3000 design, the Cisco TelePresence System 3200 extends the Cisco TelePresence portfolio from small, personal settings and intimate business meetings to large meeting rooms. Cisco TelePresence scales to fit your organization's meeting needs today and into the future. Applications for the Cisco TelePresence System 3200 include large team meetings, cross functional team meetings, or training events.

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Cisco Official Website - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9573/index.html
Cisco Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/cisco/companyprofile/

Polycom Telepresence Experience RPX 400 HD

Overview- Polycom RPX HD solutions bring a fully immersive experience to large or medium-sized rooms and allow up to 28 participants per room to be virtually connected to other teams around the world. Featuring solutions for different space, applications, capacity, and budget requirements, the Polycom RPX HD allows you to apply intimate, effective collaboration to a broad range of applications including, executive meetings, employee training, client engagements, partner collaboration or higher education.

Polycom RPX solutions deliver a fully-immersive experience in an all-inclusive, acoustically tuned, luxury environment that features a panoramic seamless video wall for true-to-life, realistic interaction of all meeting participants - even while standing. These easy-to-use solutions provide a powerful combination of high definition video, audio and content sharing, and allow participants to focus on meeting topics, not the technology.

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Polycom Official Website - http://www.polycom.com/products/telepresence_video/telepresence_solutions/immersive_telepresence/rpx_hd400.html
Polycom Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/polycom/companyprofile/

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Cisco TelePresence CTS 1000

Overview- The Cisco CTS 1000 is a modular small group telepresence system that can display two life-size primary participants. The system features ultra high definition 1080p video, a 65" high definition plasma screen display, CD-quality audio, and collaborative tools for sharing data. When connected with the company's flagship CTS 3000 the CTS 1000 participants are displayed on one of CTS 3000's screens the same size as participants connected via another CTS 3000 with the same directional audio and collaborative capabilities.

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Cisco Official Website - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps7073/index.html
Cisco Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/cisco/companyprofile/

Cisco TelePresence CTS 1300

Overview- The Cisco CTS 1300 brings the power of Cisco TelePresence to multipurpose conference rooms. With a streamlined, elegant design, one screen, and three cameras, the Cisco TelePresence System 1300 Series can support meetings with up to six people in a regular conference room.

All meeting participants are life-size and life-like in Cisco TelePresence calls -- and participation is effortless with automatic voice-activated switching. Built-in lighting produces high-quality, natural-looking video by eliminating facial shadows.

The Cisco TelePresence System 1300 Series provides the flexibility your business needs to deploy Cisco TelePresence throughout the organization. Nearly any conference room with its existing table can be used. Built-in support for audio conferencing and display for presentations provide extra value, while bandwidth needs are reduced to a single video stream of the active speakers for optimized ROI.

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Cisco Official Website - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10340/index.html
Cisco Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/cisco/companyprofile/

Digital Video Enterprises - Telepresence Huddle 70

Overview- The DVE Huddle Room is an elegant immersive conferencing system for meeting rooms throughout the enterprise. The DVE Huddle Room provides an eye level camera hidden behind the picture for real telepresence. The total solution is designed to enable close viewing of the large screen so that the imaged people appear to be on the other side of the table (not on the other side of the room).

This enables the DVE Huddle Room to have a smaller overall footprint and thereby permits placement in small meeting rooms. Based on numerous patents and research in human communication, the room creates a highly realistic roundtable conversational experience with real-size people.

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DVE Official Website - http://www.digitalvideoenterprises.com/
DVE Company Profile - Coming Soon

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Telepresence Tech - TPT 2000

Overview- The TPT2000 Conference system is a completely self-contained telepresence unit with aligned eye contact that does not require any room modifications. It is on casters to be easily moved into position. The conference system is designed to fit up to a conference table at a standard table height. The superimposed backdrop is behind the image plane for the telepresence participant so that there is a true depth relationship for a greater sense of presence. The direct view of the life-size image on the 52" monitor provides stunning quality compared to a reflected view.

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Telepresence Tech Official Website - http://www.telepresencetech.com/prod-02.html
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Cisco TelePresence CTS 500

Overview- The Cisco CTS 500 brings the power of Cisco TelePresence to multipurpose conference rooms. With a streamlined, elegant design, one screen, and three cameras, the Cisco TelePresence System 1300 Series can support meetings with up to six people in a regular conference room.

All meeting participants are life-size and life-like in Cisco TelePresence calls -- and participation is effortless with automatic voice-activated switching. Built-in lighting produces high-quality, natural-looking video by eliminating facial shadows.

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Cisco Official Website - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10340/index.html
Cisco Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/cisco/companyprofile/

Digital Video Enterprises - Silhouette

Overview- The DVE Eye Contact Silhouette is an ideal product solution to improve executive desktop telepresence with true eye contact. The patented optically embedded camera resolves the eye contact parallax problem so that participants are engaged in the conversation with true eye contact. The DVE Eye Contact Silhouette is designed as a flexible platform to meet the specific needs of the client's applications. For example, the Silhouette is commonly used with new powerful PC software videoconferencing codecs with embedded high-end web cameras. This makes for a very affordable desktop telepresence system that is far superior to web chat PC conferencing. The Silhouette can also be connected to appliance codecs that range from the low-end to the very high-end. The Silhouette is ideal for executives' desktops, and also unique applications such as; Bank sales terminals, Telemedicine endpoints, and a whole host of telepresence applications.

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DVE Official Website - http://www.digitalvideoenterprises.com/
DVE Company Profile - Coming Soon

Digital Video Enterprises - Executive (ETS)

Overview- DVE's Executive Telepresence System (ETS) is the culmination of more than a decade's effort in creating the world's best conferencing systems. Unlike web cameras and common videophones, the ETS delivers an amazingly realistic and natural experience. The ETS provides real-size images of people in high definition appearing to be sitting on the other side of your desk. The patented display, included with the ETS, ingeniously hides the HD camera behind the image so that perfect eye contact can be experienced among the participants. Legacy conferencing systems from other providers have a camera mounted on top of the display screen which creates the impression that people are looking down. The ETS also delivers the highest quality video and audio. Codecs, microphones and cameras from other vendors such as Life-Size, Polycom and Tandberg easily integrate into the ETS substantially improving their real world performance and increases user satisfaction.

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DVE Official Website - http://www.dvetelepresence.com/products/ets.asp
DVE Company Profile - Coming Soon

 

BT Conferencing

Overview- BT provides end-to-end video solutions tailored to their client's needs. Customer engagements leverage some or all elements of BT solutions that include: global deployment of telepresence end points from all the leading manufacturers, global IP networks connecting the endpoints, concierge services supporting the needs of the end user, bridging services, and management services that transforms a collection of assets into a high value IT service.

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BT Conferencing Official Website - http://www.btconferencing.com/btc/product_services/videoservices/
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Glowpoint Managed Telepresence Services

Overview- Glowpoint is a leading provider of VNOC managed services, delivering a complete solution for end-to-end management of telepresence and video conferencing environments. Glowpoint's VNOC services support all the major technologies on the market and include: proactive monitoring, fault management and remediation, call scheduling and launching, conference production, 24/7 help desk support and a full complement of performance reporting, advanced network monitoring, and other services for conferencing and unified communications.

Glowpoint's VNOC customers also gain access to one the world's largest global community of business video users through the B2B video exchange (Telepresence interExchange Network) that enables secure and high quality video communications over disparate networks and technologies. The VNOC service is available to customers and through its global partners who consists of resellers and wholesale (private label) channels.

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Glowpoint Official Website - http://www.glowpoint.com/TelepresenceSolutions.aspx
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Iformata Telepresence Managed Services

Overview- Iformata Communications is a telepresence managed service provider that provides managed network and managed services for Polycom RPX and TPX telepresence solutions, other telepresence systems, and both high definition and standard definition videoconferencing systems. The company's Telepresence Exchange allows clients to bring their networks to the exchange to reduce recurring cost of service and allows connection to the other members of the Iformata network.

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Iformata Official Website - http://www.iformata.com/
Iformata Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/iformata/companyprofile/

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Nortel Telepresence Solutions

Overview- Nortel Multimedia Services is a telepresence managed service provider that provides managed network and managed services for Polycom RPX and TPX telepresence solutions, other telepresence systems, and both high definition and standard definition videoconferencing systems.

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Nortel Official Website - http://products.nortel.com/go/product_content.jsp?segId=0&parId=1&prod_id=64202&catId=0&locale=en-US
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Verizon Business Managed Telepresence Services

Overview- Verizon Business is a leading provider of advanced communications and information technology (IT) solutions to large business and government customers worldwide. Verizon Business is an authorized reseller of multiple vendors' Telepresence equipment and offers professional services on its global MPLS network to support the design of a company's Immersive video solution. The company's MPLS network, called Private IP, is available in more than 121 countries and territories.

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Verizon Business Official Website - http://www.verizonbusiness.com/us/conferencing/video/
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Glowpoint

Overview- Glowpoint's video service network is relied upon and used by thousands of businesses across the globe, including Fortune 500 Enterprises, Professional and Legal Firms, Healthcare Educations and Government Institutions, and a host of SMBs. The Telepresence interExchange Network (TEN) provides secure and seamless two way video communications for all video and telepresence technologies. Access to the exchange is provided through several connectivity options, which include 1) native internet, 2) peered network providers, 3) direct private enterprise network inter-connect, 4) overlay network provided by Glowpoint's QoS IP network service. The services available include telephony like features and patented technologies which provide dial plan management, gateway services, SD and HD multi-point conferencing, live video operators, interactive video call messaging, and video mail. TEN customers can see and talk to virtually anyone, anywhere around the world - regardless of network, technology, or device.

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Glowpoint Official Website - http://www.glowpoint.com/TelepresenceSolutions.aspx
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Hibernia Atlantic

Overview- Hibernia Atlantic is a privately held, US-owned, transatlantic submarine cable network providing "Security through Diversity" to European and US customers. Hibernia Atlantic's redundant rings include access to Dublin, Manchester, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris, New York City, White Plains, Stamford, Newark, Ashburn, Boston, Albany, Halifax, Montreal and more. Hibernia provides dedicated Ethernet and optical level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional Sonet/SDH services.

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Hibernia Atlantic Official Website - http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/
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Iformata Communications Telepresence Exchange

Overview- Iformata's Telepresence Exchange provides clients' with business-to-business interconnectivity between diverse telepresence and legacy video systems. Our technicians ensure seamless and interoperable performance across disparate equipment, carriers, networks, and geographic locations. Through international peering relationships with major providers, and by integrating points-of-presence (POPs) throughout the US, UK, Europe, and India, Iformata's Telepresence Exchange is the leading video communications network connecting global Fortune 500 firms within a highly managed architecture.

Associates, partners, clients, prospects - whomever you need to connect with - Iformata's Telepresence Exchange frees your business from the limitations of phone or email and replaces them with the power of face-to-face communication.

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Iformata Official Website - http://www.iformata.com/
Iformata Company Profile - http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/iformata/companyprofile/

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MASERGY Global Network for High Performance Video

Overview- MASERGY has redefined global enterprise telepresence and videoconferencing by delivering exceptional video transport, unsurpassed service guarantees and a superior customer experience. MASERGY provides flawless performance for Telepresence, high definition or standard video communications to any customer location.

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Masergy Official Website - http://www.masergy.com/
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MASERGY Video Extranet

Overview- MASERGY's Video Extranet offers seamless video networking across disparate networks on multiple carriers while maintaining complete QoS and security.

The MASERGY Video Extranet is a global video connectivity platform that enables secure, superior quality videoconferencing across multi-carrier and multi-protocol boundaries.

Benefits for enterprises implementing MASERGY's Video Extranet service include: Seamless B2B communication among enterprises on separate private networks, High-quality video communications between corporations on different IP carriers, Interoperability of various application equipment in a secure network environment, Maximum ROI for expensive video conferencing devices and space.

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Masergy Official Website - http://www.masergy.com/
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telx

Overview- telx provides carrier neutral Meet-me-Room and Core Interconnection Facilities in North America. Enterprise telepresence customers and telepresence network and managed service providers can collocate in telx facility for direct connections to a variety of telepresence and VoIP Community of Interest Networks (CoINS). Telx has facilities in Atlanta, GA, Charlotte, NC Chicago, IL - 350 E. Cermak Road, Chicago, IL - 600 S. Federal Street, Dallas, TX, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, NYC - 60 Hudson Street, NYC - 111 Eighth Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, San Francisco, CA, Santa Clara, CA, Weehawken, NJ.

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telx Official Website - http://www.telx.com
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Verizon Business

Overview- Verizon Business provides managed network services for telepresence and videoconferencing systems. The company's Private IP Layer 3 MPLS network is available in over 115 countries.

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Verizon Business Official Website - http://www.verizonmarketing.com/bsg/dataIP/privateIP.aspx
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Virtela

Overview- Virtela, the global network solutions company, leverages its multi-carrier MPLS network spanning 190+ countries to enable secure video communications within enterprises and between business partners via its Secure Video Extranet service. Both converged services as well as dedicated solutions are available to deliver exceptional video conferencing quality for telepresence, high definition or standard definition applications, all backed by leading service guarantees. Virtela's global videoconferencing services can span installation, LAN and WAN integration, 24x7 proactive monitoring and management, bridging, scheduling, call launching and operator assistance services.

Virtela's Global Service Fabric (GSF) network is comprised of Regional Policy Centers (RPCs) around the world that aggregate and integrate hundreds of networks, leveraging private connectivity between carriers. The GSF delivers packets in sequence and offers prioritization of traffic via class of service options for optimal video performance. This architecture is also ideal for corporate extranets, ensuring that businesses on disparate networks can connect via secure, high quality connection points critical to support bandwidth-intensive applications such as HD videoconferencing and telepresence solutions.

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Virtela Official Website - http://www.virtela.com
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Cisco TelePresence Recording Server

Overview- The Cisco TelePresence Recording Server transforms Cisco TelePresence into a high-definition recording studio. Via an intuitive user interface, you can create and deliver high-quality video for rich, compelling internal or external communications such as organizational updates, training or crisis management. Distributing and viewing video content is instant and easy, and you can replay recordings on Cisco TelePresence endpoints or standard Web browser players.

Cisco TelePresence Recording Server supports 24 simultaneous recording and playback sessions and can store over 300 hours of high-definition 1080p video recordings. Recordings can be archived automatically on a schedule or transferred to a digital content management system such as the Cisco Digital Media System's Cisco Digital Media Manager. In combination with the Media Experience Engine 3000, the Cisco TelePresence Recording Server can deliver Cisco TelePresence recordings to any video-enabled device including PCs, smartphones and digital signs.

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Cisco Official Website - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10340/index.html
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Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch

Overview- The Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch solution allows geographically dispersed organizations to hold Cisco TelePresence meetings across multiple locations reliably and easily. With support for up to 96 people in a single meeting across a mix of endpoints, the switch allows all participants to be seen in life-like, high-definition video and heard in CD-quality, spatial audio combined with the industry's lowest latency.

As part of the Cisco TelePresence solution, the multipoint switch allows you to connect through 48 single-screen Cisco TelePresence System 500 or Cisco TelePresence System 1000 endpoints, 16 three-screen Cisco TelePresence System 3000 or Cisco TelePresence System 3200 endpoints, or a mix of both in a single meeting. The industry-leading design of the Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch delivers voice-activated switching either site-by-site (site switching) or by individual table segment (segment switching). It is an affordable appliance that is also easy to install and manage.

True to the user-friendly Cisco TelePresence design, multipoint meetings are scheduled using enterprise groupware (such as Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes), and they start with just a push of a button on the meeting-room phone. It is simple-there is no need for support personnel to set up meetings for you. Organizations can connect participants quickly and easily with multiple locations in the same meeting, empowering you to communicate and collaborate like never before.

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Cisco Official Website - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10340/index.html
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Electrosonic VN-Matrix

Overview- The Company's VN-Matrix video and graphics codec encodes or decodes real-time computer graphic sources and/or video at resolutions up to HD or WUXGA. VN-MATRIX produces visually lossless, "uncompressed" image qualities with low delay, ensuring lifelike, natural interaction for person-person Telepresence or man-machine, computer based collaboration, command and control, simulation or visualization applications.

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Electrosonic Official Website - http://www.vn-matrix.com/
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HaiVision MAKO-HD

Overview- HaiVision delivers telepresence-grade video codecs including the MAKO-HD, an extremely low latency H.264 codec and the hai500 series of low latency MPEG-2 video codecs. The company's also provides solutions for high performance video streaming as well.

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HaiVision Official Website - http://www.haivision.com
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Teliris InterACT Collaboration Tools

Overview- Teliris' Immersive Collaboration options are most extensive suite of immersive collaboration products available in the market designed to extend the value of the Teliris Telepresence experience with tools to enable human interaction beyond the video and audio domains. Teliris Immersive Collaboration Options are natural, intuitively easy to use, and all follow common architecture principles developed by Teliris that defines surface, location, content, and user persona.

Physical-to-digital and digital-to-physical transferal capabilities integrate the two separate worlds of content. The content, in turn, is independent from the underlying display surface and - of course - location. Teliris' Immersive Collaboration Options are available in a wide variety of formats and features to align with use cases and all are multipoint-enabled to allow the experience to extend to any number of locations. All collaboration options are covered by Teliris Telepresence Managed Services for a reliable, secure, and highly available collaborative experience.

Teliris' suite of immersive collaboration tools include: Teliris InterACT TouchTable and TouchWall, Teliris InterACT Easel, Teliris InterACT Presentation, Teliris InterACT Document Routing, Teliris InterACT Lectern, Teliris InterACT Document Camera, Teliris InterACT Blu-Ray/DVD.

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Teliris Official Website - http://www.teliris.com/telepresence-collaboration-tools.html
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Vidyo

Overview- Vidyo brings the price, performance and quality of video conferencing in line with user expectations by applying Vidyo's unique intellectual property that leverages the recently approved H.264/SVC standard - Scalable Video Coding. The result is a VidyoConferencing solution that delivers HD/Telepresence quality at the industry's best resilience and lowest latency over converged IP networks.

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VIdyo Official Website - http://www.vidyo.com/
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ATK Services

Overview- ATK Services designs custom telepresence applications around a variety of videoconferencing and telepresence display platforms. The company works with all leading manufacturers to provide solutions for a global clientele.

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ATK Services Official Website - http://www.atkservices.com
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The Whitlock Group

Overview- The Whitlock Group is a systems integration firm focused on the design, procurement, engineering, installation and service of audiovisual, videoconferencing, video-streaming, digital signage, video-production and broadcast solutions. As a systems integration firm, The Whitlock Group delivers complete solutions that seamlessly integrate the audio, video, display and system controls to create unique and compelling multimedia solutions.

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Whitlock Group Official Website - http://www.whitlock.com
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The Human Productivity Lab

Overview- The Human Productivity Lab is the leading telepresence consulting firm for global Fortune 5000 corporations across a broad range of industry sectors like financial institutions, multinational telecommunications and pharmaceutical companies. The Lab was founded by Howard S. Lichtman, a productivity-focused technologist who advises firms how to successfully deploy telepresence to enhance internal and external communications cut costs and improve environmental responsibility by reducing business travel, and increase organizational productivity and bottom line revenue.

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HPL Official Website - http://www.humanproductivitylab.com
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