GVC-300: India's indigenous IP videophone

BANGALORE, INDIA: Marking a turning point in hardware product development milieu, D-Link (India) Ltd., one of India's premier networking firms, launched an IP videophone, the GVC-300.

The GVC-300, a fully featured and stand-alone videophone (as it does not require computer, television or high bandwidth) with an in-built LCD screen. This will be available in the market from 15 August.

D-Link has also launched its mid-range IP phone- GLV-540, which includes many high-ended features like latest wide band codec for superior voice quality.

Jangoo Dalal, MD & CEO, D-Link (India) Ltd., said: "In India very few companies go into product development. Majority of the hardware products are either assembled or imported, but GVC-300 has been entirely manufactured at our Goa plant."

"GVC-300 integrates with IP phone and IPPBX for medium businesses and would serve as a cost effective communication solution supporting both voice and video. At a time when the best of IP videophones cost anywhere around Rs 75.000 to 1 lakh, D-link will launch this product into the market at Rs 23,000-25,000," Dalal said.

Natarajan, VP - R & D, D-Link (India) Ltd., said: "In this era of cost cutting every company is looking forward to lessen its travel expense. On one hand, broadband is witnessing a boom, which in turn calls for bandwidth hungry killer applications. While, on the other side, cellular growth with 3G operators is in turn boosting video base products.

Moreover, SMB/SME/SOHOS sectors are witnessing a high growth trend, thus traditional communication technologies are paving way for new voice and video communication modes. All these paved way for GVC-300"

Future offing

 "One month down the line we will also feature three party conferencing IP videophone. We also have plans to cater to bulk provisioning for

SMB/SME/SOHO, " Dalal said.

"Around 10,000 videophones will be sold by the end of December 2009 and we also look forward to export these IP videophones.," he added.

Features of GVC-300

RoHS capability (Restriction of Hazardous substance)

SIP standard complaint, interoperable with the SIP servers worldwide

Multi codec support - H. 264, H. 263, H. 263+ AND MPEG-4

Video telephony at a bandwidth as low as 128 Kbps

Audio and video lip synchronisation and privacy options

Tiltable LCD and camera

Video and voice quality on TV for group participants

E. 164 dialing

Logical partitioning support

GVC-300 uses advanced video compression technology and maximises the image and audio quality within the available bandwidth and is ideally suited for business due to features such conferencing and integration with any standard SIP IP-PBX.

Features of GLV-540

Multi user and multi line support

Large graphical LCD

Speakerphone and headphone jack

Power over Ethernet

Dual Ethernet ports with auto-switching

Wideband codec for high quality conference

Message waiting indication