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December Newsletter 2011

Cisco Boosts Higher Education — Polycom Announces HD Video Solutions — LifeSize Brings Enterprise-Class Video — Virtual Doctor — Top 10 Tips for Making Video Part of Your Collaboration Strategy — Polycom Mobile runs on Apple iOS

Cisco Boosts Higher Education Teaching with Video Solutions

Educators and students turn to Video Guidance and Cisco® to capture, transform and share video content. Cisco recently announced the release of Cisco Lecture Vision, a new solution that can help educators create, manage and share educational content with their students. With the increase in learning environments that combine in-person instruction with virtual interaction, universities are selecting Video Guidance and Cisco to implement world-class video-enabled learning environments for their students and educators.

As higher education institutions seek ways to take advantage of existing investments and ensure their graduates are prepared for the competitive global economy of the 21st century, video has become a critical tool in the classroom. Expertise in network technologies and scaling video applications helps colleges and universities remain competitive as virtual learning experiences are growing in popularity.
Many educational organizations have invested in Cisco video solutions in order to capture, transform and share course content with students both within and beyond traditional classroom settings. Cisco Lecture Vision can help maximize current investments in campus network and existing technology and enables:

The capability to capture live and recorded lectures in HD to be easily accessed by students anywhere, at any time, on any device, including PCs, smart phones, and tablets.
Simplified ability to brand and edit content to improve the quality of video production.
Creation of video libraries, with simple tagging, archiving, and retrieval of stored video assets.
Integration and interoperability with the existing classroom experience, including interactive whiteboards during the capture process, allowing institutions to maximize current investments.

Cisco Lecture Vision solution meets the specific needs of educators and students with an elegant integration that is easier for IT managers to deploy. The traditional mode and model of education is fundamentally changing because of technology and today's learners' needs and demands. Video is fast becoming the way we acquire information and learn these days, and as educational institutions, it is important to adapt to your clientele.

Video Guidance is responding to the growing needs of our education customers in order to enable distance learning initiatives and provide students with access to additional content and resources. The strength of the Video Guidance technology partnership and our hosted services is allowing educational institutions to feel comfortable with scaling their video technology investments in order to reap the benefits of blended learning environments.

Polycom Announces HD Video Solutions Interoperable with Microsoft Lync

Polycom® has announced the CX7000 – the first room video collaboration solution custom-built for full integration with Microsoft® Lync™ that will help create seamless experiences for employees, partners, and customers.

The Polycom CX7000 is the first video collaboration solution to be qualified by Microsoft as "optimized for Microsoft Lync.” In addition, Polycom is testing Polycom RealPresence™ Immersive room systems for Microsoft Lync interoperability. These solutions will offer customers a broad set of choices – more than 40 systems – to enhance their Microsoft Lync environments to make collaborating by video or content-sharing easier, from the board room to the desktop or on-the-go.

Connecting Microsoft and Polycom solutions for IM/presence, web conferencing, video, content-sharing, and other UC applications into an interoperable environment enables users to quickly find each other, launch video calls easily and intuitively within Microsoft Lync, and share content via Microsoft Lync to Polycom HD video systems.

The Polycom CX7000 video collaboration system – the
latest addition to the company's groundbreaking Polycom
CX line – takes the Microsoft Lync experience customers
are familiar with on their PCs and recreates it in the conference room to provide a higher level of business collaboration and productivity with enhanced simplicity for end users. The solution offers all of the Microsoft Lync features customers want (presence, IM, online meetings, content collaboration) coupled with Polycom's industry-leading room video collaboration solutions in a simplified video system. With especially tight integration between the Polycom and Microsoft solutions, customers get an intuitive interface and a seamless HD video experience. Users are able to click on a calendar event to instantaneously join meetings and, with simple conference leader controls, users can easily see presence and drag-and-drop participants into the call for more productive and efficient meetings.

The Polycom CX7000 solution delivers a competitive advantage for you, helping to drive
company-wide gains in productivity, efficiency, and innovation. For more information on Polycom/Microsoft-optimized solutions, please contact your Video Guidance sales representative or visit wwwvidoeguidance.com.

LifeSize Brings Enterprise-Class Video Conferencing to iPhone 4S

LifeSize® ClearSea™ adds immediate iOS 5 support, enabling anytime, anywhere enterprise video calling on a broad range of devices. LifeSize recently announced that LifeSize ClearSea, an enterprise-class desktop and mobile video conferencing platform, now supports iOS 5 and will soon feature support for the new iPhone 4S. Users will be able to instantly connect from any iPhone, including iPhone 4S to any standards-based video conferencing system.

LifeSize continues to work to extend open, interoperable video collaboration solutions to anyone, anywhere, on any device. LifeSize is bringing enterprise-class mobile video to market and driving adoption, with video calling apps available today for a wealth of iOS and Android-based mobile devices from Apple, Dell, Google, HTC, Motorola and Samsung. As a result, LifeSize is now offering to the enterprise video conferencing market natively interoperable video calling from the conference room to the PC and Mac as well as to iOS 5 and a broad range of smartphones and tablets.

LifeSize ClearSea is an enterprise-class client/server solution for desktop and mobile videocollaboration. Because it’s open and interoperable, users can seamlessly connect from their desktops or mobile devices to any H.323 or SIP-based video conferencing system or infrastructure solution in seconds. LifeSize ClearSea Server is available as a hardware appliance or virtual machine software and includes a state-of-the-art HD desktop client for PC/Mac and Android/iOS mobile devices as well as NAT/firewall traversal and multi-party conferencing capability.

Video Guidance is a reseller of LifeSize ClearSea products. Video Guidance is also committed to partnering with innovative partners to extend the highest-quality video conferencing capabilities to anyone, anywhere. For more information, please contact your Video Guidance sales representative.

Virtual Doctor: How Video Conferencing is Changing Medicine

11/21/2011
Virtual Doctor: How Video Conferencing is Changing Medicine
Staff; BizTech Magazine

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With video conferencing, medicine goes global. Content, collaboration and connectivity are at the core of the Seattle Science Foundation’s mission. So it’s no wonder that the organization uses high-definition video conferencing to enable medical professionals from around the world to work together.

Polycom Mobile runs on Apple iOS and Android devices.

10/12/11
Polycom adds table videoconferencing
By Robert Mullins, InformationWeek

Videoconferencing system provider Polycom is joining a host of competitors and adding tablet computers to the array of desktop and room systems that can be used for participating in a video conference call.

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