Pexip infinity connect verification#

The Infinity MCU supports a distributed architecture which can minimize wide area network (WAN) bandwidth. The company's go-to-market strategy is 100% through partners, and these partners will also receive part of the recurring revenue stream. While pricing was not announced, the company said that people can think of paying for Infinity about what they would pay for just the annual maintenance on a hardware MCU. Pexip claims that the cost of Infinity will be up to 80% less than the cost of hardware MCUs. Between renewal periods, organizations can add licenses, but they cannot remove licenses. The subscriptions for both models require 12-month contracts which are renewed annually. In the user/month model, every user can have their own video meeting room on the Infinity server, much like individuals can have their own 'meet me' number on an audio conferencing bridge.

Pexip infinity connect verification#

The user/month model is more for very large deployments and resembles a software site license where you would obtain licenses for a specified number of users, with compliance and verification of adherence to the licensing terms coming at infrequent intervals. The per port model is likely more familiar to the video conferencing industry in that once the port capacity is reached, no additional endpoints can be added. Licensing for Infinity comes in two flavors: per port and per user/month. Pexip said that it is extremely easy to 'plug in' new codecs (VP8 integration took only a few days) and that transcoding performance between codecs is very good (low latency). It supports H.263, H.264, H.264 SVC and VP8 video codecs and can transcode between them thus, Infinity conferences can include endpoints from a number of different manufacturers and systems in a single conference. Infinity is interoperable with H.323- and SIP-based room and personal video endpoints as well as with Microsoft Lync 2013/2010 and with WebRTC (full integration with WebRTC will come as the standard solidifies more). Video bridging capacity can easily be increased simply by adding additional servers. Pexip's Infinity product will run on off-the-shelf servers in a VMware virtualized environment. They are joined by other former key Tandberg colleagues including 20 top video developers and four top-performing Tandberg sales leaders. Joining him is HГҐkon Dahle, CTO HГҐkon was CTO at Tandberg before transitioning to CTO of Cisco's Telepresence unit after the acquisition. Pexip was founded by the same video conferencing and telepresence experts that ran Tandberg.ДЄt the Pexip helm is Simen Teigre, CEO, who was a VP at Tandberg.

There has long been connection between Norway and video communications through Tandberg, which was one of the leading video conferencing companies until it was acquired by Cisco in 2010 for over $3 billion. Infinity is a new software-based video MCU designed specifically for scalability, high performance, and interoperability. With this backdrop, I was quite interested when a new startup out of Norway called Pexip contacted me asking for a briefing about a video product branded 'Infinity'. It is quite a page turner as it goes through the physics of string theory and discussions about quilted universes, Swiss cheese universes and even an infinity of universes. Laurent recently pointed me to a book by Brian Greene titled, 'The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos'. Because we are both technically minded, whenever Cisco's Laurent Philonenko and I meet at an industry event we discuss the latest good books we have read.