Video Conferencing
Avaya Scopia® Desktop
Whether you’re meeting with co-workers in a remote office, partners across the country, or customers around the world, Avaya Scopia® Desktop brings the experience of a face-to-face meeting direct to your PC or Mac. Join a virtual meeting room and look your colleagues in the eye while you share and annotate documents, spreadsheets or other online content.
Fully interoperable, Scopia Desktop easily extends room system video conferencing to desktop users for voice, video and data collaboration. Scopia Desktop is a simple web browser plug-in that is centrally managed, distributed and deployed without complex licensing fees or installation issues. Automatic firewall traversal helps users participate more securely regardless of where they are, while being intuitive and convenient. All you need is an Internet connection and a PC or a Mac.
Scopia Desktop delivers HD 1080p quality with the latest video technology including H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) for error resiliency along with H.264 High Profile for bandwidth efficiency and reduced network costs.
HD Video Conferencing
Bring your room system experience with you to whatever PC or Mac you use. Participate in standards-based video conferences and see up to 28 participants simultaneously. Through SCOPIA video infrastructure, SCOPIA Desktop can connect to telepresence systems, standards-based HD video conferencing systems and unified communications applications for unmatched interoperability.
Smart Data Collaboration
Share your screen or individual applications for security and privacy. Highlight elements of presentations, spreadsheets, documents and images using full annotation tools. Standards-based, content sharing helps ensure collaboration interoperability with any desktop, video room system, or mobile device. Review previously shared materials instantly without disrupting the meeting flow or record everything for a permanent record. Simultaneous HD video and content helps ensure users are fully engaged.
Control, Moderate and Administer Meetings
Start or stop recording or streaming, lock a conference or end the meeting. View the participants list and mute noisy users, stop cameras or simply disconnect unwanted participants. Change video layouts including rearranging participants through the simple interface. View statistics such as codecs in use, resolution, network speed and loss for troubleshooting.
Embedded Firewall and NAT Traversal
Enjoy connectivity through enterprise boundaries while maintaining corporate security measures with automatic, embedded firewall and NAT traversal.
No Complicated Licensing
Simply click on a link, install the browser plug-in and connect - all without complex licensing fees or installation issues. The concurrent licensing model makes deployment easy for employees, partners, suppliers, customers and even casual users.
Communications
H.323 & SIP interoperability via SCOPIA MCU
High Definition Experience
HD video using H.264 up to 720p
Built-in enhanced CPU and network awareness
Extreme network tolerance using H.264 SVC
HD presentation using H.264 up to 720p
Meeting Types
Un-moderated meetings – anyone can control the meeting
Moderated meetings – with moderator PIN for control
Personal virtual rooms
Data Collaboration
H.239 based data collaboration with annotation
Room system-compatible data collaboration (H.263+, H.264 HD)
Individually review previous data without interrupting presentation flow
Text chat with emoticons for desktop users
Layout Selection
Choose personal layout (with SCOPIA Elite)
Drag & Drop (with SCOPIA Elite)
Video or data focused, or both side-by-side
Full screen video or data
Automatic based on meeting context
User Controls
Mute/un-mute
Start/stop video
Turn on/off self-view
Callback my voice or video number
View consolidated participants list (desktops and rooms)
DTMF keypad
Moderator Controls
Acquire moderation rights (may require moderator PIN)
Lock meeting
Terminate meeting
Invite a phone (without having to know the dial plan)
Start/stop streaming
Mute, un-mute and disconnect any participant
Lecture mode (with SCOPIA Elite)
Request to speak/raise hand
Built-In NAT and Firewall Traversal
Automatic embedded firewall traversal at no extra cost
Automatically handles local and remote NAT private networks
Automatic detection of optimal media path: UDP or TCP
Security
SRTP encryption
Pre-defined virtual rooms – mode where only pre-defined virtual rooms can be used
Waiting room capability – meeting will not start until moderator joins
Random security PIN for virtual room access
User authentication
Management
Bandwidth management of calls
Centralized monitoring
Scheduling and Reservation
Outlook® and Notes® plug-in for easy meeting scheduling
Web-based meeting scheduling from any browser
Ports can be reserved assuring availability for critical meetings
Streaming (SCOPIA Content Center)
Streaming supports ‘view only’ participants
Simultaneous streaming of audio, video and data
Multicast or Unicast connection modes
Recording and Playback (SCOPIA Content Center - Optional)
Records audio, video, data and annotations
Automatically posted for easy web access
PIN protected or private for access security
Administrator can permit anyone to record or restrict users
Save recordings for later offline viewing
Client Computer Requirements
Operating System: Windows® XP, Windows Vista®, Windows 7, Mac® OS X®
Browsers: Internet Explorer®, Firefox®, Safari®, Google Chrome™
Avaya Scopia Desktop
How to Manage Scopia Virtual Room Settings through the Scopia Desktop Web Portal
This video demonstrates how to access and manage your Scopia Desktop Virtual Room settings via the Scopia Desktop Web Portal.