Video Conference Streaming:
The Polycom
VMC1000 Video Media Center, Available From Polycom

A complete video content management solution that links the worlds of video conferencing and video streaming. Adds video recording and streaming to any H.323 video conferencing system with special features for Polycom’s end points. Video can dramatically reduce your carbon footprint and improve employee communication and customer service while cutting cost by reducing employee commuting and air travel. The VMC solution for Polycom provides conference recording plus live streaming and on-demand video. The utility of existing video conference assets are dramatically increased as one time events are converted into video assets and under used conference rooms become high quality studios for content origination.
Features
- Leverages videoconferencing endpoints (such as the Polycom HDX and Polycom VSX) to allows organizations to turn any video conference room into affordable high-quality streaming video studio
- Extends real time communications – video conferences or broadcasts – to thousands of viewers live using multicast
- Records video conferences for later search and playback – allowing for mobility and flexibility with viewers. Remove the time and distance barriers that hinder effective team collaboration.
- Allows use of the video conference room to create training sessions, product launch, sales kits and any other content
- Leverages multi-point video conferencing to allow content origination from multiple sites
- Publishing capabilities enable users to produce effective rich content
- Statistical reports highlight which video content was viewed when, by whom, for how long, and more
- Content uploaded or transferred to the VMC 1000 is secured via flexible access controls
- Integrates with existing enterprise security and authentication standards
- Enables cost-effective utilization, control, and tracking of enterprise video assets
The Benefits
- Dramatically increases the payback on existing video conferencing facilities by adding streaming capabilities (live and on-demand)
- Leverages videoconferencing endpoints (such as the Polycom HDX and Polycom VSX) to allows organizations to affordably create high-quality video content
- Captures video conferences, training sessions, lectures, product launches and more with packaged video containing documents, presentations, and other data
- Time shift video conferences for people who can’t attend due to travel or time zone issues
- Improves corporate communications and morale by letting all employees participate in important decision making processes
- Removes the need to create dedicated studios by leveraging the high quality cameras, lighting, and sound that already exist in most video conference rooms
- Integrates with existing enterprise security and authentication standards
Going Green with Video Conference Recording and Streaming
- Video Can Dramatically Reduce Your Carbon Footprint and Increase Communication, Customer Service And Revenues.Video Conference Recording and Streaming technology is allowing organizations to cut down on employee commuting and air travel — the major culprits of environmentally harmful carbon dioxide emissions.
- Live and on-demand video are a viable alternative to corporate travel.
Video provides the benefits of live interactions without the need for travel (Eliminating the distance barrier), which dramatically improves productivity and lowers costs. Video on Demand eliminates the time barrier by providing access to pre-recorded content others may have missed because of time zone problems, employee absence, too-many-commitments or even holidays.
- Leveraging digital media across an enterprise curbs the depletion of natural resources.
For more information, please visit the Polycom Experience Center.