Infrastructure – the Key to Enabling Seamless Unified Communications

 

Ian Hawkins - Tandberg

 

Abstract

The key to enabling seamless Unified Communications with participants both inside and outside your organisation is creating a Visual Communications infrastructure that provides interoperability and compatibility with systems from multiple vendors. 

In this workshop TANDBERG will demonstrate how to provide transparent communication between any SIP and H.323 endpoint.  Additionally using firewall traversal solutions TANDBERG will show how to enable video calls from any network to any endpoint. This will be shown using the TANDBERG Video Communications Server (VCS) and the TANDBERG Codian MCU.

The TANDBERG Codian MCU is the leading solution in the Education marketplace for providing High Definition (HD) multi party conferencing; Codian supports the highest video resolution, speed, frame rate and codec of the latest HD endpoints.  This includes full continuous presence for all conferences, including those with a mix of both HD and SD.  When coupled with the TANDBERG Management Suite, the TANDBERG VCS uses ITU standard H.460.18/19 for H.323 calls and IETF STUN traversal technology to provide seamless connectivity into presence platforms like Microsoft OCS, Messaging solutions such as Exchange or Notes and Call Management platforms from Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and others. 

Bio

Ian Hawkins leads the Product and Sales Support Team in TANDBERG Australia and New Zealand. With 14 years industry experience in the video conference Industry

with a special focus in customer support and service deliver, he has designed and managed support processes as well video helpdesks in a variety of organisations.

 

Ian has been involved in technical product support as well solution architecture to deliver effective video communications on a range of enterprise environments.

 

Holding technical qualifications in both network management and server based technologies, Ian has expert skills to understand a diverse deployment of

both modern and legacy infrastructure on both IP and ISDN platforms.