Virtual Conferencing Plus
In today’s connected business environment, face to face interaction is important. You have to be there when opportunities arise, act when your decision is needed and
speak when you insights are called for. But with your busy schedule and the escalating cost of business travel, face to face meeting often becomes impossible.
Unified Communications (UC) shatters physical and knowledge divide, allowing you to meet the most pressing demands of your business, empowering you and your team to act quickly,
to think on your feet and collectively design innovative processes and winning solutions, faster and more efficiently.
There are different paths to migrating your current communications infrastructure and applications to Unified Communications, providing you a whole new options to help
you cost effectively streamline the integration of data flows and build an efficient and productive collaborative environment.
Pacnet has drawn on its expertise in telecommunications and IP convergence to create an effective communications medium that can help you meet your internal and external collaboration
requirement. Virtual Conferencing Plus (VC Plus) offers you the advantages of video conferencing and a whole lot more.
What is VC Plus
VC Plus is a multipoint high quality audio, video conferencing and presentation tool that uses standard PCs and widely available PC video peripherals. The first
High Definition video conferencing solution to run on the Public Internet, VC Plus allows you to use virtually any popular webcam or PC video peripherals.
To maximize your video conferencing experience right from your own desktop/laptop, VC Plus continuously optimizes your PC processing power, bandwidth and its state-of-the-art
server cloud. No more expensive hardware, network re-engineering and months-long implementations. Our solution gives you the flexibility to mix and match different
cameras all in the same online meeting or even change your camera setting anytime.
VC Plus is seamless and an easy to use solution that you can avail of almost immediately!
Four distinct advantages
- Simplicity Plus
VC Plus features innovative point-to-call capability. Simply click into your conference room to select meeting participants and start a video call
immediately using a familiar and intuitive interface. Setting-up video conference meetings and sharing materials/applications online have never been that
easy! Since your communication and application sharing transpire over a secure network, you can rest assure that your business critical information and
proprietary materials are safe and easily accessible should you opt to have them recorded.
- Productivity Plus
With VC Plus you can share business documents and proposals, sign, review and edit them in real time though an online platform.
You can now easily share applications, your web browser or even your desktop. Sharing PowerPoint presentation has never been easier as VC Plus
allows you to do it without having to convert your files. The PowerPoint transitions will be seamless, with rich graphics and text.
Hosted in our state-of-the-art data centers, VC Plus delivers an optimum audio and video conferencing experience with file and application
sharing capabilities, so that you can meet and collaborate using real business tools anywhere around the world.
- Variety Plus
VC plus offers you a slew of layouts for online meeting styles or rooms. Do you want a straightforward tiled layout or a classroom style
layout complete with whiteboarding for optimum presentation and file/application sharing? VC Plus automatically adjusts the video quality
based on bandwidth and CPU availability. It integrates with common video peripherals that you can switch or change anytime, giving you greater
flexibility and more cost savings.
- Ubiquity Plus
With VC Plus you can easily reach out to your colleagues and partners across the world at anytime. From your PC, you can share and
articulate your ideas using multimedia visual aids making meetings more engaged as if the participants are right in front of you. Because
VC Plus supports High Definition video conferencing, you benefit from enhanced user experience previously only available through
high-end telepresence and High Definition video conferencing products. Imagine all the savings your can realize by not having to fly to a meeting or
conference venue yet still manage to do what needs to get done right here, right now.
VC Plus Packages
VC Plus Client (Standard or HD Options) Up to 16 Concurrent Users¹
Communication is a challenge when your teammates or business partners are geographically dispersed. But with VC Plus, you can have a face-to-face
meeting with them right in the comfort of your office using high quality desktop video conferencing service that supports near real time communications.
These packages offer secure Point-to-Point and Multipoint Communication.
The Closed User Group (CUG) management, which caters for small online meetings, allows secure and easy user access management. Using proprietary
video compression technology that requires 4 times lesser bandwidth than MPEG 4 and 2 times lesser than H.264, Pacnet VC Plus offers a choice of video output
options, which depends on the available bandwidth:
- QCIF (80 kbps per video stream)
- CIF (150 kbps per video stream)
- VGA (300kbps per video stream)
- HD (1Mbps per video stream)
These basic packages allow audio/video recording and playback of conferencing from any VC Plus client. With customizable client interface, this
application includes rich tools such as built-in Instant Messaging, file transfer, interactive
Regardless which firewall you are using, 'VC Plus’ intuitive firewall traversal allows you to use the service immediately. An external proxy option is also
available for clients that fail to bypass Network Address Translation (NAT). Features such as Forward Error Correction (FEC), Packet Loss Concealment
(PLC) and Echo and noise cancellation are all embedded in the client to enhance the audio and video experience.
Virtual Room Type A and B
Suitable for 8 or 16 users, these virtual conference rooms come equipped with tools that allow you to conduct presentations and trainings virtually,
significantly cutting your need to fly to the actual training venue. Various conference interface layout templates can be chosen and activated by the
meeting chairman who can also control the audio, video and role play of all participants.
Equipped with an intelligent whiteboard, this service enables you to share PowerPoint slides or capture notes. Using high quality video, you can
guarantee that information is shared vividly and accurately.
Virtual meeting rooms can be easily set-up and meeting invites can be sent from the desktop client almost immediately. Integrated with Microsoft
Outlook Calendar, you will never miss another meeting! To guarantee security of your communications, these virtual rooms can be
password protected to ensure that only the authorized persons are allowed to sit on the meeting.
Delivering a comprehensive collaboration tool, this package employs rich-media communication tools like Instant Messaging, whiteboard, application/file
sharing and presentation. With a click of a button, participants can also record the multipoint virtual meeting in their local machine and review it when
necessary.
System Requirements
- Operating System
- Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7
- Hardware
- Processor
- For CIF Quality – Intel® Pentium IV 2.0 GHz or above
- For VGA Quality – Pentium Core 2 or above
- For HD Quality – Pentium Core 2 Duo or above
- Ram: 1GB and above
- Hard Disk: 20GB and above (excludes recording storage)
- Bandwidth Requirement per user²
- QCIF Video: 80kbps
- CIF Video: 150kbps
- VGA Video: 300kbps
- HD: 1mbps
¹Applicable when Virtual Room is used
²May vary slightly depending on web camera used.
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