Lifesize strengthens its video collaboration solution with Icon 400 and Flex and its Cloud service

The new Icon systems 400 and Icon Flex developed by Lifesize, together with updates to its Cloud video conferencing service, they offer cost-effective and easily scalable video communication that suits all organizations.

Lifesize, division of Logitech, has its new Icon video conferencing systems available 400 e Icon Flex que, in combination with the company's Cloud service, build a simple video solution, Reliable and scalable that adapts to the needs of any meeting room in an organization.

This development responds, as Craig Malloy explains, founder and CEO of Lifesize, because “customers tell us they want a video conferencing system that works, without problems or complications, and that it does not take long to install or require help from the IT department staff. “They use video on mobile and want the same type of simple solution for the office that allows them to connect with anyone from anywhere”.

Solution for small rooms

Lifesize Icon 400, available from 1.999 euros, It is designed for small meeting rooms, with an exceptionally low environmental impact, which maintains the video quality characteristics that the Icon system 600. User control is intuitive and as easy to use as a smartphone, to quickly add audio and video participants to the meeting, as well as easily share content.

Another of its advantages is its simplicity of installation., without requiring assistance from the IT department. To connect it with Lifesize Cloud you only have to follow four steps: connect to power supply, prepare the screen (HDMI), establish any necessary IP connections and enter the Lifesize Cloud username and password.

After this, Icon 400 It supports all forms of communication, whether extraordinary calls from people in the directory with a presence detector, Planned or even impromptu meetings in virtual meeting rooms, with individual and group calls of up to twenty-five participants, on laptops, tablets o smartphones.

When pairing Icon 400 With Lifesize Cloud the organization has multipoint communication capacity to connect various locations or people, securely provide outbound public networks for external calls and perform automatic software updates on the device, thus reducing the workload of IT department staff.

Personal collaboration

Available in March 2015 from 1.599 euros, Lifesize Icon Flex is the video conferencing proposal for companies that already have a personal collaboration application, like Microsoft Lync, Skype, Google Hangouts, Cisco Jabber, WebEx o Citrix GoToMeeting, as the first option to hold your meetings, but can benefit from expanding a small meeting room with a complete solution.

Users simply connect their PC or Mac via USB and Icon Flex captures and processes audio and video to deliver high-quality communication so all participants can see and hear each other clearly..

Icon Flex takes advantage of the Icon design 400 with a business-class finish reminiscent of traditional Lifesize conference classrooms. This system can be configured with a table microphone with Beam Forming technology or with a company telephone.

Lifesize Cloud updates and improvements

Award-winning Lifesize Cloud service makes video meetings easy from anywhere, on any device, so you can easily connect with people or meeting rooms seamlessly..

The new Lifesize Cloud updates, Available next February with annual subscription plans (from 30 euros month/user), They incorporate as improvements the possibility of connecting directly from the Web browser, so the user can make Lifesize Cloud video calls with a single click directly from their Firefox Web browser, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome o Safari.

Besides, offers full integration with existing workflow tools, since the new Chrome extension and Outlook add-on allows the user to schedule video conferences and invite whoever they want directly from Google Calendar or Outlook, without opening the Lifesize Cloud app.

Another improvement is its interoperability with Microsoft Lync, so that any of the more than one hundred million users of this system can participate in meetings hosted on Lifesize Cloud from their Lync client application with a single click.

Para Roopam Jain, director of business communications and collaboration sector Frost & Sullivan, “the massive implementation of video conferencing is now a reality thanks to the confluence of trends in business IT. During this time, vendors have provided video solutions based on a limited perspective and focus. Lifesize makes it possible to deploy video in small meeting rooms in companies of all sizes, with highly effective solutions through its cloud-based service and Icon terminals to meet the demand for an scalable video conferencing system, accessible and easy to use”.