FACILITY DETAILS

The GSA-FTS Executive Conference Center will support at least eight different conference rooms, including an executive board room.  Each room can communicate in real time with any of the others.  The board room has many special control and viewing options, including simultaneous interaction capability with up to sixteen remote locations.

The facility will support a number of activities:

• Videoconferencing - for interactive face to face communication

• Business presentations at multiple sites

• Educational meetings and presentations

• Strategic workgroup interactive meetings

• Local business, planning and government meetings

• Full multimedia presentation capabilities

• Production capability for “distance learning” content

• Hub site for streaming media presentations

• Document sharing ability

• Entertainment

There are no inherent limitations on the system regarding transport media.  It is extremely important that the users perceive the room as simple to operate.  The learning curve to operate the room must be kept to a minimum.  There should be very little, if any, user or support technician intervention required to reconfigure the rooms for the typical applications.  There should be multiple modes of operation of the space, again without the need for technician intervention.

 SUMMARY

A state-of-the-art teleconferencing center built by the U.S. Govt. relies upon the CATS^TM video and audio distribution technology from Pragmatic Communications Systems.  The total system design for the teleconferencing center is provided by the PictureTel Corporation.