RadiSys (News - Alert) Corporation, a provider of open, standards-based media server platforms and advanced embedded solutions, has introduced new video conferencing enhancements to its Convedia media server family.

 

Company says that its Convedia media server’s new “continuous presence” (CP) video conferencing mode supports multiple real-time video streams within a unified multi-pane display, delivering an “immersive” video experience for desktop conferencing users.

 

For the conferencing application developers, CP video adds a new mode of video conferencing support for video. The new CP video conferencing capability includes parameters to border size and colors, and also active speaker highlights.

 

With this announcement, company’s officials said that RadiSys now offers an alternative video conferencing capability ideally suited for immersive desktop unified communications offerings.

 

The RadiSys Convedia CMS-9000 media server already supports Voice-Activated Switching (VAS) so that all video conference participants see an identical real-time video stream of the active speaker.

 

“RadiSys continues to build out its vision of the IP media server being a versatile, shared media processing platform in a multi-service VoIP and IMS deployment,” said David Smith, general manager of the Media Service Business Unit at RadiSys, adding that this new video feature is yet another example of RadiSys’ penetration into a broader range of VoIP and real-time video communication markets.

 

“Our continuous presence video conferencing feature delivers an open standards-based approach for application developers to offer feature-rich video conferencing services,” said Smith.

 

The company has made the new capability for the RadiSys CMS-9000 Media Server at no additional charge. Company informs that video conferencing capabilities supporting both H.263 and H.264/MPEG4 (Part 10) video codecs are currently available for the RadiSys Convedia CMS-9000 media server.

 

Commenting on the introduction of CP video conferencing capability, Andrew W. Davis, managing Partner at Wainhouse Research, said that multi-service IP media servers play an important and growing role in service provider Voice over IP (VoIP) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) (IMS) deployments.

 

He also said that adding video mixing capabilities such as continuous presence video conferencing, and enabling the control of these capabilities through open standards-based interfaces, brings significant benefits to application service providers who wish to add video conferencing capabilities rapidly to their unified communications solutions.