RADVISION: Sustaining Leadership in Collaboration Technologies
During 2004, RADVISION, an Internet2 Corporate Sponsor since 2000, continued to provide leadership in the development, deployment, and commercialization of next generation IP-based communications architectures used by the Internet2 community. As an active participant in the Internet2 community, RADVISION has been developing and testing new standards and technologies that promote collaboration—including Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), H.323, and H.350—with other members and Working Groups.
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The company has particularly supported the Internet2 community’s wide-ranging videoconferencing activities. As members of the Internet2 Video Middleware Working Group, RADVISION researchers played a major role in developing H.350, the International Telecommunication Union standard that makes videoconferencing scalable, easier, and more secure. Building on this experience, RADVISION became the first company to release commercial products based on the H.350 standard, playing a vital role in moving new Internet technology from university research labs into commercial use.
RADVISION continued to make important contributions to the Internet2 Commons during 2004, regularly providing the latest network technologies for use in testing and offering video services to Internet2 members. For example, the Internet2 Commons Management Team tested RADVISION's IMfirst, a tool for voice, video, and datasharing. RADVISION also contributed to the Internet2 Commons a full videoconferencing solution, including a state-of-the-art Multipoint Conferencing Unit.
Throughout the year, RADVISION provided technical support and equipment for a number of videoconferencing activities, including the Megaconference, an annual worldwide conference that uses H.323 video technologies. In addition, RADVISION engineers built and donated a customized H.350-enabled videoconferencing endpoint especially for testing by the Internet2 community.