PlaceCam is an application that offers simplicity of operation, seamless and fast collaboration tools, and above all, high quality audio and video available in any video conferencing product.

PlaceCam is equally at home in your corporate office or on your personal PC, mobile or desktop.

The producers are ready to provide for all your corporate needs with this new, stand-alone, PlaceCam package. You can install it in your own IP network and guarantee security of your video communications.

With a VPN, your company's agents will be able to communicate in much more meaningful ways than by telephone or chat.

This application adapts easily to companies both large and small. Special video conferencing rooms in your offices can be a thing of the past. Placecam uses commonly available hardware so you rid yourself of the expense of dedicated video conferencing hardware.

Your conferences can be held right from your users offices, either local or remote. Business travel expenses can be cut drastically!

If you are part of a small group or company for whom server-based video conferencing is just not cost effective, then PlaceCam, with its true
Peer-to-Peer like communication, is for you!

Here are some key features of "PlaceCam":

· Team Work/Project Work
When your project partners work at different locations PlaceCam enables you to realize your project consultations jointly. For instance, you can share Power Point slides or Excel-tables for demonstrations and cooperations with the other participants You don't just save time, you also save money.

· eLearning
· The use of a video conferencing software can increase the effectiveness of education on the job and can reduce overall travel time. Your employees have full access to all the centrally stored streams of all sessions. They have the possibility to recall topics or catch upon failed sessions. So everybody can chose his own learning time and speed individually.

· Network Technology
By our progressive peer to peer technology PlaceCam is capable of managing multi point conferences without a central Multi Conference Unit.

· Collaboration
PlaceCam integrates application sharing and is therefore on ideal tool for joint project orientated work. You can transmit every application to any other participant. Everybody will see your applications and can take control of them.


Requirements:

· AMD Athlon XP or mobile processor with min. 1.3 GHz or Intel Pentium 4 or mobile processor mit min. 1.0 GHz
· 256 MB RAM or more
· Microsoft DirectX v8.0a/8.1 graphics card with good 2D acceleration
· At least 16 MB standard 16 bit full duplex sound card headset (or micro and speaker)
· USB camera, video camera with video capture card or fire wire interface
· For good performance a user requires an Internet Connection with 128 Kbs upload and 768 Kbs. (For example: a Common DSL or Cable Connection)


Limitations:

· 7 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New design
· New video sizes (240x160 pixels, 320x208 on popped out video)
· Application sharing has been changed. The remote application is shown inside the collaboration tab. The video window of the user sharing the application moves to the left below your own video.
· The chat box is always visible (not longer part of the video tab)
· Names are displayed on the videos instead of email addresses changed
· We now have HTTP-Proxy support for login
· Video streams are encrypted with AES-256bit encryption for your security