Voip Review - Skype Vs ooVoo - Voip Video Conference

Skype and ooVoo are programs that can make free video calls from computer to computer via the Internet using webcam and microphone.

Operating system and language.

Skype 4.0: There are versions of Skype for Windows, Mac and Linux. Translated into Spanish

ooVoo 2.0: there are versions for Windows and Mac not Linux. Translated into Spanish.
Video call

Skype: Video only between 2 people. You can not just adjust the size of your window. Allows full screen

ooVoo: Multiple people simultaneously. Free version with banner advertising. The default size of windows is the same, but you can make something bigger window you choose. Does not allow full screen.

Chat

Skype: Chat with smilies.

ooVoo: Chat with smilies. With advertising, at least in free version.

File Transfer

Skype: No size limit (I know people who go movies by Skype). Supports simultaneous transfer.

ooVoo: 25 MB limit. Simultaneous transfer of up to 20 files.

Call Recording / Video

Skype: Through third-party software such as Pamela (fee € 15) or more. This forum thread will also add software to record Skype calls.

ooVoo: Possibly the first month free. Since then, with a maximum of 1 minute. No limit on your plan ooVoo Super ($ 10 per month).

The recording is the window with all participants and informed them that it is carrying out the recording of the call by using a small notification. It is extremely easy to record and everything is done automatically.

Multi - conference

Skype: Does not support multiple simultaneous video calls, but the audio conferences with up to 24 people, including telephone calls to fixed contacts or skype. A few years ago could be used a program called vSkype Festoon which was renamed for video conferences, but disappeared.

ooVoo: In our opinion the strength of ooVoo. Free support to multi-conference 3. You can try the first month free conference for up to 6 people.

Private rooms for video chat.

Skype: No.

ooVoo: On the Web can access a ooVoo.com section create web video chat rooms (in English, this section is not translated into Spanish), which create an inviting room for up to 6 people. You can put password or leave it open. The difference with a multi-conference is that you do not need to be present in the room, but you can create for others to access it.

Plus you can embed in your website through a script, and Java must be installed so that visitors to the web will work. Have opened up the API (library for developers) to better control the functions of these rooms, and shows some examples of use.

Videoconferencing through the web without installing.

Skype: No. You need to have installed Skype features on both sides the program Skype.

ooVoo. If you have installed ooVoo see that you have a personal web address type http://webvideocall.oovoo.com/callme/ ... If you pass this web address to others, you can do video conferencing (multiple) with them without having to install anything, just through the browser if they have Java installed. More

We tested this form of video calls and is really comfortable for that kind of friends that you too lazy to install Skype to talk. Or sometimes it is useful to do a video conference in another person's computer. It is quite easy to do.

Conclusion:

Skype is more comfortable, with better design and higher quality in the video that ooVoo offering up calls to phone numbers using SkypeOut at a low price. But the experience of making multiple calls easily with your contacts have to install anything or even being able to record that experience makes ooVoo has its niche in the VoIP world ... or at least until Skype get this functionality.

VoIP phone that combines Video Conferencing with Enterprise-Class

The bet Polycom launches new voice and video conference facility with touch-screen, which has a micro browser for obtaining content from the Web in real time and the Ethernet (PoE) which allows you to use less than half the energy similar products.

Santiago, Chile. March 18, 2009. Within five years nearly 10 million phones multimedia business will be distributed worldwide and generated more than U.S. $ 3000 million in annual revenues, predicts Keith Nissen, principal analyst with consultancy In-Stat.

Given that reality Polycom, a global leader in telepresence solutions, Video Conference and voice, introduced its first multimedia phone business. The VVX 1500 is the first device of its kind to combine a personal video conferencing system with a full-featured phone VoIP (Voice Polycom HD). Has an API (application programming open) and a micro browser for delivering personalized content on the Web in real time and integration with key business applications. All these functions are integrated seamlessly with an intuitive color touch screen to increase personal productivity, simplify the multi-media communication, improve team collaboration and reduce travel costs.

Main Features
By combining voice and video in a single device with a personal touch-screen interface intuitive, the VVX 1500 simplifies business communications by providing a true collaborative experience. With a large color LCD screen and the Polycom HD Voice technology, the collaboration allows VVX 1500 face to face in high resolution without the need to travel, offering a return on investment very beneficial to all.

Companies can reduce their carbon emissions and become more environmentally friendly solutions using visual and Polycom voice and allow their teams dispersed in different geographic areas the chance to meet virtually - anytime, wherever they are. Besides the inherently organic nature of the video conference, VVX 1500 was specifically designed to reduce energy consumption through energy over Ethernet (PoE), and requires less than half the energy of similar products from competition, as traditional video phones. The technology of intelligent motion of the device allows the screen to move to the power saving mode when no one is in the office.

Access to business information at a glance

VVX The 1500 has an open API and a micro browser that allows developers to integrate third party applications VVX 1500 with business applications such as unified communications, management, customer relationship (CRM) and management systems citations. The touch screen interface is always active VVX of 1500 includes a menu image in which developers can place icons for users to locate and start applications.

VVX The 1500 comes with several applications including the Polycom Productivity Suite, allowing users to initiate and control audio conference calls directly from the device screen and record calls locally using a flash memory device in the port USB phone. VVX The 1500 also has a free service called My Info Web Portal through which customers can choose to receive content such as reports of the state of the local weather and other personalized information on the screen when the device is not on a call voice or video.

Broad interoperability with major VoIP platforms

VVX The 1500 uses the same software SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) as incorporated in the product lines of the telephone conference and the SoundPoint IP desktop and SoundStation Polycom IP to communicate with SIP-based IP PBX and integrated call server. The product is in the process of obtaining certification of the video ecosystem by SIP Polycom Partners in over 30 call control observed in the IP and VoIP, including BroadSoft, Deltapath, NEC Sphere, Objectworld and Zultys.

Video overview of the Polycom VVX 1500
http://media.polycom.com/global/videos/polycom_business_media_phone_video.wmv

Availability and price

The Polycom VVX 1500 will be available this month through a network of Polycom channel partners to a list price of U.S. $ 1099. For more information on the Polycom VVX 1500, visit www.polycom.com/vvx1500.

What is the Video conference via the Internet?

Audioconferencing its originator, the phone is almost always limited to connections through conventional phone lines (analogue switched lines or ISDN, mobile telephony, etc.). While there and VoIP (Voice over IP) networks using private IP or the Internet to transmit voice communications.

The video, meanwhile, has also been strongly associated with communication through switched digital ISDN lines, although the development of broadband IP networks in recent years that scenario is gradually shifting towards IP environments or mixed ISDN / IP (now almost all the professional teams can work in both environments). In this gradual migration and convergence of communications on the same IP network, communication tools are all kinds of Web-based environment (integrated in the browser using plug-ins) to solve some or all of the following aspects: Instant Messaging / Chat, VoIP, videoconferencing, Dataconferencia (simultaneous presentations, electronic whiteboard, remote control application) All this applies as a one to one multipoint field.

While in some environments a solution can be described as a good solution, there will be other cases where more efficient use for conventional voice telephony, ISDN for videoconferencing or staying only with the Internet to complement dataconferencia an audio or videoconferencing in their versions of traditional Internet-based.

Services of the Voip Video/WebConferencia:

• Dataconferencia
• Instant Messaging / Chat
• Video
• VoIP

Polycom videoconference introduces high resolution

High resolution HDX-systems and new technology introduces better video conference for employees who work remotely, with export offices and engineers on site. Polycom Inc. new solutions and technologies in video links with high resolution. The new Polycom HDX 8000 series provides the highest resolution and best performance, which are available for video links in small and medium-large conference rooms.

Moreover HDX 8000 Series HDX-platform offers the recently announced HDX 4000 series with HD sistema a monitor for the work of the executive directors, managers, doctors and small groups of employees, and HDX 9000 series for large halls, classrooms and integrated specialized rooms .

The software package Polycom HDX Version 2.0 delivers Polycom Lost Packet Recovery for all HDX systems, providing excellent sound and picture of the network, even when there is loss of IP packets. Lost Packet Recovery can improve the level of technology.