MEETING ROOM is VUGate's continuous presence option for the SuperHub Video PBX product line.  The SuperHub series of real-time multipoint video communication hubs come standard with VUGate's patented "video-follows-voice" for multipoint video calls.  This patented feature provides for an unlimited number of participants in a multipoint videoconference where the participant speaking shows up on every other participants display.  The SuperHub supports an unlimited number of simultaneous multipoint calls using this feature.   For those instances and applications where the participants all wish to see each other simultaneously, VUGate offers Meeting Room, our "continuous presence option", in several versions: Meeting Room 4, Meeting Room 9 and Meeting Room 16 (Meeting Room 16 is available via VUGate's Custom Systems only).

Meeting Room 4

Meeting Room 4 is the most recognizable version of the product line because its basic features are similar to those offered by other vendors in the industry - that is up to four participants in a continuous presence multipoint call.  As with other similar systems, if you only have one Meeting Room 4 installed on your system, you can only have one "continuous presence" session operating at any time.   However, with the VUGate SuperHub you can also have as many "video-follows-voice" multipoint sessions going on simultaneously with the Meeting Room 4 session.  And as an additional feature the VUGate Meeting Room 4 supports the ability to have more than four participants in the "continuous presence" videoconference by providing "video-follows-voice" within one or all four of the "continuous presence" windows - a feature unique to VUGate.  This means that you can have three participants which remain constant in three of the windows, while the fourth window can have 2, 5, 10, 50 or more participants who show up in the window as they speak.   If required, this "video-follows-voice" in the window can be extended to two, three or all four windows.  The Meeting Room 4 implementation also provides the means to route streaming media and/or multicast video to one or more of the windows, while supporting all the previous features listed above.  These Meeting Room features are unique in the industry and provide the user with a more powerful and flexible set of tools to work with in their multipoint video communications applications.

Meeting Room 9

Meeting Room 9 and Meeting Room 16 are additional variations of "continuous presence", which provide a nine window and sixteen window display respectively.  While the sixteen window display is an unusual window configuration there are applications which require such displays.  The nine window configuration is not an unusual configuration for certain applications and is a popular alternative to the Meeting Room 4 - four window implementation.  In addition, Meeting Room 9 and Meeting Room 16 come standard with a "real-time" configuration tool which allows the user to convert the 16 window Meeting Room into a 9 window or 4 window Meeting Room and/or convert a 9 window Meeting Room display into a 4 window Meeting Room.  This means you can have a nine window capability for those large conference requirements and be able to convert to a four window implementation - on-the-fly - for those smaller meetings.  This is another feature unique to VUGate.

Meeting Room 16

Meeting Room 9 and Meeting Room 16 have all the same features and functions described above for Meeting Room 4, just with more "continuous presence" windows!

The VUGate system can support an unlimited number of Meeting Rooms on the SuperHub Video PBX within certain configuration constraints.