hi everybody in this video I'm gonna show you how to connect a Skype camera
directly over Ethernet and this is going to allow us to use a single Ethernet
cable to not only power our PTZ optics camera using the new tech NDI firmware
but connect to them via Skype or GoToMeeting or WebEx over any really
anywhere on your network via all over Ethernet so forget about long USB 3.0
cables and extending USB we can do this all over Ethernet now so first of all
we're gonna be able to access our cameras from anywhere on your network so
if your network is multicast enabled that means you can have it on one laptop
on another laptop any computer on your network can have access to all of the
different cameras on your network assuming that they're NDI enabled next
we can quickly switch between those cameras inside Skype or other meeting
room software so I'm going to show you a driver that is basically a virtual USB
camera you can pull into Skype GoToMeeting your WebEx and then you just
have a little utility driver that allows you to access all of the NDI cameras
available on your network so that you can switch which one you're viewing
through Skype makes it actually really easy to manage right in your taskbar now
the other thing that I just showed I'll show this one more time this is really
amazing it's just a single Ethernet cable for a camera so this is power over
ethernet so as soon as I plug this into a POE switch the camera turns on it's a
single Ethernet cable and it provides video audio camera control PTZ camera
control and video low latency video in our skype web conference call next we're
only going to be using roughly 10 megabits of bandwidth is the maximum
that we are going to be using for high quality 1080p at 60 frames per second
for web conferencing you may only need 720p or 1080p at 30 frames a second
which are even lower bandwidth consumption and because it's multicast
enabled multiple people can be viewing various different pieces of video
content at the same time finally if you your network is multicast enabled this
will work but it's not a requirement so you can use this without multicast only
one can be using it at the same time if
you're doing that so next we want to show you the actual footage of Skype for
business being used with this so as you can see here in Skype for business I'm
gonna go ahead and pull up my tools which is the video device setting and
you can see here I've selected new tech NDI video which is essentially an ndi
hx driver which you can see is nested in my toolbar here and it allows me to
actually go access groups of NDI cameras we'll show in a moment here the ndihx
firmware which allows us to actually access all of that and change
which cameras we're controlling so let me show you the ndi hx firmware and
how to get that once you have an ndi hx camera like the PTZ optics so here
we are at new tech./ndihx /products this is where we can
download the latest version of the firmware you just simply type in your
name first name last name email and the product that you're using the PTZ optics
cameras and then you can click download now and you will get access to the
firmware the firmware includes the virtual camera driver which is what we
were using here i am installing the firmware here just accept the agreement
we have the virtual camera which is what i'm talking about today
studio monitor which allows you to control PTZ of the cameras and access
manager which allows you to group multiple NDI sources together and decide
who gets access to which cameras if you don't want everyone having access to all
the NDI cameras on your network now finally i'd also like to show this
with zoom web conferencing because this does work with goto meeting with WebEx
with skype and i have a quick demonstrations of this working with zoom
as well just to show you how ubiquitous this really is so again the new tech NDI
firmware just shows up as a webcam although it's really a virtual camera so
you can see again nested in my toolbar there the ability to right-click and
change the new tech NDI camera that's available on my network at a click of a
button so it's even it's handled technically outside of Skype for
business zoom GoToMeeting or WebEx you simply
just click the camera that you want to attach to this is so nice for companies
who want to be able to not only easily deploy conference
cameras over Ethernet now no longer needing to run expensive and really
troublesome USB 3.0 extension cabling for high quality 1080p cameras but also
be able to have access to so many different cameras so if you want if
you're a large company and you want to be able to show a camera in your
operations room or in your factory or in your design area inside of a meeting you
can now do that very easily of course you can very easily connect your camera
and again it's extremely low latency so this works perfect for real-time
communication in any web conferencing video conferencing space it also ties
into all kinds of live-streaming in broadcast products that you can learn
more about on our youtube channel and our Facebook page so if you haven't
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PTZopticspals where you can ask questions learn more about this
technology and see other companies just like you using this technology in
various applications so thanks for taking the time to watch this video and
we'll see you next time