AliceStreet - 3D Video Conferencing: An Overview

Slide 1: 12 December 2006 Presentation of V2 oIP 1

Slide 2: Agenda … Who are we?  What are we today?  Where are we going?  But first………  2

Slide 3: Operate Alice … Click on Look Button, Move mouse  Click once to get mouse back  Resize the “room” to top half of display  Click Mute audio (or manually disable  your mic) Turn off your PC speakers  Look to Projection screen  Click once to get mouse back  Click on Screen and resize to bottom  half of display…click on Look 3

Slide 4: Who is Alice? - History Address the human interaction of conferencing  95% of audio participants multi task  55% of the communicated message is from non verbal cues Collaboration market   One to one  One to many Video conferencing was to be the  solution? 4

Slide 5: Who is Alice? - Motivation Dissatisfiers of videoconferencing  Location based  Long set up procedures  Complicated to use  Expensive  Very senior/limited use  Poor international connectivity  Poor system integration  Prohibitive bandwidth  Limited business process value 5

Slide 6: Who is Alice? – Design Criteria Easy to use  Human element first  Increase adoption rates  Use existing or anticipated BW norms  Use OTC hardware  Employ open source  Plug in for complimentary app’s  Provide high customer value 6

Slide 7: Who is Alice? – licensing methods Direct licence sales  ASP  Software as a service  7

Slide 8: Who is Alice? – IBM Demand generator   Complimentary to S/T and Notes  Reverse licensing Other $$$ generation   Servers/blades  Server O/S  Lotus middleware  Storage/management solutions  Consulting 8

Slide 9: Who is Alice? – The business Young and innovative  Privately held  Distributed management  Organic growth  Near global representation  200+ installations  Multi market and multi vertical  9

Slide 10: Who is Alice? – Technical Client – Server App.  ActiveX and NAX (post XP and other  client OS’s) I.E and Firefox  WiFi, WiMAX, HSD/UPA, etc.  MS server, others in 2007  H.323  Less 400Kbs user connection  PSTN, SIP and H.323 audio in  10

Slide 11: Who is Alice? – More technical 16 people per meeting  VPN Compatible  Alice On Demand   Notes integration Simultaneous meetings per server  Integration technology  Activity centric compliant  IBM Advanced (Optimized PWIN in  process) 11

Slide 12: Alice – Tomorrow? Connection   DirectXelimination  Bandwidth – cut 40% Server   Recording & playback  Increase # of participants  Firewall transversal  SIP and other protocols  Audio compression/balancing  Mobile interaction 12

Slide 13: Alice – Tomorrow? Client   Auto break out rooms  Formal controls  Integrate key ST CT tools  Port to learning models  Create handouts  Integrate Legacy clients  Add VR for auto view and search  2nd in room screen for other apps  In room graphics customization 13

Slide 14: Alice – Tomorrow? Client   Minimize foot print  Secondlife.com adaption  Replay 3rd party video in room  In room animation 14

Slide 15: AliceStreet - Core Core values  remains a finite resource  Bandwidth  On demand means EASY, not tech easy…but customer easy is a state of action…not just a  Service state of mind 15

Slide 16: Who is Alice? – Today Client server application  Among the lowest (possibly the  lowest) group video delivery Excellent client ROI  Exceptionally quick com tool  Growing partner base  Highly intuitive  IBM adaptable/compatible  99.999 server stability (thanks IBM)  16

Slide 17: Questions … Thank you! 17