Immersive video conferencing, the latest generation of video conferencing, is significantly impacting communications in the business marketplace. Bridging distance gaps is quickly becoming reality with immersive technology, and is positioning companies with the ability to create communication environments that are as natural as face-to-face interaction.

Effectively touching critical audiences such as employees, customers, partners, and stakeholders is an additional advantage of immersive video conferencing, which has already become commonplace for many top global companies utilizing the technology. Whether a meeting includes a few or several people, with immersive video conferencing you have the ability to communicate with real-life clarity, accurate color, and high-quality voice response.

Immersive video conferencing also minimizes cost restraints associated with expanding business reach, travel delays, and lost productivity, and the technology provides organizations with the added benefit of diminishing their carbon footprint and strategically enhancing their social responsibility.

At Wire One, we simplify your ability to experience Immersive Video Conferencing. Our focus is on creating a immersive conferencing environment that is easy to use, reliable, and cost effective, and that delivers the high-impact communication required for your business success.

Wire One offers a host of leading immersive conferencing solutions, which we couple with our award-winning scalable service programs that are tailored to your specific video conferencing, infrastructure, and user requirements.

Our partner solutions include:

Cisco TelePresence Solutions

The Cisco TelePresence solution is designed to deliver Business Transformation to customers. It provides many advantages, including the following:

• In-person experience – increases utilization of non-verbal human factors
• Improved decision making/improved trust
• Improved employee/customer/ partner/supplier relationships
• Next generation productivity
• Increased focus on new business models for support, sales engineering, etc.
• Improved reach/agility/lead time to meetings
• Business continuity: disasters/pandemics, etc…
• Less travel, and equally effective, high-quality communication
• Technology will apply to applications in all markets and verticals in many forms over time
• Work: virtual meeting, virtual specialists in remote branches, virtual assistants
• Live: Virtual health care, telemedicine
• Play: Being at the game while dining at a restaurant
• Learn: Virtual teachers in remote classrooms
• Enabling new business model examples (no limits)
• Investment Banks
• NY and London Exchange
• Virtual Window for traders
• Form Factors: CTS3000 & CTS1000
• Flexibility of Installation and Construction
• Requirements for the CTS3000 allow customers to make changes to an existing conference room to enable it as a TelePresence room
• Easy to Use Interfaces – Wire One’s engage Suite, Outlook Integration & One button Call
• Launch from IP Phone
• True HD capability – Highest Level of Resolution 1080P
• Multipoint Support – Up to 36 screens seen at Life Size

The Polycom Telepresence Solution

Polycom offers a complete portfolio of high definition telepresence solutions over IP networks ranging from personal telepresence solutions to immersive telepresence solutions. Each Polycom telepresence environment offers a common set of attributes that are consistent from one solution to the next. All of the solutions exemplify extraordinary realism from UltimateHD™. With the implementation of HD Video, HD Voice and HD Content, the telepresence experience goes beyond your typical visual communication. The well-designed environments are calibrated and tuned such that people are life-like and true-to-size, giving the illusion of being together in the same room. Through supporting IP network and services, each suite is guaranteed the highest level of quality and reliability. Most importantly, every Polycom telepresence solution is standards based and fully interoperable with all standards based video communication solutions.

The following are features and benefits of the Polycom telepresence solutions:

• No need for room construction:
• RPX is room-within-a room
• Everything from projector mounts, to camera and lighting halo are stand-alone
• TPX is modular for ease of installation
• Standards-based video:
• Allows for multi-point conferences with non-RPX rooms
• Rear-projection creates a more seamless video wall (RPX)
• Full HD Video capability – 720p resolution
• HD Audio quality with up to 22khz sound delivery
• Uses standard Polycom HDX codecs for ease in support
• Integrated Crestron control panel makes interacting with the system user-friendly
• Easy and seamless integration of content into the system:
• Desktop included LCD monitors mimic the feel of viewing content on a laptop computer
• Multiple options available for screen numbers and seating options (RPX):
• 2 to 4 screens with room for 4 to 28 people in tiered seating

The TANDBERG Telepresence Solution

TANDBERG offers Experia, a standards-based, flexible telepresence experience that is both easy to install and implement. Experia™ is available for existing conference room spaces or custom collaboration environments. The solution includes:

• High-definition video with TANDBERG PrecisionHD™ cameras
• True-to-life participants on three, large HD plasma screens
• Transparent, standards based technology
• One-touch control; easy to use

TANDBERG Experia makes meeting participants feel as though they’re having a conversation with colleagues right across the table—while being miles or continents apart.

TANDBERG Experia addresses current obstacles to broad telepresence adoption while providing the most natural communication experience possible. The Experia advantage rests with its ability to adapt to multiple environments and to interoperate with other standards-based video systems, providing the telepresence experience to a wider market. By placing Experia on an existing or managed network and making minor room adjustments, an executive’s conference room can be transformed into a telepresence studio.

With Experia, executives engaged in a telepresence meeting can also reach colleagues and experts that may not have access to a telepresence room. With a focus on interoperability, TANDBERG continues to enable all members of the organization to benefit from visual communication.