Collaborative Computing

Videoconferencing System: Intel Business Video Conferencing With ProShare Technology

This year, H.323 standards-compliant desktop videoconferencing system rollouts have energized cost-effective network collaboration. Intel Corp. wins again this year in this category, this time for replacing its popular ProShareJ System 200 with the revamped Business Video Conferencing system, also known as BizVideo. To a user, BizVideo's Conference Manager looks the same as a legacy ProShare. But now the call types include LAN, ISDN and voice. This makes BizVideo a great tool for the SOHO (small office/home office).

Excellent software/hardware product integration is why BizVideo wins this Well-Connected Award. Everything you need--camera, headset/mike, video-capture board, ISDN modem and easy-to-install software--comes in one box.

NetMeeting's cost--it's free--isn't the only reason it garners an honorable mention. It can work with a ConnectixJ camera and SoundBlasterJ board to turn your PC into a small-picture H.323 videoconferencing system. RADVision gets an honorable mention for being the industry's leading H.323 protocol stack provider.

Intel Business Video Conferencing with ProShare Technology, $1,199,
Intel Corp.,

(800) 538-3373
www.intel.com/proshare/conferencing


Honorable Mention:
NetMeeting, free to download,
Microsoft Corp., (425) 882-8080.
www.microsoft.com/netmeeting

PictureTel LiveLAN, $1,195,
PictureTel Corp., (800) 716-6000, (978) 292-5000.
www.picturetel.com

On LAN L2W-323 Gateway, $6,000 to $10,000,
RADVision, (201) 529-4300,
www.radvision.com



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