Video conferencing goes mobile, with ... - Westron Communications

by Best in UC on 29/08/11 at 4:12 pm

This article first appeared on Best in UC.

LifeSize has launched new tools to allow its customers to go mobile.

In July, Logitech, the parent company of LifeSize, acquired Mirial. This small Italian firm developed software to expand video conferencing to smartphones and tablets.

Now, following close on the heels of the acquisition, LifeSize is introducing a new product to the market called LifeSize ClearSea Server. Available as a hardware appliance or virtual machine software, ClearSea includes a state-of-the-art HD desktop client for the PC or Mac, as well as Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.

LifeSize touts the new ClearSea offering as a method to create universal video collaboration with true mobility. It can be deployed and scaled across the enterprise for organizations that need to broadly deploy HD video to hundreds or even thousands of users. With ClearSea, any desktop or mobile device can be connected to the meeting room.

The Mirial acquisition was intended to create an advantage for LifeSize over other major industry players that do not offer a mobile video conferencing solution. LifeSize says its competitors, including Polycom and Cisco, cannot offer comparable mobile technology.

?The advent of mobile devices has created a new anytime, anywhere office environment ? burdening businesses with a fresh set of communications needs and challenges,? said Gerald P. Quindlen, Logitech president and chief executive officer. ?Acquiring Mirial makes Logitech uniquely positioned to address these needs by equipping businesses with a complete HD video conferencing solution spanning the mobile device to the desktop to the conference room. This acquisition is a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to make video communication as ubiquitous as voice-only calls are today.?

Before the Mirial acquisition, LifeSize offered a desktop client that could be used to call into a video conference. This feature is somewhat limited, however, since it works only on a Windows PC.

In contrast, the new mobile technology from Mirial offers anyone, anywhere video collaboration. It can run on PC or Mac, and Mirial can support a broad range of iOS and Android devices including the iPhone 4, 3GS and iPad 2; HTC EVO, Desire, Incredible, myTouch 4G, Sensation and ThunderBolt; Motorola Atrix and Xoom; Samsung Epic 4G, Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab as well as Google Nexus S and Dell Streak.

Companies are increasingly expecting their business-class video conferencing solutions to work on both tablets and smartphones. With shipments of tablets into the enterprise expected to reach more than 49 million in 2015, according to Frost & Sullivan, support for video collaboration on these devices has become a key customer requirement.

With Mirial, LifeSize now offers customers true mobility with interoperable enterprise video conferencing software solutions for distributed desktop and mobile users, taking video collaboration one step closer to true ubiquity.

Mirial products will continue to be integrated into future LifeSize products and services, enabling new and existing customers to enhance their video calling networks, reaching more people on more devices.

Source: http://westronblog.com/video-conferencing-goes-mobile-with-lifesize/

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