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November 14/2007
TMCNet.com (by Richard Grigonis)
TELIRIS VIRTUALIVE: IN THE WORLD OF TELEPRESENCE, IT'S A WOWSER
It's always a treat when Yours Truly finds himself encountering a product or service in the telecom world that really does live up to the normally far-fetched hyperbole habitually generated by public relations and advertising folk. In a recent visit to Lexington Avenue on the fabled island of Manhattan, I had the great pleasure of experiencing in action a genuine fourth-generation telepresence system and managed end-to-end service from Teliris (News - Alert) (http://teliris.com). Called VirtuaLive, it's an amazingly modular (and therefore, amazingly scalable), amazingly reliable (Teliris guarantees 99+% reliability), and amazingly lifelike system. Did I say this thing was amazing?
Your truly was sitting at a conference table, looking across at a line of people on the other side of the table – except that the "other side of the table" was in London, and I was in New York City. The ingenious technological methods to make this illusion work involve Teliris' own large, non-glare screens using "Hyperion" technology that minimizes the gap between screens to the smallest in the industry, and matching up the "eye lines" of parties in both rooms involved in the conversation, so that you find yourself in a realistic, perfectly natural meeting experience. Teliris goes so far as to analyze and configure your organization's conference room for optimal performance, even calculating distances and delays using the speeds of light and sound so that both the video and audio will be perfectly synced (no more silent moving lips).
Marc Trachtenberg, CEO, CTO and co-founder of Teliris, says, "We're selling a great meeting experience, not technology."
Teliris systems are quite modular and scalable. You can have a huge multiscreen system (each module uses about 6.5 Mbps), or place a single-screen executive model on your desk. There's even newly-announced WebConnect technology that allows for remote participants to engage in a virtual meeting through any broadband Internet-connected web-based device. Users can view, hear and interact in a full telepresence meeting, and can review presentation materials or any other content displayed in the meeting room.
Teliris has also announced the release of a gateway that boosts their systems interoperability, allowing Teliris customers to connect to competing standard telepresence systems as well as legacy videoconferencing, audio and desktop conferencing systems and web-enabled devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
All of these are reasons contributing the fact that Teliris is the leader in the Telepresence (News - Alert) industry, holding 44 percent of the market share and deployed in 19 countries. They're the most widely-deployed solution in the pharmaceutical, banking/financial and media sectors. The company received the 2007 Global Award for Market Leadership from Frost & Sullivan.
Teliris systems and service immediately became popular with C-level executives, but are now making their way down the corporate chain as more people discover what a comfortable, even "fun" experience it is. (Come to think of it, Hyperion screens would look great in my office…)
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