Enabling Voice, Video and Data
communications between your
local network and the WAN

Video Networking | Secure Video | STE III Voice | ISDN Emulation

Video Networking

Global business communication needs are driving the demand for reliable and affordable videoconferencing. In many industries, aggressive time-to-market schedules require quick decision-making processes and efficient ways for geographically dispersed research and development teams to collaborate and resolve outstanding problems. Videoconferencing is the ideal way to bring geographically dispersed people together, face-to-face, to facilitate decision-making and productive collaboration.

Video Networking is the underlying network infrastructure that supports videoconferencing. It requires a broad range of wide area network (WAN) connections that can be directed to multiple locations at different bandwidths, on a call-by-call basis. Initia offers a full range of products that provide this variable bandwidth-on-demand, delivering selectable video and audio quality on a pay-as-you-go basis, and determing the least-cost-routes and carriers for network connections worldwide.

Critical Success factors

As businesses adopt WAN videoconferencing as a way to save time and money, there are a number of important factors to consider, including:

• the cost of application and WAN access equipment
• the number of videoconference stations per location
• the average number of videoconference calls (hours/day) that you will make
• the size and type of WAN connection required to handle that volume (BRI/PRI/T1/E1)
• network transport services (private versus public versus virtual connections)
• support for multiple carrier standards (regional and country-specific)
• life-cycle costs (the cumulative cost of ownership)

How Initia Video Networking Solutions save you $$

Through advanced bandwidth management capabilities, Initia AccessSwitches make it easy for you to reduce equipment and network access costs. Using Dynamic Access Switching, Initia products allow access lines to be dynamically shared by different applications at varying times, thus avaoiding the need to have separate dedicated, under-utilized access capacity for each application. Fewer, better utilized access lines result in lower network access costs.

Initia AccessSwitches can also integrate other traffic such as voice, imaging or routed data traffic over the same high-capacity access lines. This helps to lower overall communication costs and defer some of the network costs alloted to video.