UAEU have three locations equipped with Polycom Architected Telepresence Experience (ATX300)
systems on campus at C3, H3 and F3 buildings. The rooms are featured with a seating capacity of 6
and equipped with 3 large plasma screens, 3 HD cameras, 3 table top pop up screens and multiple
input connectivity for presentations. This solution delivers a high quality communication
experience which allows users to collaborate with peers around the world for academic and
research pursuits with a real life size interaction. Thus, it can save time and reduce travel costs.
These rooms are interconnected, which join with other participants from outside, and share
contents for Educational meetings or collaborative research benefits through the internet 2
(Ankabut) connectivity for their professional interactions.
UAEU Telepresence Service
The development of new technology has resulted in a new term for videoconferencing : telepres-
ence. Telepresence is a set of technologies that work interactively to give participants in a video-
conferencing session the feeling of being present in a location where they are not. Telepresence
systems are highly integrated multi-codec, multi-monitor, multi-microphone and multi-channel
speaker systems which support high bandwidth and provide HD quality audio and video with
immersive experience. The objective of Telepresence is to present interactive video and audio
between locations with near lifelike audio quality and with near life-size video images.
December 2015
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