Alcatel-Lucent has released a suite of visual collaboration offerings that the company says bring high-quality, cost-effective video to users across the enterprise.
The new suite employs an open solution approach that extends enterprise video to any endpoint and location, including desktop PCs, smart phones, laptops, tablets, interactive whiteboards and display screens across offices, meeting rooms and boardrooms.
Employees can now leverage presence, easy to use interfaces and "drag-and-drop" capabilities of the new suite to contact each other via any device and establish a video link for a real-time "face-to-face" conversation with content and collaboration, or share content via web portals.
The visual collaboration suite includes the new Alcatel-Lucent Interactive Whiteboard Solution, which integrates content sharing using the Alcatel-Lucent My Teamwork application with employee workgroup collaboration enabled by the SMART Board 685ix interactive whiteboard system.
Participants across conference rooms and remote locations will now be able to write and collaborate in real time with all videoconference participants seeing what is being written and reviewed, the company said.
The Visual Collaboration suite also includes Web-based video conferencing clients for employee desktops, and a range of offerings that feature infrastructure and dedicated end points from RADVISION and Lifesize for small, medium and large conference rooms, and boardrooms.
Alcatel-Lucent president of Enterprise & Strategic Industries Tom Burns said their strategy is designed to give their enterprise customers choice with a wide range of cost-effective options for video, from working with our valued solution partners to offer joint solutions to delivering embedded video capabilities with our new OpenTouch communications platforms.
