Reviews of Conference bridges that work well over multiple varied speeds
Little bit off topic so Beer However we have been asked to deliver a Video Teleconference Bridge in our system for customers whose speeds and connectivity vary (ADSL1, ADSL2, VDSL, Radio, Fibre, UFB) and so I am looking for anyones experiences with conference bridge hardware that can take connections from customers who may be using any of these connections into our network and that is smart enough to remux the video / audio streams out to cater to the connection speeds available. If anyone has any history with such a device I would love to hear about it off list. Preferring devices that will have a master bridge inside our core with good monitoring and management and easy to use remote units that are also reliable (remote customers make for hard trips to work on) however any relevant information would be appreciated. (I am arguing for on topic ish due to the handling of different grade customer connections across the network) Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited alexander(a)neilson.net.nz 021 329 681 022 456 2326
Alexander, http://bigbluebutton.org/ Have you looked at BigBlueButton? INZ used it for a meeting a while back and my view was that it's just sensational. Key advantage was that the client only needs a web browser. They don't need to down load a client application to make it work. D On 10/02/2014 9:40 a.m., Alexander Neilson wrote:
Little bit off topic so Beer
However we have been asked to deliver a Video Teleconference Bridge in our system for customers whose speeds and connectivity vary (ADSL1, ADSL2, VDSL, Radio, Fibre, UFB) and so I am looking for anyones experiences with conference bridge hardware that can take connections from customers who may be using any of these connections into our network and that is smart enough to remux the video / audio streams out to cater to the connection speeds available.
If anyone has any history with such a device I would love to hear about it off list.
Preferring devices that will have a master bridge inside our core with good monitoring and management and easy to use remote units that are also reliable (remote customers make for hard trips to work on) however any relevant information would be appreciated.
(I am arguing for on topic ish due to the handling of different grade customer connections across the network)
Regards Alexander
Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited
alexander(a)neilson.net.nz 021 329 681 022 456 2326
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On 2014-02-09, at 15:40, Alexander Neilson
Little bit off topic so Beer
However we have been asked to deliver a Video Teleconference Bridge in our system for customers whose speeds and connectivity vary (ADSL1, ADSL2, VDSL, Radio, Fibre, UFB) and so I am looking for anyones experiences with conference bridge hardware that can take connections from customers who may be using any of these connections into our network and that is smart enough to remux the video / audio streams out to cater to the connection speeds available.
I'm not answering your question since I don't know anything about hardware solutions, but in my experience (a) modern laptop microphones are better than modern speakerphone microphones; (b) VSee (http://www.vsee.com/) is better than Adobe Connect, Google Hangouts, Skype and Facetime (on a Mac) at tolerating variable performance in the network path, and yet still managing to provide a consistent user experience. I've participated in 5-person group video chats using VSee with people where people variously had ~10% packet loss, were at the wrong end of a 3G/bluetooth tether, or were on the other side of the planet, and the meeting still worked nicely. People have told me that VSee does participant-endpoint encryption, affording some sense of privacy regardless of whether media gateways are at play. I have no knowledge whether that is true (or how private the privacy is, if it is), but it might be something worth considering as you try things out. Joe
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