Wire One Technologies makes videoconferencing over IP a reality By Paul DeVeaux Government and corporate entities have continually expressed an interest in video communications. It stands to reason that any organization with multiple locations would desire the ability to communicate visually from different geographic points without having to force its employees to travel. The quality offered by IP can t be ignored. We expect the demand for IP videoconferencing applications to increase in both the business and consumer marketplaces, says Richard Reiss, president and CEO of Wire One. The company s newest application is the Glowpoint Network, an IP subscriber service for conferencing and other video applications.
Many companies are hesitant to run video over their existing networks.
We make it easy for a customer to deploy a video enterprise. Think of us as an outsourced video solution, adds Reiss. The Glowpoint Network was developed using a backbone architecture supplied by Exodus Communications. The network uses a proprietary architecture over dedicated capacity on a high-performance, redundant backbone. Glowpoint is getting positive feedback from the analyst community.