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2003 Product of the Year Awards
RADVISION support of Microsoft
Windows Messenger
RADVISION
www.radvision.com
With the Microsoft Office Live
Communications Server 2003 and Windows Messenger 5.0, every Windows
XP desktop now has built in voice and videoconferencing tightly
integrated with Instant Messaging. And RADVISION’s new IMfirst
solution brings multi-party and multi-device functionality to this
architecture -- further expanding Windows Messenger to make it the
ideal tool for enterprise multimedia communications.
The Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 is
currently designed to support multimedia only on a point-to-point
basis. No multiparty functionality for multimedia and data
conferencing is supported via the Microsoft Live Communications
Server, nor inter-working with other videoconferencing networks such
as H.323 and H.320. The RADVISION viaIP multimedia communications
platform with IMfirst enables users of Microsoft Windows Messenger
(WM) and the Live Communications Server 2003 to hold multipoint
audio/video conferences and data collaboration sessions between
three or more WM users. Additionally, because the RADVISION solution
includes multi-protocol and multi-device functionality, end points
are not exclusively limited to Windows XP desktops. The gateway functionality of
the product enables the signal translation between SIP, H.323 (VoIP),
H.320 (ISDN) and H.324M-3G (Cellular), meaning anyone using a SIP,
IP ISDN or 3G product (e.g., SIP phone, meeting room
videoconferencing endpoint, NTT Docomo’s FOMA phone’s etc.) can
participate in a multi-party voice or video call with WM endpoints.
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