With the emergence of new collaborative technologies, most major technology solutions providers are now planning to make video part of their suite of collaboration tools. But the video most of them deliver today does not meet the necessary requirements to make it a true business solution.

To become a true business collaboration tool that professionals will use because it makes them more productive and successful, video must meet several prerequisites: high reliability and quality at scale, ease of use, low total cost of ownership, and presence, all combined with an integrated suite of video applications that brings real value to business interactions and a system architecture that can be seamlessly deployed in a wide-variety of network topologies.

• Reliability - Reliability, which has long been a problem with video, must be essentially constant. Every time users want to connect, they should be able to, just like using the phones on their desks. Connect II Meet video calls on systems deployed at scale are now over 99% reliable — far better than the 65%-80% reliability offered by traditional video conferencing solutions. 
• Quality at Scale - Video quality is of paramount importance when used for business communications.  The human brain reacts negatively to asynchrony between audio and video and to low frame rates (below 24 fps for movies and 30 fps for TV). Additionally, latency, the lag time between one person speaking and the other end hearing, can inhibit natural conversation if it is more than 250 milliseconds roundtrip. Furthermore, this quality must be delivered at scale, for all forms of video including live interactions, broadcast and published video.  Busy professionals will use video only if they can reach the people they are accustomed to interacting with in their day-to-day activities. Connect II Meet’s video systems deliver TV-quality video scalable to thou-sands of desktops within and across enterprises, on a variety of network topologies.  
• Dropping Cost of Ownership  - A desktop video solution has to be cost-effective today with the promise of steady declines in the future, making it cost-effective as the number of users grows in an organization. Innovations in support, network, and resource management as well as bandwidth availability, product cost reduction, and flexible network compatibility have contributed to a dramatic drop in cost of ownership for Connect II Meet’s solutions. Future Connect II Meet releases will continue to deliver lower TCO, enabling enterprises to cost-effectively implement, utilize, manage, and scale their video environments. 

• Self-Service - Self-service is essential. Video must fit seamlessly into a busy workday, up and running and self-service wherever you work — on the desktop, in a nearby shared workspace or in a meeting room.  Connect II Meet’s presence capability and intuitive, click-to-connect user interface makes our video systems easy to use.

• Application Range - Video applications must mirror the complex collaboration patterns of day-to-day work to deliver business utility. Connect II Meet’s real-time and non real-time video applications such as one-to-one or multi-party calling, interactive broadcasting, recording for later playback, and publishing to web sites and email fit seamlessly into the existing workflow and power new opportunities for media rich intra and inter enterprise communications.  Our Connect II Meet software makes these applications standard independent and thus is the ideal platform for partnering.
• Community - Instant messaging is being considered and adopted as a productivity tool by enterprises because of its presence capability and immediacy. Connect II Meet has integrated instant messaging with video. We enabled the first inter-enterprise video community by providing real-time, presence-based video connectivity. Connect II Meet’s presence-based calling feature and call directories enable users to easily locate and quickly connect to participants. Aided by a presence-based view of all community members, Connect II Meet’s users immediately know if their contacts are logged in and available and can make one-click video connections.