By Mariette Johnson Wharton, VP of Marketing
In a business environment, most people are looking for not only business-grade video and audio but more than 2-way video conferencing. Up until now, companies would have to buy an expensive video conferencing bridge and then risk exposing bridge credentials to third parties if they wanted to include partners or customers in their video conferences.
There’s also the problem of interoperability. You may have a system from one vendor and seek to connect to a third-party with different technology. Today, very few small-to-medium-sized enterprises have sufficient in-house resources for business-grade multi-point video conferencing. The equipment and know-how required is too resource-intensive for most organizations.
Vidtel now has a Multi-Point Video Conferencing Service that addresses these problems. It’s a cost-effective, hosted, outsourced solution that a business of any size will find accessible. Vidtel’s multi-point video conferencing service lets you video conference with multiple, external parties without having an expensive bridge to maintain. We solve the interoperability problem by integrating various video conferencing endpoints. We manage, upgrade and configure secure multi-point video conferencing bridges, co-location facilities and the network.
The Vidtel Multi-Point Video Conferencing service provides even a small business with:
- Instant 3-way (or more) high-quality video conferencing without spending thousands of dollars
- A ten-digit number and PIN to easily dial in to a bridge
- Firewall access for remote workers and third-parties
- The ability to be at your desk or home office and simply dial into a video conference from your “desktop” video phone
Vidtel has teamed up with SimpleSignal, a visionary service provider of hosted telephone systems for businesses (http://www.simplesignal.com). Vidtel’s multi-way video conferencing service integrates SimpleSignal’s BroadSoft® BroadWorks® application server with Vidtel’s video conferencing service and Polycom® VVXTM 1500 business media phones. The service enables three or more VVX 1500s to connect via a simple dial-in number for instant multi-way video conferencing.
SimpleSignal will market Vidtel’s Hosted Multi-Point Video Conferencing Service to SimpleSignal’s hosted unified communications customers beginning in Q2 2010. Visit http://www.simplesignal.com for information on subscribing to the service.
