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LifeSize Launches Videoconferencing Solutions that bring Telepresence to the Mainstream

October 19, 2009 By admin

New LifeSize 220 Series Delivers Industry First 1080p Videoconferencing for Under £5,100 and LifeSize Passport, Available for Under £2,000 Delivers Telepresence in the Palm of Your Hand.

Manchester, UK 20 October 2009 – Altrincham based videoconferencing specialist Videonations Ltd is pleased to support its partner’s announcement of a series of industry firsts with the new LifeSize® 220 series and LifeSize® Passport™.

The LifeSize Room 220, available for under £13,000, offers full high definition, standards based 1080p30 for the highest resolution on the market and 720p60 for the best motion handling with lower latency. Equally impressive is its embedded 8-way voice-activated multipoint bridge showing 4 visible sites at any one time. The LifeSize Team 220 not only offers full HD video quality, it also delivers an integrated full HD multipoint control unit (MCU) that supports up to 4 sites for under £10,000. The LifeSize Express 220 offers the same video quality and is the first full HD videoconferencing system available for under £5,100. With the 220 series, telepresence has never been more accessible to any enterprise environment. As well as supporting the highest video resolution, the 220 series includes dual display support, integrated content sharing and LifeSize Adaptive Motion Control as standard enabling distributed teams to collaborate in real time as effectively as if they are physically in the same room.

 

Priced for broad deployment and uniquely flexible, the LifeSize 220 systems deliver HD videoconferencing at just 768kbps, extending the reach of telepresence communications to any organisation. Utilising the proven LifeSize architecture, LifeSize systems uniquely adapt to any network environment, including the internet, and seamlessly integrate into the enterprise IT framework.
LifeSize Passport is a ground-breaking HD videoconferencing system that provides the telepresence experience to anyone, anywhere. One-third the size, one-third the weight and one-third the price of any other system in its class, Passport delivers Telepresence in the palm of your hand. LifeSize Passport is also the world’s first HD video communications system to enable Skype audio calls to the more than 480 million registered Skype users.
No longer is HD videoconferencing bound by conference room and board room systems at the high end, or web cam quality at the low end. With LifeSize Passport, users can communicate in telepresence-quality at a price that enables SMEs to take advantage of videoconferencing and enterprises to cost effectively implement video throughout their organisation.

Ian Carter, Managing Director of Videonations was presented with an award for Best Telepresence Integrator, EMEA at the 2009 LifeSize Partner Conference in recognition of Videopresence – an integrated telepresence solution created by Videonations. Ian Carter says of the new LifeSize solutions, “This new platform of HD videoconferencing systems has further enhanced my belief that we can deliver a natural meeting experience without the need to travel”.

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