Magor Introduces WebRTC Visual Collaboration

Magor Communications, a provider of visual collaboration solutions, today began demonstrating its WebRTC-based visual collaboration application at TeleSpan's Eighth Annual Future of Conferencing Workshop, which takes place until tomorrow, March 8, in Las Vegas. The demonstration will show that any WebRTC user can point their browser to a SIP-based Magor endpoint with a guest URL to establish a real-time visual collaboration session.

This capability is part of the company's goal to extend interoperability capabilities and reach with WebRTC.

The integration of enterprise-grade visual collaboration with Web browsers not only opens up a new opportunity for B2C (business-to-consumer) interactions and cost-effective collaboration for remote office workers, it demonstrates the power and flexibility of WebRTC.

WebRTC is a browser-based real-time communications  — including voice and video chat, as well as file sharing — protocol that doesn't require plugins to run. Currently, Google Chrome is the only browser that officially supports WebRTC, but Mozilla Firefox recently introduced support for the standard in its bleeding edge Aurora and Nightly builds in February, suggesting support should come to the Firefox stable channel soon.

Meanwhile, Magor's visual collaboration is also natively interoperable with Skype, in addition to traditional SIP and h.323 video conferencing systems, without needing a gateway.

Earlier in the year, Magor Communications launched its new Stratus Partner Program in the Netherlands, enabling channel partners in the area to sell the company's cloud-based video conferencing solution to clients.

“We are lining up an array of partners to help serve customers on that scale and we want to engage in discussion with potential European partners at ISE over the next few days,” said Ken Davison, Magor's chief marketing officer and senior vice president of sales, in a statement. “We envision global multinationals making strong gains in productivity through a broader and deeper use of visual collaboration than what has been practical in the static, pre-scheduled video-conferencing room model.”