25th January 2011: The 16 Best HD Videoconferencing Solutions launched in 2010 (Editor's Choice) - 9. The HP Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop features an HP TouchSmart 600 Quad with touch screen

24 January 2011. The HP Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop is an HP TouchSmart 600 Quad with touch screen loaded with HP Visual Collaboration software. This one-touch, High-Definition video conferencing system turns your office into a personal video conference room.

Using the innovative HP TouchSmart platform, with integrated HD camera, microphone and speakers, and preloaded with HP visual collaboration software, getting started is quick and easy.

The HP Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop requires the back-end Visual Collaboration Portal to managethe endpoint, the Visual Collaboration Router for multi-point, and the Visual Collaboration Gateway for interoperability with H.323 & SIP end-points.

The intuitive interface lets you join a conference with the touch of a finger. You can initiate a face-to-face meeting at moment's notice – no pre-scheduling necessary. You can connect participants from multiple locations at the same time, regardless of whether they are gathered in video-enabled conference rooms or sitting in front of desktops of their own.

Features like application sharing and personalized video layout mean you will experience the best of all phone and web conferencing capabilities with the benefits of in-person interaction.

HP Visual Collaboration products provide reliable, HD-quality video while reducing network requirements and bandwidth needs over enterprise or best effort networks. This is enabled by HP’s agreement, announced in June 2010, to use software-based scalable video coding technology based on H.264 SVC from Vidyo Inc.

The HP scalable video coding technology adapts to the network you're using to ensure the highest quality video available. And that means the kind of personal connection you need to make is always right at hand. It's the convenience and value of a face-to-face meeting without ever leaving your desk.

HP Visual Collaboration infrastructure is at the heart of HP Visual Collaboration products. By employing an innovative video infrastructure – software running on HP servers – Visual Collaboration solutions are cost-effective, scalable and easily manageable, resulting in a dramatically lower total cost of ownership.

The HP Visual Collaboration Portal serves as the hub of your visual collaboration network, enabling remote configuration and authentication, directory services, reporting and central management of endpoints. The HP Visual Collaboration Router is required for multi-point video calls.

It was on 17 November 2011 that HP announced new desktop and conference room HD videoconferencing solutions They include these three solutions that we have included in “The Best High Definition Videoconferencing Solutions of 2010.”

- The HP Visual Collaboration Room 100 and Room 220
- The HP Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop; and
- The HP Visual Collaboration Desktop software client

The HP Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop offers the versatility of expanded multipoint capabilities along with low total cost of ownership. To own one is surely one Executive decision that is easy to make.

The HP Visual Collaboration Executive Desktop is an affordable, quality HD videoconferencing solutions for the Desktop. It is certainly one of “The Best High Definition Videoconferencing Solutions of 2010.”

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