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LifeSize brings Passport to the masses with new small appliance, fits in the palm of your hand.

A good appliance for small business to get Telepresence at a small price.

By Larry Chaffin on Mon, 10/05/09 - 10:12am.
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Today LifeSize announced a new appliance that brings full 720p HD telepresence to the palm of your hand. It is the only HD telepresence appliance to work with Skype. Being that this is a small appliance it will work great with remote workers, workers who travel or even for small businesses. Below is the information on the new Passport which is coming in at a price of less than $2500.

 

  • Delivers 720p 30 frames per second HD video and HD audio.
  • Built-in ringer alerts the user to an incoming call when connected to a multi-purpose display.
  • Supports HD video calls at just 1Mbps over any IP network, and up to 2Mbps maximum bandwidth.
  • Light, compact and easily carried anywhere.
  • 8" width x 4.7" depth x 1.3" height.
  • Weighs less than 1 pound; 2.6 lbs with cables and power supply included.
  • LifeSize Passport is the first HD video communications system with an integrated Skype capability.
  • Enables Skype users to experience Skype-to-Skype calling.
  • Skype presence ensures you always know when your business colleagues or partners are on online and available for a call.
  • LifeSize uses what it calls Adaptive Motion Control (AMC). AMC dynamically adapts to changing network conditions to deliver the highest quality of visual motion control and clarity.

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Larry Chaffin Ph.D is the Chief Executive Officer/Chairman and founder of Pluto Networks, a Consulting and VAR partner specializing in WAN Acceleration, VoIP, WLAN, Telepresence and Security and a Riverbed reseller. Pluto Networks specializes in the needs of small, large and enterprise companies by always giving them a great ROI on the products they sell. Pluto Networks has a presence in 23 countries around the world enabling all of its consultants to be virtual. Larry was a Judge at Interop for the Best of Interop Awards for 2009 and is looking forward to the 2010 awards in Las Vegas.

Larry has also co-authored all of the books listed below:

Managing Cisco Secure Networks, Skype Me, Practical VOIP Security, Configuring Check Point NGX VPN-1/Firewall-1,Configuring Juniper Networks NetScreen & SSG Firewalls,Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security, How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration, Microsoft Vista for IT Security Professionals, Asterisk Hacking, 2008 VoIP and Video Conferencing, Infosecurity 2008 Threat Analysis and author of Building a VOIP Network with Nortel's MS5100, along with co-authoring/ghost writing eleven other technology books for VIOP, WLAN, security and optical technologies. Larry is currently working on a follow up to Building a VoIP network with Nortel's MCS 5100 Book as well as new books on Cisco Telepresence Networks, Practical VoIP case studies and WAN Acceleration with Riverbed.

Larry also has more than 29 vendor certifications and has been working on many others. Larry has been a principal architect around the world in 22 countries for many Fortune 100 companies designing VoIP, security, wireless and optical networks. He has expanded over time also to include application acceleration. Larry is working with worldwide company now out of Asia as a Special Assistant to the CEO and CIO as they go through organizational and network changes, helping them with strategic advice from his years or experience. Pluto Networks is a channel partner of Cisco, ProCurve, LifeSize, Riverbed, Call Copy, Fastsoft and Symantec.