EMC has made available its affordable, new, high quality HD Connect On Demand satellite technology, which offers significant breakthroughs for the telepresence, videoconferencing and visual collaboration industry. The first HD videoconferencing over satellite service available in an affordable, on demand, ‘pay as you go’ manner, HD Connect is available now for deployment to Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia – and soon to China, as well as Central and South America. HD Connect allows governments, multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in hard to reach areas of the world to use HD videoconferencing, telepresence and visual collaboration anywhere, anytime (on land, sea or in the air), at a fraction of the price of a typical dedicated satellite data circuit. HD Connect also delivers unprecedented quality, with low jitter, low packet loss and predictable and steady latency for excellent, unparalleled videoconferencing experiences.
Driving HD Connect is the industry’s first single carrier per channel (SCPC) – a non-shared, on/off model specifically designed for videoconferencing. With several patents pending around the methodology and the technology, EMC is the only company offering the service today. HD Connect, which works with any videoconferencing system, uses EMC’s high quality MPLS satellite network, which has been providing data services to governments and NGOs in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for over eight years. EMC’s new HD Connect service offers:
- Secure, mission-critical, end-to-end high quality video communications deployable anywhere on the planet
- Affordability: A revolutionary ‘pay as you go’ service where users only pay for the bandwidth that is used, packaged with bundled hours of monthly usage (like a pre-paid cell phone)
- High quality: Low jitter, low packet loss with predictable and steady latency for excellent videoconferencing experiences
- Ease of use: Delivered via a browser in bandwidth multiples of 1mb & 5mb, the user simply goes to a portal, turns on the system and operates the videoconferencing system of his choice for as long as he likes Speed of service: Circuit turn-on takes less than 30 seconds
- A single vendor: Providing customers the ability to interact with just one vendor to reach over 140 countries eliminates the need to depend on the local infrastructure for power and communications outside the region. Since EMC owns the entire network, EMC is a single solution provider for all satellite-served areas
