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BURLINGTON, MASS. - Ezenia, Inc., formerly VideoServer, is looking to make it easier for users to run and manage videoconferences via a Web browser with its new Encounter 3000 family.
The Encounter family, introduced last week, includes beefed-up multipoint control units (MCU), gateways and tools for managing bandwidth usage when using IP-based video endpoints. MCUs connect multiple videoconferencing endpoints into a single conference.
Ezenia's Encounter eCMS is software that lets users schedule calls via a standard Web browser, while network professionals can control users and groups of users through a similar interface. Without eCMS, users have to go through the individual endpoint's sometimes clunky interface to connecting to users.
"We really want to drive the complexity out of setting up a conference," says Arthur Souza, vice...