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Video Readiness Assessment Carousel Industries Quick Check

Preparing your enterprise for the productivity of video conferencing and telepresence solutions. As scrutiny over capital spending increases and travel budgets shrink, enterprises around the globe are embracing high definition video teleconferencing as the business standard for efficient and productive multisite meetings. Carousel Industries’ Video Readiness Quick Check offers a comprehensive analysis of your company’s teleconferencing options and a practical roadmap for a cost effective video implementation.

Teleconferencing and Video Network Assessments With recent advances in high definition (HD) video conferencing, your organization can cut travel expenses, reduce product time to market and increase meeting productivity - all while increasing employee morale by reducing days spent on the road. A robust visual communications program can: ›› Reduce or eliminate travel expenses by enabling real time HD telepresence ›› Accelerate time to market by eliminating costly distant meetings ›› Ensure that teleconferencing investments are intelligently made for long term productivity ›› Speed hiring processes, facilitate off-site training and enable distance learning ›› Establish a firm foundation for a Unified Communications (UC) platform

Is your enterprise data network prepared to meet the high bandwidth demands of a video teleconferencing platform? This comprehensive Video Readiness Quick Check will help you find out.

Network Readiness Testing and Analysis An effective and productive video teleconferencing solution requires the support of a stable, reliable networking and IT infrastructure. By analyzing your network in detail, Carousel Industries will determine your current capacity for utilizing video services and provide a comprehensive report of remedies for weaknesses in your network. In this Quick Check, Carousel Industries video specialists will perform the following: ›› Complete bandwidth analysis. Standard to HD definition codecs (H.323 or SIP) typically require reliable 1-2Mbps network availability, while

full high definition video transmission (H.264) can demand as much as 6Mbps per codec. This comprehensive bandwidth stress test will evaluate your network under both typical and peak loads to determine its fitness to accept or support a video teleconferencing system. ›› Packet loss simulations. Video conferencing dramatically increases the conspicuousness of data packet loss, particularly in high definition. With the latest HD video codecs, a packet loss rate of only .001 can still be noticeable and even disruptive. These network tests will use precision tools to simulate packet loss over your enterprise network in various point-to-point scenarios, providing you with an analysis detailing the packet loss “break point” as it exists on your current infrastructure. ›› Latency and jitter analysis. Delays in the communication response time of your data network - transmission latency - can introduce poor video quality, jitter, usability issues and other quality loss problems to your video teleconferencing network. Two-way IP-based interaction via H.323 or SIP protocols demand a LAN network latency as low as 10ms, while latency higher than just 50ms on a WAN environment is often enough to impact video performance. In this stress test, Carousel Industries engineers will comprehensively analyze latency and packet loss on your LAN and WAN infrastructures, and provide recommendations for upgrading them to be video-friendly. Carousel Industries is an accredited CAVSP Diamond Certified solutions provider, a distinction recognizing that 75% of our regional office’s sales, customer service and technical staff have achieved and maintained individual InfoComm Certification. All video readiness analysis reports are developed according to industry best practices. With Carousel’s Video Readiness Quick Check, the path to effective teleconferencing has never been more crisp and clear.

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Carousel Industries: Your Partner in Teleconferencing Readiness. Rapid and powerful advances in video communications technologies are sparking a revolution in how the modern enterprise does business. Uniquely positioned as the industry leader in enterprise-class video teleconferencing integrations in UC (Unified Communications) platforms, Carousel Industries can provide more than simply a video solution - we can show you how, by selecting the right solution and integrating it into our business on a holistic basis, it can become the foundation of powerful new productivity gains. As today’s premier converged communications solutions provider, Carousel Industries offers a full range of technology services, ranging from IP telephony and data center infrastructure design to the most advanced data security options available today. With our single source approach and extensive base of telecommunications expertise, Carousel Industries engineers can help your organization develop and implement the video teleconferencing solution that your growing business needs. For more information on how Carousel Industries can help make your enterprise more flexible, productive and secure, call us today at 800.401.0760 or visit us on the Web at www.carouselindustries.com.

Did you know? .. over 50% of organizations surveyed use desktop video conferencing today? [1] .. in every business quarter, over 50,000 new video conferencing units are deployed in the enterprise? [2] .. that 36% of companies surveyed in 2010 rated cutting travel spending as a major fiscal priority? [3] .. that 23% of those surveyed reported increased meeting effectiveness as their top benefit from embracing video conferencing? [4] [1] “Video Conferencing: ROI, TCO and QOS”, SearchUnifiedCommunications.com/CDW Report, September 2 2009 [2] “Bringing Unified Communications to Life”, Wainhouse Research/Avaya Networking, September 2010 [3] “The State of Travel and Entertainment Expense Management”, Aberdeen Group, February 2010 [4] “Worldwide Enterprise Videoconferencing and Telepresence 2010-2014 Forecast”, IDC, April 2010



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