Global (VSAT) satellite and terrestrial connectivity provider, Emerging Markets Communications® (EMC) announced today that the U.S. Patent Office has granted the company its 17th patent, extending EMC’s portfolio of value-added services to its customers.
Launched in 2011, EMC’s HD Connect Satellite service is a breakthrough in tele-presence and videoconferencing, enabling high quality, cost-effective, collaboration between businesses in the most remote and harsh locations in the world.
“EMC is continually focused on developing innovative, patented, technology to give our customers the flexibility, scalability and communications performance to improve productivity,” said Abel Avellan, CEO, Emerging Markets Communications. “Many of our customers are operating in rural, high-risk areas that prevent safe travel and collaboration between key executives and decision makers. HD Connect tele- presence provides a cost-effective alternative to travelling hard-to-reach areas with a high quality experience.”
HD Connect customers include global enterprises, oil and gas companies, governments, and NGOs operating in Africa, Middle East, Asia and South America.
Historically, video conferencing and tele-presence services were expensive and performed poorly over satellite. This patented technology solves the traditional challenges associated with using video over satellite, delivering high quality, low jitter and packet loss, connections with a steady latency for an excellent, unparalleled video conferencing experience.
The patent number 8,384,758 is for “video management system over satellite” and is described as a system that dynamically allocates satellite bandwidth and other network resources to establish a high definition video conferencing call, on-demand.
HD Connect Tele-Presence Enables:
- Availability: Secure, mission-critical, end-to-end high quality video communications deployable anywhere on the planet.
- Affordability: A revolutionary ‘pay as you go’ service where users only pay for the bandwidth that is used, packaged with bundled hours of monthly usage.
- High Quality Performance: Low jitter, low packet loss with predictable and steady latency for excellent videoconferencing experiences
- Ease-of-Use: Delivered via a browser in bandwidth multiples of 1MB and 5MB, the user simply goes to a portal, turns on the system and operates the videoconferencing system
- Speed of Service: Circuit turn-on takes less than 30 seconds
- Single Vendor: Providing customers the ability to interact with just one vendor to reach over 140 countries eliminates the need to depend on the local infrastructure for power and communications outside the region. Since EMC owns the entire network, EMC is a single solution provider for all satellite-served areas.
Emerging Markets Communications® is ISO 9001 certified and is the only provider to deliver a fully integrated, end-to-end hardware solution, with 27 support centers to guarantee maximum uptime of mission-critical applications and record maintenance services.