MS Live Meeting

[youflyifix]

Hello folks
I’m an integrator/designer for ISDN and IP based VTC systems. I have a customer who uses MS Live Meeting and wants to incorporate it into an existing VTC room as another option to users. The goal is to utilize the existing camera and audio feeds and add them into a live meeting. I’m not familiar with Live Meeting other than what I have read online. Is this possible, and if so what kind of hardware (i.e. video capture card) will it take to pull it off.
Thanks.

[ashley]

Not sure about Live Meeting but we recently started using the RHUB Web Conferencing Appliance - http://www.rhubcom.com/ - and it has been brilliant so far. No downloads necessary for anyone to join in the meetings/sessions, no firewall issues, secure and best of all no monthly fees.

Hope it helps. Do keep me informed if you find a solution.

Regards

[ahung]

From what I have heard you cannot incorporate MS LiveMeeting and existing VTC (for the time being) due to LiveMeeting uses proprietary codecs. Some vendors have license those codecs from Microsoft and possibly manufacture an appliance to bridge that connectivity. You might want to check out Microsoft RoundTable, its a speaker phone and web cam that ties in to LiveMeeting 2007 and OCS. The speaker phone is very loud and clear, and the cam with mirrors provided a panoramic view of the conf room.

[JFCOMEngineer]

I believe that it uses Tandberg's Video Communication Server (VCS) appliance to act as a gateway between traditional H.323 systems and SIP based OCS. Maybe Sean has more information, or you can look here (http://www.tandberg.com/products/tandberg_vcs.jsp). In the demonstration I saw there were several MS clients, I don't recall if it was Communicator or Live.

Regards,

Wes