Considering the omnipresence of Skype users, the SkyStone Video enables Skype users to reach and leverage your high-end video conferencing equipment that your organization invested in. The product gives you the ability to add "video call me" button to your website, which is nice value-add. What's cool is that you can set your IP phone extension to do call forwarding, say to x8000 which is mapped to a Skype username and then receive that call (including video) via Skype when on the road, telecommuting, etc. Each channel (audio+video) uses 128kbps to 384kbps, with automatic bandwidth adjustment provided by Skype. If more than 4 channels are needed, you can add another server with additional 1, 2 or 4 channels. SkyStone Video is available in 1, 2 and 4 channels versions, representing the number of available concurrent calls from-to Skype users. The key here is that it leverages Skype's ability to do packet loss concealment for superb audio quality. Additionally, it supports G.711, G.729, H.263, and H.264 for audio and video codecs. It can use both H.323 and SIP protocols to communicate with various video endpoints. SkyStone Video can be configured to connect to multiple video endpoints, MCUs, gatekeepers, and video-enabled PBXs. The communication with the video conferencing endpoint on your private network and with the Skype users is encrypted over the Internet for secure video conversations. SkyStone Video runs on a dedicated server on your company network and leverages the Skype protocol to enable you to videocall with external Skype users, without messing with the firewall or network configuration. the advantages of Skype being able to call any video endpoint and SkyStone certainly can be advantageous to a business organization. Although it is only CIF resolution, when you weigh that fact vs. Lip sync was spot on, so no complaints there. Perhaps that explains why the lower resolution. He said that's their secret sauce and they use tricks to get the video stream. I asked Christian how he is able to decrypt Skype's video stream since Skype doesn't offer a video API yet. The video quality was decent considering it was Transatlantic, but it was not HD video. When I clicked it, Skype was launched and I was connected to Christian Bongiovanni on his Polycom VSX endpoint located in a conference room in Italy. If you hover your mouse over the button above you'll see it's a Skype link. To do the demo I simply went to their website and clicked this button ( Note: you can do this too): Guess this means the VoIP Videphone War is over! Using SkyStone Video you can call any video endpoint using Skype, including Cisco/Tandberg, Lifesize, Polycom, Radvision, Sony, and others, enabling you to call video phones, video conferencing systems, and telepresence solutions. Christian Bongiovanni, co-CEO and CTO for Imagicle gave me a demo of SkyStone Video, which enables video conferencing everywhere to any video endpoint.
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