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Launched on December 8-10, the Beijing smog red alert, the biggest impact in the two groups, students and office workers, some people benefit from instant messaging, online video, cloud services such as video meeting, implement the "closed not suspended" and telecommuting. But this is only a small percentage of the welfare of the people, hardware and software environment of most people do not have such requirement. Telecommuting, for example, soft environment refers to the enterprise to meet the demand of business, management, under the premise of accepting this form, weak environment refers to the enterprise and employees on both ends of the communication and collaboration tools. In the Internet today, email, instant messaging, online video, such as document collaboration service has been very mature, good environment of the main board in video meeting.
Was born in half a century ago, video conference, conference room system, from the initial application in the big companies to carry on the intelligent mobile terminal cloud video conference, in the process of evolution of morphology have been looking for the balance of cost and experience, but the result is not satisfactory. Between the communication efficiency, experience and cost, people are always looking for economic optimal solution. More efficient, so even if video communication of professional high-end hardware experience better, many enterprises still for cost consider to choose other way to communicate, or use experience poor low-end hardware and software system.
In the past, we see soft terminal as pioneer of video conference is blossoming. This kind of terminal is cheap, but is limited by the quality of consumer hardware, the audio experience cannot rival with professional hardware terminal. Of course, the popularity of each product have to undergo from scratch, from there to "optimum" process. With the progress of video meeting the core technology and the improvement of the network infrastructure, affordable video conference system has walked to the window of the upgrade.
In view of the development trend of the video conference, your correspondent with huawei wisdom really Wang Xiangjiong product area general manager had an in-depth exchange. Professional video, he thought, the meeting will be in the product of the audio experience and human-computer interaction experience continues to improve, costs continue to drop, at the same time, MCU deployment to the cloud.
Upgrade for affordable video meeting, Wang Xiangjiong view reveals such professional huawei hardware video conference services affordable product market oriented thinking: the terminal side, from the high-end products of "subtraction" for users and make it meet the low cost, simple and easy to use these two conditions, to improve the penetration rate of conference room in the enterprise; On the platform, the MCU "soften", shed hardware box form, comply with the corporate IT to the trend of transformation of cloud computing as a whole. , by contrast, the original cloud (software) video conference for the user there is no change of the platform side, but cloud meeting operators need in the existing system of end products to do "addition", such as professional hardware terminal to replace the soft terminal, with more professional audio collection equipment instead of PC peripherals type and intelligent device with a built-in camera, microphone, etc., to improve the quality of the terminal side of audio. Full-time just released its first hardware video conferencing products "full-time box", is a typical "additive" mode.
"The hard and soft", "three" together
Side is a professional hardware video conference service providers to affordable market expansion, one side is affordable video conference services toward the professional quality upgrading, around affordable video conference market changes can be simply summed up as: terminal from soft to hard, the platform from hard to soft.
In the open market, equipment suppliers and operators is race and dual relationship between is greater than the competition and cooperation. In the field of video conference, open hardware products in theory can be compatible with all the cloud video meeting. Therefore, if the cloud users do not have video meeting is simple and easy to use, low price of professional hardware terminal is available, so it is the hardware of the camp.
In fact, compatible with each other in traditional hardware video conference has already done well enough, only high-end quality corresponds to the high price and the product between the diffusion "compatibility" enough. According to media reports, huawei video meeting each other compatible ability for four consecutive years won the International association of Multimedia communication IMTC (the International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium), in 2014 the interoperability test, its TE30, TE40, TE Mobile terminal and MCU VP9630 with nine different manufacturers more than 40 MCU terminals, five different manufacturers to super links successfully in 12 minutes. In this context, the universalization of professional video meeting as Wang Xiangjiong puts it, is actually a product towards cost-effective transformation process.
It is reported, huawei has been clear for affordable video conference market layout, and positioning is very clear on this series of products: application for the conference room, to ensure that the professional audio rendering; Simplify deployment and interactive experience, let ordinary people can use easily; To reduce costs, let users could simply like office supplies procurement. Wang Xiangjiong said that huawei's starting point is simple, make like telephone, projector, video meeting room of the standard.
To simplify, terminal
Wang Xiangjiong pointed out that the video conference technology development is very clear, one is the video quality enhances unceasingly, from CIF, D1, 720 p, 1080 p?? Until 4 k; Second, the video coding standard grows, from h. 261, h. 263 to today's h. 264, h. 265. After 20 years of development, huawei has complete technical transformation, and h. 265 and 4 k and cutting-edge technology USES in the sixth generation of products (TX series terminal, VPC800 camera, etc.).
Product upgrading is the result of the audio experience is getting better and better, the bandwidth consumption is relatively lower. Technological progress, therefore, reduces the threshold of the user to obtain high quality video communication, is a professional video meeting the popularity of the stage.
"Transformation of professional hardware video conferencing terminals reversion" to suit the remedy to the case, huawei have profound understanding of this. Huawei internal had a phrase to describe those products for the "ivory tower" -- did very well, but the feeling is too narrow. These professional hardware system in addition to the price is not enough people, also including the system configuration is complex, the user interface is not friendly. Many times video conference are deployed as formal ICT projects, and to set up with professional and technical personnel for routine maintenance and support.
Wang Xiangjiong said the video conference is products for the end user's experience respectively, so huawei since 2007 FrogDesign to establish cooperation relationship with international design company, "changes in the Frog, huawei is enter into the field for 15 years one of the biggest video conference." In addition, huawei also invited the UCD experts jian-ming dong (worked as senior and eBay for IBM company innovation research, has a number of human-computer interaction design aspects of the American patent) user experience as chief architect. "In guarantee under the condition of professional audio experience, remove the redundancy design, as far as possible through the background intelligently deal with complicated strategy, reducing the user configuration, promote friendly interface degrees." Wang Xiangjiong said, "a popular edition of huawei terminal project was in October 2014, probably early next year. Product after globalization of research, design, simulation, trial production, testing experience?? We put great effort, strive to make international terminal."
Softening of MCU,
Huawei initially based on MCU for C&C 08 SPC exchange architecture (VP8620), and then upgrade to the full IP architecture (VP8660), IP means MCU have large-scale expansion of capacity. Across the frames then huawei ascend the box and resource management level, realize resource pooling, thus accomplished the MCU in platform side of cloud deployment. Wang Xiangjiong further stated that in the future will also to "soften" of MCU, can be based on user's existing cloud computing resources to make "soft media".
"' soft media advantage, can according to customer's business requirements in terms of resources, flexible scheduling, such as that at the meeting of resources more, not at the meeting of less resource. In addition, the big enterprise development, only need to add a few servers can expand the resources."
It's evident that the MCU "soften" also facilitate the operations for cloud video meeting. Video conference popularization is the biggest beneficiaries of the small and medium-sized enterprise, SMB market size will be greater than the existing large enterprise users. "Large customer service can match the product manager, channel manager, customer manager, but the SMB market one by one to do certainly not worthwhile, so want to uniform rules for mass market, channel shop goods, users can get started, is cloud meeting such mode in the future." Wang Xiangjiong believes that the future cloud video conference business scale will be far more than analysts forecast based on specialized hardware video conference.
The deepening of scenarios,
Video conference application scenario for the breakthrough conference rooms, gradually to online education, remote medical treatment, emergency command, etc. In one kind of deep excavation in the scene, also can find combination point between video conference universalness and experience to upgrade. Such as the meeting room "into" office, huawei high-end desktop intelligence really DP300 then follow this path.
Huawei DP300 is terminal VP9050 upgrade, the codec for video conference, video camera, microphone, speaker, can touch screen devices such as integration, and even can be built-in MCU. DP300 text cameras can transmit the desktop text image directly in the meeting, convenient for collaborative office, such as bank financing business processes need to see the customer sign, with DP300 is very convenient. In addition to the meeting, DP300 screen can also act as a PC or thin terminal display.
From a big scene system is applied to the small scene, this is another form of "subtraction". Anyhow, disruptive products will never happen, this is a process of accumulation, the sum of small innovation, product development, integration can produce amazing results.
