Multimedia information transfer through WAN

Multimedia information transfer

Voice transfer through the global network

To many business people voice communication is the most convenient and habitual means of communication. Up-to-date data transfer technologies allow transfer voice and video information through the data transfer network. It gives a possibility to reduce telephone communication costs keeping the same level of the functional capabilities. Integration of the services of telephony, video telephony, videoconferencing, streaming video in the data transfer network allows avoid a necessity to deploy separate cable networks that reduces expenses to structured cabling system. In addition some new services appear as voice mail, voice menu, and contact center, thus satisfying enterprise needs concerning unified communications.

Unified communications realizations:

Unified communications is the complex of hardware and software solutions for voice and video information transfer through the data transfer network. IP telephony, videoconferencing, voice mail, voice menu, contact centers, streaming audio and video are considered to be unified communications.

Until recently there were three separate networks: data transfer network, cable television network, telephone network. They worked independently from each other and were deployed to carry out its own task.  Unified communications unify these networks into one on the basis of the one structured cabling system with the help of specialized hardware solutions.

The main capabilities and advantages:

• Significant expenses reducing concerning telephony services
• Simplicity and effectiveness of implementation and exploitation of the system.
• Possibility to employ already existing communication infrastructure in full effect
• Implementation of the voice mail, voice menu, contact center, video telephony
• Integration with the e-mail system
• Reducing of the expenses for structured cabling system
• The cost of the IP telephony call is lower than of the traditional phone connection as there is no long-distance or international operator
• Voice stream and facsimile transfer in the digital form that allows use standard coding protocols to provide confidentiality

Practical application:

• Voice, video and facsimile transfer within the offices of the company and their connection with the world network and phone network of common use.
• Arrangement of the audio and videoconferencing, videoconferencing with simultaneous presentation
• Cell phone calls through the IP network (with the help of Wi-Fi terminal and PC software)
• Contact centers arrangement

Videoconferencing system

Videoconferencing is an advanced computer technology that gives people possibility to work together even long distances away from one another. High sound and full screen video quality, quick information interchange possibilities make videoconferencing a strong tool with the wide field of practical application. Big foreign companies use videoconferencing for quite a long period.

Business and management, long distance teaching, medicine and security are those fields of human activities where the advantages of videoconferencing are obvious. The foreign scientists’ researches show that during the telephone conversation the recipient gets only 10% of the whole information.

ULYS Systems Company offers videoconference solutions on the basis of such world known brand as Cisco Systems Company and also of other vendors.

Creation of convenient and efficient videoconferencing system takes two stages:

1. Network design consisting of high speed digital channels that provides system functioning even with a great number of video viewers connected.
2. Equipment installation: video terminals that represent special device that combines in it resource of video signal  and image screening device