An announcement from MASERGY (
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) network environment that enterprises want, to get a higher video quality video conferencing experience.
MASERGY is a privately held network service provider delivering the customer experience in the telecommunications industry and serving hundreds of customers throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. MASERGY leverages advanced transport technologies to deliver global Ethernet services across a native MPLS
network.
“Enterprises often run video conferencing equipment on closed, private networks, limiting their connectivity to others to protect their own network assets, performance and integrity”, said Scott Brothers, director, product management at MASERGY.
“With the MASERGY Video Extranet
service, these companies now can get flexible video connectivity with guaranteed QoS, reliable performance and consistent security to enterprises using high-definition, telepresence or standard video conferencing equipment,” he added.
Companies are currently looking for quality and immersive videoconferencing experiences to enable less travel as they are keen to reduce their carbon footprint. MASERGY’ claims could be targeting the companies looking for such services.
Benefits for enterprises implementing MASERGY’s Video Extranet service include seamless B2B communication among enterprises on separate private networks; high-quality video communications between corporations on different IP
carriers; interoperability of various application equipment in a secure network environment; and maximum ROI for video conferencing devices and space.
The Video Extranet handles all networks routing directly via Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) and tunneling, extending the reach of the enterprise network and lowering additional access costs.
It is anchored by the MASERGY global network. Offering the ability to connect different application equipment from multipoint control units (MCUs) and gateways to streamers and VoIP
switches within a secure network environment, the Video Extranet maximizes return on investment (ROI) on video conferencing resources and minimizes integration issues.
MASERGY also offers an add-on service with the Video Extranet called Insight, a powerful but simple-to-use monitoring and diagnostics tool that provides a ‘real-time’ view of all network components. Enterprises can see current status of any network device, system logs, SNMP info, network performance, and packet loss, Conduct diagnostic testing to determine latency and trace routes to determine problem locality.
Supporting connectivity between MASERGY customers, as well as to companies serviced by other carriers, the MASERGY Video Extranet is available worldwide for connection to any and all customer or reseller locations. MASERGY will debut the Video Extranet service at the Telepresence (
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Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
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