MCS was designed to fit into any existing LAN environment. MCS allows up to 60 users per server and is scalable. A conference can have an unlimited number of participants by simply increasing the number of servers. Sureswaran said that the product's superiority is its ability to maintain a constant bandwidth of 250kbps even when additional servers and users are added on to the conference. A third picture on the user's screen is that of the user.
Participants can take turns among themselves to be the active site during a conference.
MCS also allows video streaming of VHS movies and recorded meetings. It also supports common operating system environments such as Windows 95 and Unix. Sureswaran said the product has been progressively developed and improved since 1993 when the team was first researching the possibility of running high quality video-conferencing on a shared Ethernet bandwidth. The end result was MCS v4.0, based on an open and distributed architecture which makes it independent of proprietary hardware and is pluggable into any IP-based network.