Video Conferencing Services

Description

Video Conferencing

The video conferencing market has traditionally been supplied by a handful of suppliers of complete video conferencing solutions consisting of the vendor’s own video-enabled terminals or desktop software clients integrated with a centralized Video MCU (Multimedia Conferencing Unit). Video MCU products are typically proprietary integrations of the video conferencing application and the underlying video processing hardware. These solution-based video conferencing offerings limit third-party feature enhancements, and constrain the reuse of the video processing resources with other applications. The result is a relatively expensive single service solution with limited flexibility to integrate into broader enterprise unified communication service capabilities.

RadiSys Convedia Media Servers Support Open IP-Based Video Conferencing Solutions

RadiSys Convedia media servers are bringing open VoIP architecture benefits and cost efficiencies to the video communications development community.

In a next-generation video conferencing solution using a RadiSys Convedia media server, the functions of a traditional MCU are decomposed and replaced with individual “best-of-breed” functional components, which are interconnected using open, standards-based interfaces. Video application and signal processing are now hosted on an application server, which is functionally separated from the actual video media packet processing. RadiSys Convedia media servers provide powerful video conferencing modes and features based on leading video and audio codec standards and file formats; this maximizes the interoperability with open video-enabled terminals, soft-clients, and 3G phones. The application server controls the RadiSys Convedia media server using SIP and Media Server Markup Language (MSML), a powerful and extensible SIP-based control interface specifically designed for feature-rich IP media server control.