OTTAWA, Ont., March 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Magor
Corporation (TSX Venture: MCC) today announced two key developments
to the Aerus™ Service Delivery Platform (SDP) that bring greater
reach and service options to end users:
1. Support for a desktop visual collaboration client for
Windows
2. Three new Aerus OnDemand services:
- Aerus Invite – A personalized virtual meeting room service
offering
- Aerus OnScene – A vertical solution for public safety
applications
- Aerus WebCollab – A WebRTC-based webinar-style collaboration
service offering
The software-based Aerus SDP has been designed to deliver a new
level of flexibility for enterprise-grade visual collaboration by
combining cloud computing, peer-to-peer networking and media stream
switching to enable:
- Concurrent sharing of multi-sourced collaborative media,
including desktop screens, iPad screens, static and interactive
whiteboards, wearable camera views, live and recorded video, photos
and any other content that may be useful
- Real-time adaptability of media-stream quality via scalable
video coding
- Native interoperability with SIP, H.323 and WebRTC solutions
without the need of additional gateway for media processing
- A distributed server architecture with application layer
multicasting for media streams to support for large-scale
deployments
- Support for both private and public cloud deployment
"Our ongoing strategy with Aerus is to elevate the use of video
interactions to support new collaborative teamwork that goes far
beyond the current video conferencing approach." said Ken Davison, Chief Marketing Officer for Magor.
"Today, we push further in this direction by extending our visual
collaboration experience to the desktop, delivering a new standard
for video interactions on multi-purpose PCs for Windows. In
addition, the new suite of OnDemand services offers flexibility to
end users with access to fully integrated capabilities that would
otherwise be offered as entirely separate solutions."
A key component to the end user flexibility enabled by the Aerus
SDP is the Aerus Media Engine (AME), which is built into every
Aerus client. The AME is comprised of two key innovations:
- An adaptive, scalable video-coding framework that manages the
quality of multiple video streams at once and adapts in real time
to preserve high quality.
- A robust interoperability library that contains standard
protocols and a significant number of media codecs available for
use throughout any session for seamless on-the-fly
interoperability.
"The AME enables us to take the visual collaboration experience
we've delivered in dedicated appliances for meeting rooms and now
extend it to the Windows desktop and to other operating systems and
devices in the future," said Davison.
The Aerus desktop visual collaboration client is designed to
meet the needs of knowledge workers who require access to people
and resources in real time wherever, whenever and however they can
get access to them. Current desktop clients constrain users to an
inflexible workflow model at a time when flexibility is paramount
for increasing productivity.
The Aerus SDP OnDemand service layer enables the abstraction of
value-added services from the underlying visual collaboration
clients, adding the flexibility to extend reach, choice and access
to the services end users need at the time they need them.
Magor is announcing three new additions to the OnDemand service
layer:
- Aerus Invite is a virtual meeting room (VMR) service that
changes the rules on multi-point video sessions by personalizing
the service to the user rather than designing the service around
capacity of ports. VMRs can be assigned to individual users or
public rooms for both private and public cloud deployments. VMRs
offer customers scalability and interoperability with minimal
scheduling overhead.
- Aerus OnScene is a set of services focused on public safety to
enable intelligence-led policing. For example, one such service
provides front-line officers, supervising officers and dispatchers
with street-level visibility during major events when seconds count
or to preserve valuable resources. Aerus OnScene transforms Aerus
users located in operations and crime centers into an
operations-command-management terminal by providing access to
real-time, geo-tagged video streams from IP surveillance systems,
smartphones and officer-based cameras in multiple locations.
- Aerus WebCollab is a flexible, WebRTC-based service that
enables up to 25 participants to securely attend an Aerus session
via audio and/or video with complete views of other participants
and shared information. Aerus WebCollab uses the open WebRTC
standard, which enables real-time communication for standard web
browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Aerus WebCollab
is ideal for:
- Holding training sessions for clients, partners or
customers
- Delivering lessons for distance education
- Attending lectures by professors in remote locations
- Conducting sessions that include travelling employees
- Delivering distant sales presentations
"This evolution of the Aerus SDP solves several long-standing
limitations of traditional video conferencing regarding flexibility
of deployment, media-stream quality, sharing collaborative
material, scalability to reach large numbers of users and
interoperability," said Davison. "Aerus frees customers to
collaborate on their own terms and discover innovative new ways to
improve workflow productivity by using video throughout their
organizations."
Magor will showcase the Windows Aerus Client, Aerus Invite,
Aerus OnScene, and Aerus WebCollab at the Enterprise Connect 2014
Conference & Expo March 17 – 20
in Orlando, Fla. The company
will demonstrate the new capabilities during the conference at
Booth #536.
About Magor
Magor develops and markets visual collaboration software for a
world that increasingly rewards those who can bring together the
right people and information at the right time. Magor's Aerus
service delivery platform removes the limitations of traditional
video conferencing and collaboration tools to provide entirely new
ways of interacting with video with the goal of creating new ways
to be productive.
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