Could you benefit from face-to-face conversations with people in remote locations without actually going there? Would collaboration and document sharing make these conversations even more effective? If so, you need the Video Communication Solution from Toshiba!

The Strata Video Communication Solution (VCS™) provides users with point-to-point video communication and collaboration (desktop and applications sharing) capabilities. Using VCS, video and collaboration can be added to your daily telephone conversations.

Toshiba’s new Video Communication Solution (VCS) for the Strata CIX™ family of IP business communication systems makes video virtually as easy to use as a traditional telephone, and because it’s compatible with the user’s existing Strata CIX system and telephone handsets, the VCS offers a very affordable entry point into video communication and collaboration.

Video Applications Abound in Every Business
Moving video conferencing out of the conference room and onto individual workers’ desktops turns occasional benefits into practical every day solutions.

Video communications take productivity to a new level by allowing remote workers to see, hear, interact and collaborate on projects together, no matter where they are physically located. Whether it’s used for daily organizational calls or VIP communication, VCS provides the remote way to conduct virtual in-person meetings for staff education, field engineer support, sales staff support, product demos, work group discussions, and much more. The document sharing and collaboration allow all participants to view the same online data, so it’s almost like being there in person. Because it takes the place of face-to-face meetings, video communication can dramatically reduce the cost of business travel and enhance productivity and quality of work.

Product Highlights
The following are highlights of some of the features in VCS 1.0.

• Fully integrated with the Strata CIX system – VCS Server software is pre-installed on the Strata Media Application Server (MAS). VCS Windows XP client software easily extends the user’s Strata voice user’s multi-media experience
• Video – Friendly and easy to use automatic interface allows users to see, hear and interact with each other
• Collaboration – Users can share their desktop, applications or documents. Both users can edit the same materials while in session

Functionality is integrated into the telephony capabilities, with features specifically tailored to handle video telephony, including:

• Video Hold
• Video Transfer
• Video Forward
• Station Hunting
• Video Park/Pickup (local node only)
• 2-way video with 3-way voice conference
• Manually select Video Transmit speed
• Video setup value: size, transferring and encoding rate
• Video Transmission of you and other party ON or OFF
• Self Video Check

Specifications

VCS Client Console Screen

VCS Software

• VCS Server software is pre-installed on the Toshiba Strata Media Application Server (MAS). Existing Strata CIX/MAS customers can install VCS server software on their MAS free of charge for a limited time. After the free trial period expires, VCS licenses can be purchased
• VCS client software runs on each user’s Windows XP computer. One client license is required for each concurrent VCS user

Strata Media Application Server (MAS)

• Requires a memory upgrade to a minimum of 1GB of RAM
• Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
• Internet Explorer version 6.00 or later
• IIS in Microsoft Add-on Components
• Available hard disk space of 120MB

Camera

• USB Camera
• Toshiba has tested and recommends Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 or QuickCam for Notebooks Pro

Strata CIX

• Release 3.1 and later
• Strata CIX system side license (LIC-CIXR3.1-VCS, free to R3.1 and 4.0 customers) is required for pre-R4.1
  Strata CIX systems
• Multiple Strata CIX nodes are networked via Strata Net. VCS supports a maximum of nine nodes, based upon
  1GB of RAM.

Endpoint Support

• Toshiba Digital telephones
• Toshiba IP telephones
• Toshiba SoftIPT softphone on laptop PC or PDA

Client PC Requirements

• Hardware:
  • CPU: PentiumM 1.5GHz or greater
  • Memory: Minimum 512MB
  • Available Hard Disk Space: 10MB
  • Network Interface: Minimum 100 BASE-TX
• Operating System:
  • Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
  • DirectX version 9.0c or higher and compliant video graphics card

VCS Capacity

• Number of configured users is limited to available disk space
• Maximum number of activated user licenses is 512

Video Specifications

• Standards: MPEG4
• Output Format: VGA, QVGA, QCIF
• Encoding Bit rate: 128kbps to 1.5Mbps
• Video Frame Rate: Auto adjust up to 30 frames per second

Video Protocols Supported

• Signaling: Client/Server – SIP RFC 3261
• Networking: TCP/IP v4, FTP, HTTP
• Client: UPnP
• Server: CSTA

VCS Configuration Setup

• Use Web-based VCSManager for VCS server information settings, Strata CIX information settings, End user information settings, Administrator information, VCS license registration, save log files to local disk or transfer log files using FTP, backup and restore system data, display operation status (user and server status, version information, maximum of user licenses purchased, and number of active users logged on)
• VCSManger can only manage one VCS server in the initial release 1.0
• Log file size maximum is 400MB in hard disk drive

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