Video Conferencing

On ething i foud with Polycomm, DON'T GO TO THiER DEMOS.

Make them demo onsite at YOUR office.

I had a demo at teh Polycomm ofice in Vancouver once, it was like watching live TV. I asked what bandwidth they had plugged in and they said BRI. well after looking at the router, I noticed 5 BRI lines !!

dropping it to a single BRI, which many ran phone networks on, made it aepar like a $25.00 web cam in a kiddie chat room.

Polycomm does have some decent voice recognition systems in their VC solutions but you REALLY have to consider bandwidth first and make sure it is equivalent to your own. they make a good camera with great depth and contrast to it, the mikes are excellent etc. But you need the pipe to get it streamig right.

also make sure the equipment on the other end is up to snuff too, or else your investment is wasted.

good luck,

Last year I implemented a video conference solution at our company. I had no prior experience at all. I stayed away from polycom because I wanted a total hardware solution. My understanding was that you needed servers to make the polycom's work and I did not want to deal with that. Tandberg is really really nice and really really expensive. At the same time Sony came out with a new product line that the vendor I was working with felt comfortable in selling. (I guess prior solutions from them were less than stellar) I ended up with the the SONY PCS/P1 solution. You could purchase what hardware components you needed, I bought codec/microphone/data commport. It can do either isdn or network based. It is working very very well for us, we communicate out of the country. It is intuitive and easy to use. The only thing I ran into was when I needed to add a third location to the mix, (multipoint) and to do so I needed to purchase a key to unlock that feature in the codec. (my lack of understanding, not the vendor's lack of information). I would recommend looking at the SONY as long as you are doing the research, tandberg like quality but at less the price. Don't mean to make your search harder but thought you should know. Good Luck

Listen. I am a sales rep for a new product/service for video conferencing over IP. The service was designed to be flexible, portable, compatable, inexpensive, and yet deliver premium quality point-to-point along with bridging capability. We have been up against poly and tand and win hands down every time. check it out if you want.
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