SILEX: Delivering Natural Video Collaboration

There is such a thing called “natural collaboration” which is nothing but by face-to-face interactions with eye contacts, and it isn't achieved by gathering in front of a wall mounted with a video screen. Over the years several strides were made towards enabling natural collaboration through PC webcams, interactive whiteboards, and professional meeting room cameras. As with each of these systems, the ergonomics and effectiveness of their use was far from ideal. SilexPro, the Chicago-based technology company, offers Silex PTE (Panoramic Telepresence Experience), a Center of Table (CoT) interactive video conferencing device that enables users to truly experience natural collaboration. The device, complete with 3 or 4-way HD cameras & touch screens and a high-fidelity omnidirectional speakerphone, achieves optimum clarity in communication while maintaining visual interaction at the eye level keeping collaborators well within the field of view. Ronald Hajj, CEO of SilexPro puts it this way, “People meet at tables and gather around them, its center becomes the natural focal point for discussion which determines the device's position—at the center of the table.”

The users simply have to place Silex PTE system in the center of the table, sit around it and conduct their local and video meetings in the most natural and productive way. The system comes with the capabilities of both an interactive touchboard and an all-in-one computer, which is perhaps the most organic and well-equipped collaboration tool that enterprises have yet seen. It allows each user around the table to share data from their own devices without the need for a client application, ushering in the Connect Your Own Device (CYOD) trend. The system is available in two options, as Silex PTE Trio, a 3-sided CoT system for six people and as Silex PTE Quattro, a 4-sided CoT system for eight people.