INTERVU Wednesday announced the INTERVU Conference family of Internet conference
casting solutions.
The INTERVU Conference family is a set of solutions
designed for service bureaus that incorporates live audio and video streaming
services into their traditional conference call offerings in a fully
automated fashion. The new solutions will be commercially available in
January.
Part of INTERVU’s family of Web-based business communications tools, this new
set of solutions offer a highly scalable, carrier-class Internet conference
casting solution with a rich user experience at a cost significantly lower
than traditional conference calls.
The use of INTERVU Conference enables
service bureaus to leverage the power of the Internet, INTERVU’s patented
distributed network, and INTERVU’s Netpodium technology by offering a
combination of streaming media, interactive text messaging and other dynamic
functionalities. These new solutions are an enhancement to INTERVU’s existing
Internet conference casting services the company is currently providing to
companies in the online investor relations space.
“Nine percent of U.S. organizations are using streaming media on their Web sites for
varied applications and another 20% expect to do so by 2000. The integration
of streaming media into traditional conference calls is clearly a high-growth
area as businesses look to minimize expenses while expanding the reach of a
conference call,” said Sujata Ramnarayan of Dataquest/Gartner Group.
The INTERVU (ITVU) Conference family of services is based on an automated solution
that captures the signal from a telephone or videoconference call and
delivers it over INTERVU’s patented, distributed network. From the INTERVU
Network, the call is then streamed to the participants through a INTERVU
generated Web site branded in the service bureau’s name.
These solutions are
provisioned through a real-time, Web-based reservation system. Users also
have the ability to load content, set security, view reports and monitor
events from their own secure Web page in real time. In addition, customer
conferences can be automatically recorded and archived for on demand use and
rebroadcast.
