Interoperability

Interoperability allows a Magor TeleCollaboration endpoint to communicate with another vendor’s video conferencing or telepresence solution. The Magor approach to interoperability ensures that all Magor video, audio and collaboration capabilities are preserved when interoperating with other vendors’ systems. This helps ensure productivity is not hindered by system incompatibilities and allows the enterprise to leverage its investment in existing solutions. The systems interoperate directly during a two-party session and through the other vendor’s multipoint control unit (MCU) for a multi-party session. 

Magor TeleCollaboration uses Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to communicate with other endpoints and the H.264 Advanced Video Codec (AVC) High Profile (HiP) to encode video. It also interoperates with H.323 communication protocol endpoints behind their SIP-compatible transcoding MCU. Magor’s collaboration resources are converted for collaboration interoperability (H.239). Magor TeleCollaboration endpoints also accept H.239 collaboration video streams from video conferencing and telepresence endpoints. This ensures that both video and collaboration remain an integrated part of the Magor TeleCollaboration experience.

The illustration below shows how Magor endpoints integrate and interoperate with an existing video conferencing solutions.

Point-to-point interoperability

A point-to-point call can be made between a Magor TeleCollaboration endpoint and any video conferencing or telepresence endpoint that supports SIP signaling. Standard H.264 HiP or H.263 video codecs are used for the video stream. A second video stream is used for H.239 collaboration material. To make a point-to-point connection to an H.323 endpoint, the H.323 MCU must transcode the video and collaboration streams.

Multipoint interoperability

A multipoint call can be made between Magor TeleCollaboration endpoints and another vendor’s MCU. Each Magor TeleCollaboration endpoint retains its peer-to-peer connections while communicating with legacy endpoints through the MCU. Magor’s advanced collaboration capabilities are retained in a multi-party conference while H.239 video streams are used for collaboration interoperability.

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