Services - Managed Video Conferencing

High quality business video is within easy reach with Visionnet – a dedicated IP-based network designed and built for real-time, live video conferencing.

There's no reason to accept inferior quality video or to battle with complexity when you can access Visionnet. Visionnet provides you with a simple to use, high quality video conferencing solution.

Technically speaking, Visionnet offers you a complete IP based video conferencing network solution including multipoint bridging and gateway services to both ISDN and IP sites.

It provides the reliability and quality of service (QoS) required for mission critical video conferencing with the added advantage of being a cost effective alternative to ISDN for video conferencing.

Visionnet's exclusive video features extend the video communications experience to new levels of simplicity and effectiveness

These advanced, easy to use, features make video conferencing as simple and spontaneous as using a telephone but with the added power of face-to-face communications.

Direct Dial Video
Each Telstra iVision Visionnet site has its own regular phone number. There are no more special codes, IP addresses or other confusing dialling plans. The direct dial video number enables anyone to call the site quickly and easily from any video system.

You can put the direct dial video number on business cards or other collateral as a standard phone number that instantly connects to that Visionnet site. This means you can receive video calls from another video system or everyday audio calls from standard telephones and mobile phones. With no need to highlight the telephone number as a video line, you remove any potential confusion for callers.

Call Redirection
This allows you to dynamically program your video conferencing system to forward all incoming calls to another system on the Visionnet network, for example to a standard telephone number or to an IDSN video number to ensure that an important call is never missed.

Conditional call forward/busy no answer enables calls to be forwarded to another location if an incoming call receives a busy signal or the call is not picked up. The conditional call forward/busy no answer option must be manually provisioned by Telstra iVision.

Cisco TelePresence© provides high definition, life-size and immersive virtual meetings that are easy to initiate and use, even for intercompany meetings.

Telstra iVision provides end-to-end management for its TelePresence service with solutions that are robust, secure and can be offered as a flexible, cost-efficient,pay by the month plans and no upfront costs.

Integrated, life-like experience
TelePresence brings you life-size images and remarkable clarity with rich, CD-quality audio. The system integrates cameras, a lighting array, microphones and speakers to create a life-like experience.

Multiple features

• Small room and or personal meeting experience: the Cisco TelePresence© 500 allows a single person at home, remote site or the office to communicate with others in up to 48 locations.
• Medium-size meeting experience: the Cisco TelePresence© 1100 and 1300 offers one ultra high-definition 165cm plasma display for people to have one-to-one meetings with others in up to 48 locations.
• Large, immersive meeting room experience : the Cisco TelePresence© 3010 and 3210 offers life-size, ultra high-definition video (1080p) on three 165cm plasma screens. From six to eighteen participants can sit on one side of a ‘virtual table' and be joined ‘virtually’ per room for a round-table meeting with multiple parties at other locations.
• Telstra iVision Telepresence B2B Connect: B2B Connect enables different organisations* to connect in a way that is easier, more convenient and highly secure. This enables fully immersive intercompany meetings nationally with customers, suppliers and partners. Features include optional meeting support and scheduling from Telstra via the Hosted Multipoint Service, a managed service at both the network and application layers, and a choice of flexible Bandwidth plans to suit your budget.

*Telstra’s Telepresence B2B Connect service currently only supports conferences between Telstra Telepresence customers in Australia. We are working to enhance the service to support conferences involving customers around the globe via an inter-provider service.

The Polycom RealPresence Experience is a range of purpose-built video conferencing environments that present an immersive visual experience in a comfortable, inviting environment. The range consists of a set of modules with a variety of floorplans varying in size from 4 seats (and 2 screens) to 26 seats (and 4 screens).

Multiple Features

• The solution arrives complete with virtually everything required for a dramatic RealPresence Experience with no additive equipment or room treatments needed. The walls, tables, carpeting, lighting, A/V components, touch panel control screen, and content displays are all included in a single package. Optional leather chairs are also available.
• The all inclusive environment includes: a ceiling cloud of acoustic baffling, studio quality lighting, sound-panelled back wall, full-screen video on the front wall and calculated table-height that matches the far endpoint.
• A large format, seamless video wall provides an uninterrupted view of the other room. This provides a cinematic View of up to 16 feet of video with no bezels offers extraordinarily clear view.
• With the compact high definition cameras hidden behind the video displays, the microphones suspended from the ceiling cloud, the sound system out of view and no remote controls on the table, the technology is hidden and the meeting participants can focus on the business at hand
• With the 24:9 aspect ratio for the RPX 200 Series or 48:9 aspect ratio of the RPX 400 Series, the user has great visibility into the other room. As users enter the suite, everyone can be seen in full view, just as if they are walking into the room. Even as users walk to second or third seating tiers, they are seen in full height.
• High definition video captured through fixed cameras and large format rear projection (with resolution and frame rate options of 1080p, 720p 60fps or 720p 30fps) creates true-to-life physical dimension for participants in an immersive meeting room. The StereoSurround Audio in 22 kHz has a natural, open quality, and is accurately synchronized with the picture to give spatial reference to voices across the suite. Both features enhance the feeling of being in the same room.
• The Polycom RPX HD Solutions are interoperable with all standards-based video conferencing products, ensuring that the end user can maximize their capital investment and continue to use legacy video solutions.
• The RPX HD Solution is multi-purpose even when not being used for video communications. Off video, participants can be seated all around the oval shaped conference table, view content on the Personal Content Displays, and be dialled into an audio bridge through the touch-screen control panel. Suitable applications may include using the room as a training room, traditional conference room or executive board room.
• Direct VGA connection allows users to present content by simply plugging a VGA cable into a laptop. Share content of any type from the laptop including PowerPoint slides, Word documents, web pages, advertising campaigns or engineering drawings. Users can connect many types of media display devices such as DVD players and document cameras.
• This room-within-a-room design is constructed to facilitate an organization’s move to a new facility or re-allocation of space in the existing facility. The suite can be disassembled in its entirety and moved to a new location.

Telstra iVision’s cloud-based content management solution enables you to create passive and interactive applications(apps) for informative and entertaining digital signage.

It allows you to manage all your digital media applications and content on a robust online platform with access to features and functions that empower flexibility and creativity.

Empower your creativity

• Create - create engaging apps for passive and interactive digital signs, kiosks, mobile devices, video walls and more. The application visual editor tool lets you create apps from professionally designed templates or from a blank canvas.
• Manage - organize and manage your content using our online content library. Images, videos, audio, data sources and much more are supported with meta tagging options that even be customized for specific playback rules. 
• Publish - decide when the latest application changes should be published for the world to see. Updates can be published manually after a review session or automatically as new changes are applied.

Manage with ease

• Multi-tenancy - operate multiple client organizations and accounts under a single instance. 
• Workflow - extensive workflow management features enable administrators to provision user accounts and groups with multiple levels of access and visibility, as well as approvals.
• Schedule - scheduling lets you control the date and time your content or layout will play. 
• Reports - view reports to see how people engage with your on-screen content.
• Alerts - monitor all of your player devices through a central online dashboard with live alerts and email notifications. 

Cisco Show and Share is a network-based offering ideal for private and highly secure video sharing within an organization.

Efficient and effective for large-scale deployments, Show and Share provides:

• Flexible authoring, publishing, and review workflows
• Support for uploading a wide variety of file types and recording from USB cameras
• Collaboration tools such as commenting, rating, and word tagging
• Advanced user and group management and viewing rights
• Advanced content storage, archiving, and distribution management

The application supports both managed and unmanaged live webcasting with additional options including slide synchronization, viewer Q&A, and polling.

In addition, Show and Share includes an extensive set of APIs that facilitate integration with a variety of other Cisco video and collaboration applications and other application systems.

In partnership with Polycom©, Telstra 1 Touch Video™ offers you complete, managed conferencing packages that are easy to deploy and use, scalable and affordable.

Scalable and affordable, Telstra 1 Touch provides high-definition Polycom® video conferencing hardware and a dedicated carrier-grade network for a simple monthly fee. A single point of contact offers comprehensive support including training.

Seven packages
Telstra 1 Touch Video leverages our partnership with Polycom® to offer seven packages to suit your business needs.

Multiple features and benefits

• Bring a new dimension to your meeting experience with high-definition Polycom © video conferencing hardware brings a new dimension to the meeting experience
• Leverage your existing hardware investment
• Access a dedicated carrier-grade network with Quality of Service that is highly secure and available (there are no network integration, upgrades or impact on your LAN)
• Use without worry – there are no usage limits with online scheduling plus multi-site IP conferencing
• Utilise a single point of contact for support and maintenance
• Be reassured by defined response times and replacement service
• Enjoy a simple payment model, with a flat rate over 36 months.

A World Class converged media network is within easy reach with Visionnet V2 – a dedicated next generation network designed and built for real time applications.

There’s no reason to accept inferior quality video or to battle with complexity when you can access Visionnet V2. Visionnet V2 provides you with a simple to use, high quality video conferencing solution all wrapped up under our video centric service level agreements.

Purpose-built
Visionnet V2 is designed to provide real-time services, allowing only the traffic for the services provided, thereby increasing overall network efficiency.

Mission critical video conferencing It provides the reliability and quality of service (QoS) to run multiple different applications over the same IP network , prioritising applications that have real-time communications over those deaming not time sensitive.

Advanced features
Visionnet V2's advanced, easy to use, features make video conferencing as simple and spontaneous as using a telephone but with the added power of face-to-face communications. It provides a secure network providing high quality real-time services with the capability to integrate into a customer’s on premise infrastructure. Key features include:

• Core Redundancy - the design has implemented redundancy in core physical networking infrastructure (firewalls and routing),
• Redundant Connectivity – customers can obtain dual network communications links which can provide automatic failover in the event of a link failure,
• Improved security - security features include customer segregation using a new secure segment, firewall control in the core and optional firewall control at the client
• Enhanced Monitoring – our service desk have detailed monitoring capabilities and constantly monitor the performance of the network to proactively address any issues that may arise.
• MPLS Routing Segregation - As an optional feature, a separate secure segment can be created for you which would allow routes to be shared with an internal network, allowing integration with on premise equipment.
• Flexibility – easier to provision alternative service providers for connectivity from a client into the Visionnet V2 core.
• Additional services – such as connectivity into the Telstra B2B Video network, SIP services, hosted Movi, hosted signage and connectivity via Cisco Intercompany Media Engine.
• Other services may be provided upon request.

Global network reach As well as Australia, Visionnet2 has a presence across the United States, Europe, South America, Canada, and Asia through its partnership with GlowPoint. Visionnet V2 provides 99.98% minimum commitment for all customer traffic that is transported via the Visionnet V2 Backbone.

Using our infrastructure and customer access capabilities, our network can reach a large majority of customer video conferencing locations at reasonable, cost-saving prices. Further to this, in-country GlowPoint multipoint bridging enables you to host your conference in the most cost-effective geographical location.