ClearOne Introduces All-In-One Video Collaboration Solution

The system, ClearOne's first to incorporate video capability, features an integrated ClearOne HDConference® audio conferencing system, a 46-inch HD LCD monitor, an HD USB video camera, and a built-in quad core PC with Windows pre-installed. Collaborate is as well available without an operating system for enterprises that have customized or bulk licensed software.

Tracy Bathurst, Chief Strategy Officer for ClearOne, said Collaborate will suit large organizations running on UC platforms as so then as small and midsize businesses using web conferencing applications like Skype. Collaborate can as well be used for applications just as Internet telephony, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) softphones, and instant messaging, he said, and it allows audio/video playback of files saved in QuickTime, RealPlayer, Windows Media and other formats. Companies whose applications run on Collaborate include Avaya, Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mirial, Siemens, Skype, and Yahoo.

The Collaborate solution includes a ClearOne Soundbar speaker, which mounts to the bottom edge of the video screen; a ClearOne microphone pod; and a wireless keyboard and mouse. Additional microphone pods can be added so that larger groups can participate in conferences.

ClearOne, a global communications and entertainment solutions company, is the world's leading supplier of professional audio conferencing systems.

"The ClearOne Collaborate is a solution that operates natively with select UC applications and web based customers, so clients can to the letter plug it in and go," said Bathurst. "It as well allows users to maintain the same, consistent interface for initiating, scheduling, joining and managing conferences. This level of integration simplifies use and minimizes the time of deployment and training. It will extend the use of video collaboration with large enterprises and enable its use in small and mid-sized businesses."

Collaborate provides full PC functionality and enables users to create split screen modes where live video can share the screen with data and content from PC or network applications. Its design allows a companion 46-inch monitor to be attached side-by-side to the first monitor, permitting full-screen data presentations to appear then and there to live, full-screen HD video images.

The underlying product concept of the ClearOne Collaborate console is to give clients an all-one-one solution that avoids the technical complexities of component solutions - installation, hook-up, integration, and training - and allows them to work with the desktop interface they already use in daily communications. Collaborate will allow an enterprise to leverage its investment in UC software to enable video collaboration nearly anywhere, and it will give companies more flexibility in how and when they use video for small group meetings.

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