NEW DELHI: Business communications and collaboration solutions provider Alcatel Lucent on Monday said it has upgraded its cloud-based video communications platform Rainbow to facilitate improved remote collaboration among large workgroups.
The enhancement of the platform will further improve the collaboration experience for Rainbow users while supporting safe working practices and teamwork during social distancing, said the company in a statement.
The latest version of Rainbow offers a more streamlined design and user experience, aided by an updated professional interface for more efficient interactions. The list of updates further includes--quick action buttons, intuitive icons, and a simplified navigation.
To make the video collaboration platform accessible by all, the new update includes customizable character sizing to increase legibility for visually impaired users and bidirectionality that supports non-Latin-based languages and allows content to be viewed ‘right to left’.
Post-upgrade, Rainbow now offers various video stream layouts with a larger conferencing capability of upto 120 active participants. Active speaker’s video is automatically displayed to all the participants, while the Active Gallery and Active Grid can display up to 12 participants simultaneously.
Rainbow now also comes with integrated audio quality control algorithms to ensure optimal sound quality and alerts the user in case of network quality issues.
Real-time tracking has also been integrated into the platform to monitor audio and video meeting activity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities help regulate participant speaker time.
It now comes with a convenient meeting scheduler that allows one-click instant meeting planning by identifying the availabilities of the conference’s participants. Users can also invite participants from within Rainbow, regardless of whether invitees have a Rainbow account. In addition, users can now remain connected by switching active calls from mobile to laptop seamlessly, or vice-versa.
“Each evolution of the platform ensures that Rainbow continues to be the easy-to-use, flexible and multi-device solution for secured productive collaboration that we designed it to be,” said Moussa Zaghdoud, Executive-Vice President of the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Cloud Communication Business Division.
“The new Rainbow will deliver real added value to our customers and their teams, but we’re not stopping there. We are already working on additional developments, including a Rainbow webinar mode”, said Samuel Tourbot, Head of the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Cloud Business Engine.
Emphasizing on the importance of data security, Zaghdoud said Alcatel is also working on an end-to-end (E2E) encryption model for audio and video conversations for Q4 2020.
He added that Alcatel plans to propose upto 50 simultaneous videos in mosaic mode in addition to adding the ability to host upto 1000 participants by early 2021.
The enhancement of the platform will further improve the collaboration experience for Rainbow users while supporting safe working practices and teamwork during social distancing, said the company in a statement.
The latest version of Rainbow offers a more streamlined design and user experience, aided by an updated professional interface for more efficient interactions. The list of updates further includes--quick action buttons, intuitive icons, and a simplified navigation.
To make the video collaboration platform accessible by all, the new update includes customizable character sizing to increase legibility for visually impaired users and bidirectionality that supports non-Latin-based languages and allows content to be viewed ‘right to left’.
Post-upgrade, Rainbow now offers various video stream layouts with a larger conferencing capability of upto 120 active participants. Active speaker’s video is automatically displayed to all the participants, while the Active Gallery and Active Grid can display up to 12 participants simultaneously.
Rainbow now also comes with integrated audio quality control algorithms to ensure optimal sound quality and alerts the user in case of network quality issues.
Real-time tracking has also been integrated into the platform to monitor audio and video meeting activity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities help regulate participant speaker time.
It now comes with a convenient meeting scheduler that allows one-click instant meeting planning by identifying the availabilities of the conference’s participants. Users can also invite participants from within Rainbow, regardless of whether invitees have a Rainbow account. In addition, users can now remain connected by switching active calls from mobile to laptop seamlessly, or vice-versa.
“Each evolution of the platform ensures that Rainbow continues to be the easy-to-use, flexible and multi-device solution for secured productive collaboration that we designed it to be,” said Moussa Zaghdoud, Executive-Vice President of the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Cloud Communication Business Division.
“The new Rainbow will deliver real added value to our customers and their teams, but we’re not stopping there. We are already working on additional developments, including a Rainbow webinar mode”, said Samuel Tourbot, Head of the Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Cloud Business Engine.
Emphasizing on the importance of data security, Zaghdoud said Alcatel is also working on an end-to-end (E2E) encryption model for audio and video conversations for Q4 2020.
He added that Alcatel plans to propose upto 50 simultaneous videos in mosaic mode in addition to adding the ability to host upto 1000 participants by early 2021.
