Case Western Builds Visual Network with RADVISION

Case Western Reserve University is building a campus-wide group and desktop videoconferencing service that rides over its Gigabit Ethernet fiber network. During the fall semester, Case expects that 200 classrooms, meeting rooms, and student end points will be online and communicating in a live video network. By mid-2005, when the service is fully deployed, Case plans to support thousands of devices. Case also plans to offer video services to the city of Cleveland through the nationally acclaimed OneCleveland initiative.



RADVISION components chosen by Case in the deployment include its MCU v3.2 with H.264 support, its MVP (multimedia video processing) for advanced transcoding and layouts, ECS gatekeeper for easy dialing plans and management of all end points, the RADVISION viaIP IP/ISDN gateway, its DCS (Data Collaboration Server) for T.120-based real-time application and document sharing, and RADVISION's VCS for end user scheduling of calls. While the initial implementation is H.323 based, Case plans to introduce SIP in 2005http://www.radvision.comhttp://www.case.edu