High Fuel Prices No Problem for Collaboration Tools Web Conferencing and Social Media

Posted at June 22, 2008

With the high price of fuel going up and up and budgets being constrained more and more business people are turning to web conferencing and collaboration tools. Here is a recent video from the BBC talking about how Gensys Conferencing is addressing the issue. While audio conferencing is highly popular there are communication limitations. "They" say over 50% of communication is "non-verbal." So if you have the ability to share audio, video and desktop as the same time in real time it can be almost as good as beiong there.

One company that has caught my eye is Bradon Technologies who has developed a product called SAViiDesk which is the closest thing I have seen to being there in Web collaboration and Web conferencing tools. They can accomodoate 1,000+ users, they synch in real time, voice, video and desktop, and oh by the way they also archive the entire session…..and they have a total of a 400K download…..350K is the logo. The other really interesting benefit from this online conferencing tool is their price…..low…..and one more they also deliver video conferencing on Web enabled wireless devices. This type of web conferencing is the next generation of social media.

David Coleman of Collaborate.com recently posted a review on SAViiDesk.

SAViiDesk Technical Overview

Bradon Technologies Ltd has designed and implemented a new concept in VoIP. This proprietary technology demonstrates significant improvement in voice transmissions over unstable, high latency networks such as the Internet. It provides real-time connection for any type of voice conversation over the Internet including multi-user conference calls. Bradon’s technology makes voice synchronization with other concurrent content such as video a reality, combined with excellent voice quality and extremely low bandwidth. This powerful combination is the result of Bradon’s voice compression technology, “BTAC” (Bradon Technology Audio Complex).

BTAC – the voice engine

BTAC is based on a collection of proprietary components, including; Bradon Technologies Audio Codec, Acoustic Echo Canceller, Automatic Gain Control, Voice Activity Detector and Comfort Noise Generation. BTAC is a narrowed down frame-independent codec which means that each frame is encoded and decoded independently of past frames. Every packet that arrives can be perfectly reconstructed immediately. The codec utilizes 4 kHz frequency band range, delivers excellent voice quality with 4 bit rates (2.4/4.8/9.6/19.2 Kbps) and a sampling rate of 8 kHz. BTAC is available in two versions; "integer" and "floating point". Switching between bit rates and versions can be performed “on-the-fly” without transcoding.

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