Intel cloud conference solution allows you to easily hold meetings at home

In recent years, remote work and online collaboration have become the new normal for more and more companies. At the same time, the trend of "cloud SOHO" (Small Office, Home Office) has become increasingly prominent.

Remote work is a common form of office work, and it is also developing as enterprises become more digitalized. Hibi Research data shows that the mobile office market size was 5.37 billion yuan in 2012, and it soared to 19.44 billion yuan in 2017. It will grow to 47.83 billion yuan in 2020, and will continue to grow by more than 30% in the next few years.

Enterprise remote office systems face challenges

Video conferencing is an important part of remote work, and most companies have deployed their own video conferencing systems. However, when companies face large-scale conference demands in a short period of time, or are forced to launch a business continuity plan (BCP), the number of online participants, convenience, and security requirements of video conferencing will put forward higher requirements for remote office systems, such as:

Enterprise video conferencing places higher demands on the fluency, completeness, clarity, and security of information interaction. Technically speaking, it requires low latency, anti-packet loss, and anti-jitter.

Many companies are unable to deploy a large number of devices in a short period of time. Cloud video conferencing services are deployed in the company's public cloud, so it is necessary to meet the need to quickly complete the deployment by installing the corresponding software on personal devices.

Due to the inability to work in a centralized location, compared to traditional video conferencing, each employee will become a participant, with a need for audio and video processing, increasing pressure on servers and terminals, and a sharp increase in processing power requirements. It is necessary to solve problems such as large access delays and video stream card problems.

Cloud video conferencing solutions are cost-effective

Faced with these complex demands, cloud video conferencing systems have become the most economical and efficient choice for enterprises.

In fact, in the development process of remote office systems, the form of video conferencing has undergone two iterations, hard video conferencing and soft video conferencing. With the development of cloud computing, cloud video conferencing came into being and is in its early stages of development. Video conferencing providers led by Zoom are booming.  

Cloud video conferencing is centered on cloud computing. Enterprises do not need to purchase MCUs (multi-point control units), do not need to undergo large-scale network reconstruction, and do not need to hire professional IT personnel. Instead, service providers arrange cloud computing centers to provide services to enterprises in a SaaS model, enabling multi-party video communication in conference rooms, on computers, and on the move.

Compared with the pain points of hardware video conferencing, the advantages of cloud video are more prominent: the SaaS model is rented on a monthly basis, with low cost investment, less than 1/10 of the cost of hardware video conferencing, supports most smart devices, and accessing meetings is simple and fast; no dedicated maintenance is required.

For enterprises, the use of cloud video conferencing systems can achieve zero deployment, save operating costs, and enable meetings anytime and anywhere through full platform access, improve work efficiency, and improve remote collaboration.

Intel has also cooperated with many Intel platform video conferencing partners, such as DingTalk, H3C, Zoom, Suirui, Teampro, CVTE/Maxhub, Hisense, Hony/Newline, etc., to jointly promote the development of cloud conferencing solutions.

Intel supports remote work systems

From the server perspective, Intel processors have powerful general performance, stability, reliability, and strong compatibility, which facilitates rapid deployment and expansion; they have high data bandwidth, strong forwarding capabilities, and low latency; they also have high security and can protect customer privacy.

In terms of terminals, from the perspective of enterprise operation and maintenance, the strong compatibility of Intel processors facilitates deployment by enterprise users without the need for professional IT personnel support, and the rich IO supports rapid expansion of peripherals (such as different cameras, mics, speakers, screens, etc.), quickly building an efficient and comfortable environment; the Windows platform is easy to combine with the OA system, which is convenient and easy to use, highly secure, and conducive to IT management. From the actual operation of video conferencing, Intel processors can handle the encoding and decoding of multiple audio and video channels at the same time, easily facing more than 16 participants, and support 4K@60FPS video processing and display; Intel MSDK can call the video encoding and decoding engine of Intel GPU, which greatly improves the encoding and decoding efficiency, occupies less CPU overhead, and can support more participants, allowing the device to handle other work content while holding a meeting, which is conducive to multi-project processing.

Currently, Intel is using its leading cloud-to-end technology to meet the increasingly complex needs of enterprises for remote collaboration, especially cloud conferencing. In the future, Intel will continue to build a comprehensive smart conference solution with its cloud-to-end software and hardware advantages and leading ecological "circle of friends", thereby effectively improving corporate office efficiency and accelerating the realization of enterprises' beautiful vision of collaborative office in the process of digital transformation.