Video Conf

[gtmoore]

Guys,

I don't know if this is best forum to ask but since you guys know Avaya mabye someone has some recommendations.

I was just tasked to provide a video conferencing solution for 3 offices spanning overseas locations (US, Bulgaria, & India). I have a total budget of around 25k for hardware and 5k a month for bandwidth allocation/addition. Currently we have 3 meg point to point lines from the US to both sites. Also all sites have at minimum a T1 Internet line.

We are running Avaya VOIP currently to these sites so I wanted something that could integrate with Avaya VOIP for growth potential (thinking maybe execs would have cam in office). I am looking at Polycomm but if anyone else has ideas please let me know. Also if you need more details I can provide. I appreciate any help! Thanks!
Greg

 

[nohuhu]

gtmoore,

polycom is good. in fact, the thing called 'avaya video telephony solution' is polycom with communication manager acting as a gatekeeper.
as for money, i think for this budget you could easily have three vsx3000, these are suitable for executive people (small room, one person, comes with built-in 17" display) but if you need to cover larger rooms you'd better think about vsx 5000 or even vsx 7000 series units. these are cameras only, so you'll need plasma screen or large lcd tv, something like that. considering that 4-party conferencing comes as default, you should probably be okay within budget limits.
i'd recommend you to contact some reliable vendor for quotation on polycom hardware. also, if you need integration with cm, you'll need some avaya licenses for vsxes but these are not too expensive.

 

[phoneguy55]

Polycom is the leader in video conferencing. You should look at a solution that has both ISDN and IP video conferencing abablity. If you already have an IP network built. It should be as easy a assigning each unit an IP address and plugging them in. Then call the other IP address. If you network is real busy you may need to confirure QoS to give priority to video.

 

[gtmoore]

Thanks guys.. I guess Ill hit the Polycom website and check the ones you suggest. I appreciate the pointers.. We will definitely being calling via IP address and have QOS already on network. The fun will be guaranteeing enough bandwidth for video but making sure it does not affect our VOIP (we are help desk solution company).