May 22, 2006

RADVISION Enhances SCOPIA Conferencing Platform for Unified Communications Market

By Laura Stotler, TMCnet Contributing Editor

RADVISION has announced the latest generation of its SCOPIA platform and iVIEW Suite management application as part of its solutions for the unified communications market. The new release establishes benchmarks for affordable and powerful media processing along with superior audio and video quality for conference creation and management.

The new platform is consists of a suite of Multipoint Control Units (MCUs) and gateway products that incorporate a new hardware design and enhanced architecture. It offers improved ease-of-use, better video quality and flexible configuration and scalability options.

The iVIEW Suite manages the SCOPIA components and conferencing endpoints and provides advanced conferencing functions like management, scheduling services and distributed processing for unified conferencing applications. New unified communications features and functionality include separate negotiation of optimal audio and video capabilities per connection. The platform also support conferences of up to 2 Mbps and offers unlimited H.264 support for enhanced video quality.

Additional features include built-in 4CIF image resolution. Customers may also select the capacity they need, ranging from 12 to 384 video ports on a single chassis, or up to 1,728 audio ports. The platform also offers SIP and H.323 support and adaptable ISDN/PSTN/3G/IP connectivity.

"We are extremely excited about delivering the market the new SCOPIA platform. The world of communications is undergoing dramatic change. Customers are demanding unified voice, video and data capabilities no matter where they are - in a conference room, at their desks or while they are mobile," said Boaz Raviv, RADVISION's CEO. "RADVISION understands this need and SCOPIA and iVIEW are at the core of our strategy to provide the industry with the most comprehensive communication platform and advanced management software available from anyone."

"As long term customers, we were very pleased when given the opportunity to beta test the new SCOPIA platform and iVIEW application," said Dan Tanel CTO for BCS Global Networks. "Our customers continue to raise the bar and demand highly available, reliable and easy-to-use managed video and collaboration services. The SCOPIA platform delivers on these needs and will be a strategic component within our global video architecture to meet our requirements for a high quality, scalable and feature rich platform."

"SCOPIA and iVIEW represent RADVISION's continued commitment to the enterprise conferencing market," said Bob Romano, vice president of enterprise marketing for RADVISION. "With this technology, we are positioned to maintain our commanding lead as the premier, multi-party conferencing provider for workflow and collaboration environments."

Laura Stotler writes about IP Communications and related topics for TMCnet. She has covered VoIP and related technologies for seven years, contributing to Internet Telephony magazine and TMCnet, and as a freelance writer. To see more articles, please visit: Laura Stotler’s columnist page.

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