The following LifeSize video conferencing systems are recommended:

  1. for point-to-point video conferencing:
    • LifeSize Express 220 full HD point to point system.

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    LifeSize Express 220

  2. for multipoint video conferencing:
    • LifeSize Team 220 full HD video conferencing system with built-in 4-party MCU.
    • LifeSize Room 220 full HD video conferencing system with built-in 8-party MCU.
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    LifeSize Team 220
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    LifeSize Room 220

The LifeSize video conferencing systems can be used with any full HD LED TVs, LCD TVs or LCD projectors. For best video quality results, 1080p30 full HD LED TVs, LCD TVs and LCD projectors are recommended. The LCD projectors shall have brightness of 3000 ANSI lumens and above. Either 1 or 2 displays can be used. When connected, users will see the far end video and local video on the displays. If 1 display is used, the far end video and local video will be displayed as either side-by-side videos or picture-in-picture videos. If 2 displays are used, the far end video and local video will be shown on the separate displays. As LifeSize is a full HD video conferencing system, videos displayed are in 16:9 aspect ratio.

In addition to the real time video conferencing session, users are able to connect their PC to the LifeSize video conferencing system to start a presentation.

When the presentation starts, the LifeSize video conference systems will use the H.239 dual video sending and receiving feature to allow local and far end users to view both video and presentation slides simultaneously. The PC presentation will be in 1080p30 full HD resolution as well.

If 1 display is used, the following display options are possible:

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If 2 displays are used, the video and PC presentation will be displayed separately on the 2 displays.

Good audio pickup coverage is usually a primary concern of a video conferencing system. For a meeting room of more than 10 people, the meeting table could be long rectangular or U-shape. It is not sufficient to use the default microphones of the video conferencing system. 3rd party microphone systems with echo cancellation are required to be integrated with the video conferencing system.

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The microphone systems recommended are:

  1. ClearOne InterACT AT

    2. It has 3 InterACT microphone pods (each with 3 microphone elements, 9 microphones in total).

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  2. ClearOne InterACT Pro

    3. It can support up to 16 desktop boundary microphones and these microphones can be placed any where on the table. This arrangement is particularly good for U-shape meeting table.

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  3. ClearOne SR1212 with desktop boundary microphones.

    4. It can support as many desktop boundary microphones as possible and these microphone can be placed any where on the table. Particularly good for a very long rectangular or a very large U-shape meeting table. Up to 100 desktop boundary microphones can be supported.

By default, all LifeSize video conferencing systems run well on any TCP-IP network (leased line or broadband internet access) using H.323 or SIP protocol.

For connection using H.320 protocol or ISDN network, the optional LifeSize Networker can be used. It supports up to 4 ISDN BRI lines or 1 ISDN PRI line.

The LifeSize video conferencing systems are fully ITU-T H.323, SIP and H.320 compliance and compatible with any systems from other manufacturers.

With the optional LifeSize Video Center, the entire video conference meetings can be streamed live and/or recorded just by pressing a button on the handheld remote control unit. The recorded videos can be playback using a PC, Mac computers and iPhone/iPad/iPod whenever required.