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Clear-Com Exhibits Concert 2.0
at InfoComm - Software-based intercom for multi-user conferencing
June 18, 2009
Source: Clear-Com
Clear-Com, a Vitec Group brand, is exhibiting
the latest version of its software-based intercom solution,
Clear-Com Concert Version 2.0, at this week’s InfoComm
show (Booth 6617).
Concert V2.0 allows Concert users and those on the traditional
Eclipse digital matrix system to communicate over a single
network via the Internet, Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide
Area Network (WAN), providing a cost-effective means of expanding
a facility’s intercom system without an additional hardware
or infrastructure investment.
Based on I.V.Core, Clear-Com’s groundbreaking IP-based
technology, Concert’s advanced audio quality delivers
crystal-clear sound communications over a standard LAN, WAN
or Internet network between local and remote users. Using
their desktop or laptop computers, production team members
working from home or a remote office location can take part
in a communication session via the Concert panel and a microphone
or headset. These conferences can be initiated within minutes
from conception to execution and are of such high clarity
that participants feel they are in the same room with one
another.
Building on Concert’s existing capabilities, Version
2.0 allows Concert panel users to connect with traditional
digital matrix users talking on wireless beltpacks and hardware
panels within a fixed facility location. This enhancement
allows conference centers, churches and educational institutions
to benefit from the type of advanced intercom capabilities
that traditionally have only been available via high-end production
systems.
“Rental and staging companies, corporate event planners
and festival organizers today face enormous pressure to produce
more highly-coordinated events in less time and with fewer
resources,” says Craig Frederickson, Product Manager,
Clear-Com Communication Systems. “These resources could
be based in remote locations or in other parts of the organization
that traditionally would not have access to hardware intercom
panels. The new Concert V2.0 can quickly and cost-effectively
connect new users with traditional users, and thereby facilitate
new workflows
and ad hoc communications that were never before possible.”
Included in Concert V2.0 is a new “soft-panel,”
a highly customizable software panel that resembles a traditional
intercom panel and offers similar benefits as well as the
look and feel of a hardware counterpart. When used as a standalone
intercom system, the new soft-panel offers standard intercom
functionalities such as push-to-talk, monitor and latch-to-talk
keys for communication with other Concert users, as well as
connection to predefined conferences.
Concert V2.0 retains the same classic functionalities of earlier
versions of Concert, including enhanced audio features for
delivering crystal-clear sound and non-blocking communications,
an intuitive interface that facilitates ad-hoc communications
and makes the user the conductor of his or her own audio conference
with easy drag-and-drop functionality and simple point-and-click
controls and the “Presence Awareness” feature, which
monitors participants’ availability, allowing users to
communicate more efficiently in highly demanding and collaborative
settings.
At the heart of Concert is Clear-Com’s revolutionary
I.V.Core technology. The most advanced Intercom over IP (IoIP)
solution on the market, I.V.Core comprises an intelligent
decision-making engine that optimizes routing over standard
networks, provides support for wideband codecs delivering
high-quality audio, and features proprietary noise reduction
and error recovery algorithms.
At InfoComm, Clear-Com is also previewing a new interfacing
capability for Concert that provides a USB four-wire interface
for linking Concert clients and servers to two-way audio sources
over IP, providing connectivity to paging systems, program
feeds, conference bridges and any equipment with an analog
audio interface.
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