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Fulfilling the Promise of Interactive IP Video Communication
The Video Conferencing Industry
HOT but still, the Slowest Emerging Market!
Why? - User Experience
It needs to look real to feel real
…That means HIGH QUALITY and very low delay
It needs to be affordable
…That means PENNIES/minute
It needs “universal connectivity”
…That means calling from anywhere to anywhere
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Layered Media Value Proposition
Dramatically Lower Cost with Software based H.264 SVC (G) solution
10X price/performance improvement
Resilience and performance
Extensive intellectual property
Significant Quality Improvement (HD/Telepresence)
Resilience
Delay
Scalable Service provider deployment possible including Multipoint
Unified communication: from Tele-presence to Mobile device in one
conference
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Video Conferencing Market Revolution
Resolution
High
Definition
Cisco, HP, Polycom
Tandberg, LifeSize
Standard
Definition
Quality
Interactivity
$10K-$300K
Endpoint
Existing Technology
All Vendors
Price-Performances
-Interactivity
Cisco, Microsoft,
Nortel, Avaya,
Skype, Yahoo, AOL,
Adobe
Low
Definition
10
1000
10,000
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1,000,000
Number of
End Points
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Conventional vs. Scalable Coding
Conventional Coding
Significant Impact
Scalable Coding
Minor or No Impact
Low Reliability Channel
High Reliability Channel
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Compare H.264 SVC with conventional H.26X
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Native Rate Matching
High Resolution
High Frame Rate
SVCS
1.5Mbps
LMI
Server
SDK
High Resolution
High Frame Rate
Medium Resolution
High Frame Rate
512Kbps
Medium Resolution
Medium Frame Rate
256Kbps
Low Resolution
Low Frame Rate
128Kbps
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Traditional
Software Video
Router Solution
replacing MCUs
Delivers Real Time Interactive Video Even With Packet Loss
Eliminates MCU hardware cost and transmission delay
End-User 1
MCU
ENCODE
SVC
DECODE
End-User 2
DECODE
ENCODE
SVC
COMPOSE
ROUTE
LMI SVC Server
ENCODE
Packet Loss
Sensitivity
Requires Dedicated
Network
DECODE
End-User 3
X
SVC
High Cost
High Delay
Requires Dedicated
Hardware
Costly Solution. User Experience Can Be Frustrating.
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LMI vs. Traditional Technology
Traditional
Layered Media
Packet loss usability
threshold
<3%
>50%
Conferencing delay:
End-to-end delay:
Result:
>200ms
>400ms
Non Interactive
=20ms
<150-200ms
Interactive
MCU Cost
$3,000-$8,000/port
$300-$800/port
HDTV Endpoint
$8,000K-$300,000
Specific HW
PC + HD camera
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Affordable, High Quality IP Video…At Last!
Layered Media HD quality, transmitted over 1.1Mbps, using a lap-top computer
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Business & interactive Video…the Postcard
Fixed - Mobile networks are converging
Data, voice and Video applications are converging to deliver Unified
Communications
Web 2.0 and Business Applications are converging to create more
interaction and real time communication
H.264 (AVC) is emerging as a video standard
Video is HOT
Great!! Soon interactive video is available everywhere and will be
part of the day to day communication
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Business and Interactive video… the Reality
Customer expectations in terms of quality and ubiquity are jumping :
SD is the minimum,
HD is the wish
Everywhere is the rule
An H.264 AVC infrastructure is not scalable or flexible enough to
deliver HD or even SD over shared fixed and mobile networks, how
to connect Telepresence with CIF Mobile?
There is a disconnection between what the industry is pitching and
what it can deliver using existing standard
Pressure is big enough for a new standard to emerge: H.264 SVC
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Consumer market is facing the same challenge
Broadband internet is available on PCs and Mobiles
TV and internet are merging, raising the bar in terms of Real Time
Video Quality expectations
Web 2.0 social interaction model is the rule
Web 2.0 + TV over the internet makes Real Time, High Quality Video
interaction from any device the KILLER APPLICATION
This means Interactive HD or SD video must be made widely
available ASAP
H.264 AVC can’t do it
Pressure and timing is right for H.264 SVC to emerge
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H.264 (G) The Unified Video Communication Standard
Executive Desks
HD conferencing
HD/HD
Corporate PCs
HD/SD
PRIVATE IP / BUSINESS
Including wireless
IP VideoPhones
HD/SD
ONE conference
H.264 SVC (G)
PUBLIC INTERNET
Including wifi
Telepresence
Rooms
HD/HD
MOBILE NETWORKS
3G+, HSDPA
Regular PCs
3G+/HSDPA Mobiles
HD-SD/CIF
Nomad PCs
HD/SD
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Intellectual Property
Extensive – 25 patents
Encoder patents
MCU patents
Hard to circumvent
First team of experts in scalable coding, VoIP and video
conferencing to bring these disciplines together to deal with the
problem
Cover all the essential functions need to replace traditional MCU
in the scalable coding domain
Enforceable
Heavily dependant on client / server interaction – exposed to
network element
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LMI SDK Architecture
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Market Feedback
51 leading companies in
IP PBX
IM
Video conferencing
Web conferencing
Different aspects of the technology evaluated
100% agreed SVC is a great plan
1/3 have an immediate interest and are in evaluation process
No competition identified
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Technical Team
The team includes
12 Ph.D video compression and IP communication
4 former and current editors of MPEG and ITU-T standards
Track record of 70 pending and issued patents in the video compression and
communication space
Brought to market the most widely deployed IP video conferencing solution
Research team:
Alex Eleftheriadis, Chief Scientist, former editor of the MPEG-4 Systems
Thomas Wiegand, Advisory Council, Editor of the H.264/AVC/SVC video
coding standard, Associate Chair of MPEG Video
Henning Schulzrinne, SIP inventor
Michael Horowitz, first to implement H.264 real time codec
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Conclusion
Layered Media provides a definitive solution for internet
based video communication and conferencing
Results go beyond anything possible with traditional
solutions in all measures of price / performance
Technology is provided as easy to integrate SDK
Layered Media developed a wide IPR portfolio for SVCbased video communication
LMI’s team include the world’s leading experts in video
coding and communication
We are committed to apply SVC into any communication
network and device
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If you remember only one thing…
Layered Media developed a novel, unique and standardbased technology with strong intellectual property.
Layered Media is transforming video conferencing by
delivering very high quality at significantly lower cost.
“The future is here. It is just not widely distributed yet.”
- William Gibson
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