Scopia, within the

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and

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fields, is a series of

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products that provide meet-me,

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and online collaboration. The Scopia products include the ''Scopia XT Telepresence'', ''Scopia XT7100 Room System'' (supporting also the H.265 standard), ''Scopia XT5000 Room System'', ''Scopia XT4300 Room System'', ''Scopia XT Meeting Center Room System'', ''Scopia Firewall Traversal'', '' Multipoint control units'', ''Gateways'', ''Scopia Control'', ''Scopia Desktop Video Conferencing'', and ''Scopia Mobile HD Video Conferencing''. The Scopia products are developed and sold by

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and their Business Partner network.

History

On 30 April 2012 shareholders approved the acquisition of

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for about $230 million. Plans were announced in June to integrate Radvision products with the Avaya Aura Unified Communication systems.

XT5000 room systems

The Scopia XT5000 is a unified communication video conferencing system with many video conferencing endpoint options. The system is capable of dual

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/60fps live video content, HD Audio,

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(SVC), along with

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multi-touch control. The XT5000 system also automatically scales bandwidth in unpredictable network environments during the video conferencing.Radvision, an Avaya Company, Earns Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award for Video Conferencing & Telepresence Endpoints
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(ATCA) carrier grade systems (5230 and 5215 systems), and the XT5100 systems (5120, 5115, 5110, and 5105).

Awards

*''Editor’s Choice Award for achievement in 2009'' from industry analyst Telepresence and Videoconferencing Insight Newsletter * ''2012 Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award'' * ''JITC Certified''

XT4200 room system

High Definition video communications. The features include

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/60fps live video and content, HD audio,

High Profile and Scalable Video Coding, dual display support and a wide angle Pan–tilt–zoom (PTZ) camera.

Desktop and mobile

The desktop software is compatible with both

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and Mac systems, and works with the web browsers:

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, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. The system uses H.323 and SIP standards to inter-operate with other video conferencing systems. Scalable Video Coding insures performance over congested networks without affecting other users. The Scopia Content Slider feature allows users of Scopia Desktop and Scopia Mobile clients to individually review already presented content (slides, annotated whiteboards etc.) during a presentation. Scopia Mobile allows HD video conferencing from mobile devices such as the

, iPhone

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and Android Wireless connection speeds over cell systems varies greatly and ''NetSense'' optimizes the conference session as it monitors the connection quality, dynamically changing from HD video to whatever the connection can support as needed. No client is known to work under other operating systems (

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, for example). A cross-platform

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endpoint is available only on select Scopia server units.

Gateways

* ISDN gateway * TIP Gateway * Microsoft Gateway

References

External links

Radvision Scopia Desktop and Mobile Applications

Radvision Scopia Video Conferencing Infrastructure

Radvision Scopia® XT Video Conferencing
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