This Unique Feature Allows Live Streaming of a Point-to-Point or Multi-Point Conference, Making Conferencing Easier Than Ever

Emblaze Ltd announces that its Group company, Emblaze-VCON, a leading provider of video communications technologies and conferencing solutions for operators and enterprise markets over IP networks, today announces the release of VCB V.5, Emblaze-VCON's new network appliance for multipoint videoconferencing (MCU) with embedded streaming server and scheduling.

The VCB V.5 provides all the major high-quality standards for video, audio and data, and allows participants to conference at the data rate of their choice. Both scheduled and ad-hoc conferences are supported.

"Emblaze-VCON's VCB V.5 MCU is powerful, easy to install and operate. It provides excellent price performance ratio," said Naji Sourani, vice president, R&D. "We're confident that Emblaze-VCON's partners and end users will embrace the VCB V.5 as a premier video MCU and streaming server."

The VCB V.5 includes all the rich features found in high-end multi-conferencing units, intelligent conference layouts selection with up to 16 Continuous Presence in 4CIF video and wide-band AAC-LD audio modes.

The VCB V.5 adds advanced capabilities such as audio transcoding, speed matching, and bandwidth management. It also supports all the latest audio, video, and data protocols, ensuring flawless conferencing for H.323 and SIP endpoints.

The VCB V.5 has a flexible architecture, with configurations scalable from 12 to 48 ports. Additional ports could be added by cascading units.

The VCB V.5 is a complete, affordable solution that makes multi-point conferencing possible for all size and type of organizations and will easily fit into customer's network both in centralized and distributed architecture.

Emblaze-VCON's VCB V.5 will be shipped in Q3 2006. Lead time - 4 weeks