Video Conferencing’s Silver Lining June 2012
Jun 09, 2015
Video Conferencing’s Silver Lining June 2012
Video Conferencing Has Evolved…
1964 AT&T
Picturephone
1982 CLI Room system
$250K+
1987
PictureTel hits market
Room System $80,000
1998 Polycom debuts
“appliance based” video systems
$12,000
2001 Tandberg 1000
Integrated system $7500
2005
LifeSize First HD video
$12,000
2006 Cisco
Telepresence
2011
Mobile video
ISDN/H.320 IP/H.323/SIP
…yet It’s Not Ubiquitous.
Complex Incompatible Expensive
1) Meetings happen mostly over audio
2) Video mostly used intra-company
3) B2B video needs“switchboard” assistance
Please don’t ask about Skype….
In 2010 there were: ~80 Billion audio conferencing minutes used ~200 Million video conferencing minutes used
--Wainhouse Research
What video system will they
be using?
Business Video Still in Switchboard Era
We will need to do a test call tomorrow.
The Time is Right for Pervasive Video
• Facebook Video Calling • Google Hangouts
• Video savvy workforce • Consumerization of IT • Video chat culture
• Increasingly difficult • Expensive • Not effective use of time
“49 million tablets in the enterprise by 2015… video collaboration has become a key customer requirement.”
-- Frost & Sullivan
§ Founded in December of 2009 § Founders questioned why video conferencing has not become pervasive
§ Industry “outsiders”-- bringing a fresh perspective to what was needed
“You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it”
--Albert Einstein
§ Backed by Top Venture Firms with Proven Success § Accel Partners
§ New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
§ Norwest Venture Partners
The Blue Jeans Opportunity
The World’s Most Powerful MCU…in the Cloud
Transcoding HD 720p30
Software based
Multi-party Distributed architecture
Redundancy
Subscription based Operating expense
B2B / B2C Multi-device
Multi-protocol
Easy
Open
Flexible
Effective
Scalable
Affordable
Interoperable
Quality
2000s Intranet Computing
Today Cloud Collaboration
Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise SharePoint, File Sharing
1980’s Work Group Computing
The Cloud is Here!
“Video Infrastructure as a Service dramatically reduces the cost of supporting multi-party conferencing. It will become a prerequisite for the support of pervasive video in the enterprise…”
--Scott Morrison, Managing Vice President, Gartner, Inc.
Immediate Deployment
No Hardware Infrastructure
No Ongoing Maintenance Fees
User Managed
Scale Up / Scale Down
Productivity Anywhere
Redundant
Operating Expense
Cloud Services = 46% Lower TCO1 On Premises Infrastructure = Hidden Costs
Hardware Consultants
Infrastructure
Dedicated Staff Upgrades
Licenses
1Source: Yankee Group: Hosted vs. Premise based Sales Solutions: TCO and Trade Offs
The Silver Lining
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words 15 port HD MCU: $175,000
Installation: $ 10,000
Annual maintenance: $ 25,000
Annual power/cooling: $ 5,000
Executive desktop systems: $ 24,000
Desktop clients/server: $ 21,000
Room systems: $ 30,000
Enabling one 15-way video call: $290,000
VS.
1 Unlimited Blue Jeans Account (25 participants)
$ 599/mo.
PRICELESS
“When Microsoft bought Skype last year, the idea of Skype everywhere
including the corporate offices became a reality.” -- GigaOm
Conference Rooms H.323 video systems
Everyone else Telecommuters, Remote Workers, Travellers, Partners, Consumers
The Killer App: Interoperability
Blue Jeans Welcomes a New Member to the Family…
In addition to having the industry’s broadest range of interoperability across devices/platforms Blue Jeans now supports the web browser! • Internet Explorer • Chrome • Safari • Firefox
Ryan Goodenough Director of Communications at NYSARC, Inc.
Blue Jeans' new browser access option is exactly what we've been waiting for! It makes joining a video meeting painless for participants and requires less support from IT to make it work. Great job Blue Jeans!” “
Benefits of The Client-Less Option
ü Invited participants always have an easy (and fast) option to connect to a Blue Jeans meeting from their desktop/laptop
ü Works w/ all major browsers (Safari, IE, Chrome, Firefox)
ü Works w/ corporate Firewalls “as-is” (no special ports to open = no IT involvement)
ü Tight integration w/ Blue Jeans web app (tighter in the future)
ü Better, more consistent quality / performance w/ Blue Jeans
ü One throat to choke (can’t blame issues on third party client)
1 2 3
Pick a plan Schedule your
meeting Click to join Meet with anyone
Minutes
Unlimited
Ports
H.323, Skype, Google, Lync, Laptops, Tablets, Smart Phones
Blue Jeans as Easy as 1-2-3
Participant Interface
• Participant list • Mute audio/video • Drop participant(s) • Change layouts • Lock meeting • Screen sharing
Group Admin Interface
• User management -- (add, remove, edit) • Security settings • Meeting use/reporting
Feature Rich Care-Free Video Conferencing
§ Supports the widest range of devices
§ Business class video systems (H.323) to Web browser, Skype, Google, Lync, Cisco TelePresence…
§ It just works
Why Customers Choose Blue Jeans
§ No expensive
hardware required
§ Buy for needs, not maximum capacity
§ Self-serve, reservationless meetings
§ Pay for what you use
Desktop/Mobile Strategy
§ Instant desktop and
mobile support included
§ BYOD (bring your own device)
§ Join meetings from where you are
Interoperability Multi-party (MCU) Desktop/Mobile
Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award 2012
15 Networking and Data Center Upstarts To Look at Right Now
What People Are Saying About Us…
“The beauty of Blue Jeans is that there’s no new infrastructure to buy or software to download”
“With all of these new capabilities, Blue Jeans is raising the bar in video conferencing services”
-‐Company Enterprise
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Appendix
Growing Footprint
BJN meetings have connected participants from >2,000 cities in >150 countries….
New Architecture Enables Scalability
Theirs
Key Enabler: Multi core x86 processors
Ours
“Rack and Stack” Scalable (clustering) Fixed Configurations
Flexible Development Platform Proprietary Hardware and OS
Rapid Price/Performance Growth (Moore’s Law) Slow Price/Performance Growth
Low Cost Expensive
Complicated DSP / FPGA Standard CPU