TANDBERG D13898.04 manual Features at a Glance

Introduction

Features at a Glance

The TANDBERG Content Server provides users with a quick and easy way to record video meetings and view them live or on demand from their computers.

Flexible Content Creation

•Customizable Personal and System Recording Aliases automatically apply recording and streaming settings, conference permissions and metadata

•Support for dialling in and dialling out from the Content Server

•TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS) integration:

•Support for scheduled calls through integration with TMS 11.6

•Ability to configure Transcoding and Archiving Aliases for use by TMS.

Recording

•Large scale content creation from multiple concurrent video conferences

•Powerful predefined system templates (see Recording Templates at a Glance for a full list of system templates and their recording and streaming outputs)

•Dual Stream support for transcoding and archiving Windows Media calls and transcoding Real Media and QuickTime calls.

Streaming

•Live streaming of video meetings in multiple formats and data rates

•Multicast and unicast streaming

•In-built Windows Media™ streaming server

•Integration with external streaming servers for publishing Windows Media™, RealNetworks® Real Media (RealAudio® and RealVideo®) and QuickTime® content.

Authentication

•Support for local, LDAP and domain authentication

•Support for guest (unauthenticated access) with PIN- protection for conferences.

Permissions

•Access-list based model for viewing live and recorded conferences and editing recorded content.

Content Library

•Searchable content library for viewing live, scheduled and recorded content

•Ability to assign customized Categories to conferences and sort conferences by Category.

Content Viewing Experience

•Indexing content for quick retrieval by using General Index and Personal Bookmarks

•Picture in Picture and Picture out of Picture layouts available

•Ability to switch the display of the main and extended (Dual Video) streams in the Picture out of Picture layout.

Content Editing

•Ability to manage markers, slides and index points in the Content Editor

•Ability to set the start and end points for conference playback and create a playlist for playback of up to 5 conferences.

Administration

•User-friendly web-based interface for administrative system configuration

•Access to administrative logs and Windows Server from the Content Server web interface.

Gatekeeper Settings

•Ability to register the Content Server with the gatekeeper as a Terminal or a Gateway

•Native support for Expressway.

Scalability

•Support for media storage in an external storage location, such as Network Attached Storage (tested with IBM X-series)

•Support for scaling out on the recording and streaming functions by creating a cluster of up to 5 Content Servers,

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with a single interface to access functionality and media in the cluster.

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