Sony PCS-G50P User Manual

Video Communication System

PCS-G50 PCS-G50P

Sony PCS-G50*1– The Business Tool for Visual Communication

To stay ahead of the pack in today’s tough market, businesses require powerful visual communication tools like the PCS-G50. Sony has combined advanced audio and video technologies with useful features to provide a visual communication tool for all businesses. With the PCS-G50, long distance meetings can be held as if all parties were in the same room, saving the time and trouble of traveling to distant locations for a simple meeting. Providing you with a new and powerful means of communication, the PCS-G50 will be a mainstay for your business.

The PCS-G50 boasts a maximum video transfer rate of 4 Mb/s over an IP network, and it provides extremely high resolution video. By adopting the H.263 video codec/4CIF format, the PCS-G50 produces image resolution comparable to that of standard TV broadcasts. It can also switch to the H.264 video codec for higher throughput or revert to previous versions of the ITU-T videoconferencing codecs to maintain compatibility with legacy systems.

As with other PCS Series models, the PCS-G50, with its internal MCU (Multi-Control Unit) capability, supports simultaneous multi-point videoconferences with six (6) endpoints, and a maximum of 10 endpoints when two PCS-G50 units are cascaded. The PCS-G50 bridges mixed calls between an ISDN network and an IP network, and speed matches (by connecting at the endpoint respective speeds) without lowering the performance of the entire system.

Other key features of the PCS-G50 include a site-name display function and the capability to record audio and video to Memory Stick™ media. The PCS-G50 also incorporates features such as data sharing, QoS support functions, an encryption function, and digital whiteboard support, which are all available in other PCS Series models.

Effective visual communication is vital to move ahead in today’s business. With the featurerich PCS-G50, not only will your visual communication be effective, it will be affordable.

*1Unless otherwise noted, "PCS-G50" in the following text refers to both the PCS-G50 and PCS-G50P.

FEATURES

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High-Quality Video/High-Speed Network Connection

The PCS-G50 provides excellent picture quality over both ISDN (H.320) and IP (H.323) networks and fully supports the latest non-proprietary ITU-T H.264 video codec standard for maximum customer confidence and flexibility. When video encoding is in accordance with the H.263 protocol, the PCS-G50 supports the 4CIF format at a maximum frame rate of 30 fps, and when in H.264 protocol, it supports the interlaced SIF format at 60 fields per second. PCS-G50 can achieve a maximum bandwidth of 4 Mb/s with an IP connection, and up to 768 Kb/s with an ISDN connection using an optional PCSA-B768S ISDN unit. This combination of high-quality codec and high-speed network support provides video quality comparable to standard TV broadcasts.

The PCS-G50P supports a maximum of 50 fields per second in interlaced SIF format.

Multi-Point Videoconferencing at up to 10 Sites Fig 1

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Using optional MCU software, the PCS-G50 can be configured to communicate with up to 5 remote videoconferencing sites (6 sites total) simultaneously using either an IP (H.323 protocol) or ISDN (H.320 protocol) connection. It can also support videoconferences in which the connections are a combination of IP and ISDN using a unique bridging function. And because the PCS-G50 has a “speedmatching” function, it maximizes performance by not reducing the higher speed connection to match the lower speed connection, as is done with some videoconferencing systems. Moreover, two PCS-G50 units - each installed with the optional MCU (H.323) software - can be cascaded with an IP connection to support a maximum of 10 simultaneous sites. What is unique about the PCS-G50 is that it provides high quality, H.264 CIF video and clear MPEG-4 AAC audio, even in a multipoint videoconference. And of course, the PCS-G50 allows users to expand from a peer-to-peer videoconference to a multi-point videoconference by simply dialing up new connections.

When adding a new endpoint on the same network (IP or ISDN), the system will default to the lowest resolution video standard of all endpoints.

Site-Name Display Fig 2

During multi-point videoconferences, it can be difficult to keep track of all of the participants; however, with the PCS-G50 site-name display function, this is no longer the case. The PCS-G50 can display anything from company or branch names to geographical locations on a monitor, allowing videoconference participants to keep track of all parties.

Fig 1 Multi-point Videoconferencing at up to 10 Sites

Fig 2 Site-Name Display

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