Pexip Infinity version 11 features and specifications

• Software-based, virtualized application architecture, running on industry-standard servers.
• Management using industry-standard tools, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, KVM and Xen, and the ability to deploy onto generic hypervisors and orchestration layers.
• Ability to deploy on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Flexible deployment model allowing customers to deploy the platform in the way that is most appropriate for them without needing to consume additional software licenses or purchase dedicated hardware.
• Ability to seamlessly increase capacity by deploying new, updated, or additional hardware resources.
• Management API supporting configuration, status reporting and call control.
• Support for Russian and Chinese language in the Pexip Infinity Administrator interface.

• Efficient distribution to reduce bandwidth consumption over expensive WANs.
• Industry-leading resilience and redundancy capabilities.
• A flexible licensing model that allows you to pool conference resources and quickly increase capacity in response to current local requirements.
• Able to overflow capacity between nodes and locations, providing support for conferences that span multiple physical boxes.
• Keeps media as local to each endpoint as possible, reducing the negative impacts of latency, jitter, and packet loss commonly experienced on centralized deployments.

• Upscaling all connected participants to provide a seamless experience to all.
• Ability to respond dynamically to fluctuating network conditions by downspeeding and upspeeding individual participants, and support for endpoint-based packet loss recovery and adaptation methodologies (such as packet loss concealment and dynamically adapting bandwidth), thereby protecting the user experience in the event of information loss.
• Bandwidth-optimized content sharing towards Infinity Connect clients for crisp image at low bandwidth.
• Full support for individual transcoding and transrating of both main stream video and audio, and dual stream content.
• Simple conference management and interaction for conference participants using Infinity Connect clients, including the ability for Host participants to add, disconnect, mute and unmute other participants.
• Advanced conference management and interaction for administrators (using the web-based Administrator interface).
• Optional tagging of services to allow service providers to track VMR use in CDRs and logs.

• Virtual Meeting Rooms providing personal meeting spaces for everyone within the organization. VMRs can be bulk-provisioned from directory information contained in a Windows Active Directory LDAP server, or any other LDAP-accessible database.
• Virtual Auditoriums designed to hold larger lecture-style conferences.
• Virtual Reception IVR (Interactive Voice Response) service.
• Pexip Distributed Gateway enables endpoints to make point-to-point calls to other endpoints that use different protocols and media formats (e.g. from Lync / Skype for Business or WebRTC to H.323). Includes DTMF support.
• Choice of layouts: main speaker only; main speaker + 7 PIPs; main speaker + 21 PIPs (see Selecting the layout seen by participants for more information).
• Conference participants can chat and share messaging content.
• Can output a dedicated multimedia stream to enterprise CDN (Content Delivery Network) streaming and recording services such as Wowza, Adobe, VBrick, and Microsoft Azure, and to public streaming services such as YouTube.
• Ability to PIN-protect conferences and differentiate between Hosts and Guests.
• Ability to lock a conference to prevent any further participants from joining.
• Ability to limit the number of participants in a conference, on a per-conference basis.
• Ability to limit the bandwidth used by each participant, on a per-conference basis.
• Ability to re-brand with your own images and voice prompts, on a per-conference basis.
• Ability to re-brand the Infinity Connect experience.
• Ability to integrate Infinity Connect (WebRTC/RTMP) functionality with third-party applications and websites via a front-end SDK.
• Call policy decisions can be taken by an external system.

• Full support for existing industry-standard protocols (SIP, H.323), as well as other technologies (HTML5, Microsoft Lync, Skype for Business, RTMP, WebRTC, Skype).
• Easy integration with existing SIP and H.323 call control solutions including Cisco UCM, Cisco VCS, Polycom CMA, Polycom DMA, Avaya Aura, Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013, Skype for Business and others.
• Conferencing Nodes can act as SIP registrars and as H.323 gatekeepers.
• Support for automatic call escalation using Multiway (Cisco VCS), call transfer capability (Cisco UCM), and CCCP to a Microsoft AVMCU.
• Support for presence and customizable avatar published to a Microsoft Lync / Skype for Business client.
• Support for automatic dial-out to audio bridges, including automatically issuing conference aliases and pass codes via DTMF tone generation.
• IPv4 and IPv6 support.
• Ability to tag management, call signaling, and media packets independently with DSCP QoS support.
• Support for Forward Error Correction (FEC), downspeeding, bandwidth throttling, and other packet loss concealment technologies.

• Support for static NAT.
• Support for static routes.
• Support for far-end NAT traversal (media latching).
• Support for media over a TCP connection to assist with firewall traversal.

• Can be used to join conferences as a full audio/video participant, an audio-only participant, or as a presentation and control only participant.
• Can be used to make point-to-point calls in conjunction with the Pexip Distributed Gateway.
• Provides conference control to Host participants.
• Allows participants to share content whether or not they are using Infinity Connect as their video endpoint. (Infinity Connect via Chrome and Infinity Connect desktop client users can share their screen in addition to sharing images and PDFs.)
• Chat (Instant Messaging) support.
• Supports sending of DTMF tones.
• Access to this feature can be administratively disabled.

• Allows participants to join a Virtual Meeting Room or Virtual Auditorium, or make a call via the Pexip Distributed Gateway, using a web browser as their video endpoint.

Supported in:

• Google Chrome version 43 and later
• Mozilla Firefox version 38 and later
• Opera version 23 and later
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 10 and later (requires Flash Player 11 and later ActiveX® plug-in, and must not be in Compatibility View)
• Microsoft Edge version 20.10240 and later
• Apple Safari version 6 and later (Mac OS X only) (requires Flash Player 11 and later plug-in)

• Allows a participant to join a Virtual Meeting Room or Virtual Auditorium, or make a call via the Pexip Distributed Gateway, using a lightweight client on any PC with any operating system.
• Allows users to register their clients in order to receive incoming calls.

Supported on:

• Microsoft Windows 7 and later
• Mac OS X 10.7 and later
• Ubuntu Linux

• H.323
• SIP
• WebRTC
• RTMP
• Microsoft Lync / Skype for Business
• Individual protocols can be administratively enabled and disabled.

• G.711(a/µ)
• G.719 (this product is covered by patent rights licensed from Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• G.722
• G.722.1, G.722.1 Annex C (licensed from Polycom®)
• Siren7™, Siren14™ (licensed from Polycom®)
• G.729, G.729A, G.729B
• Opus
• SILK
• MPEG-4 AAC-LD (MPEG-4 video technology licensed by Fraunhofer IIS)

• Speex

• AAC-LC

• H.261
• H.263, H.263++
• H.264 (Constrained Baseline Profile and Baseline Profile), H.264 SVC (UCIF Profiles 0, 1)
• VP8
• Flash video (for Internet Explorer and Safari browser support)
• RTVideo (licensed from Microsoft®).

• H.239 (for H.323)
• BFCP (for SIP)
• RDP (for Microsoft Lync / Skype for Business)
• VP8 (for WebRTC high framerate)
• JPG (for apps and web).

• Connections from 8 kbps per participant (G.729, audio-only), up to 6 Mbps per participant (will vary depending on the deployment environment, video resolutions, etc.).

Conferencing Nodes

• We recommend Intel Xeon E5-2600 series (Haswell architecture) or similar Xeon processors from 2012 or later, 2.3 GHz or faster.
• We recommend 10-12 physical cores per socket.

Management Node

• Any processor, 2.0 GHz or faster.
• 2 cores.

Conferencing Nodes

Dependent on the number of CPUs, but generally:

• Minimum 2 GB of RAM per Conferencing Node, plus 2 GB per host.
• We recommend 1 GB (or more) RAM per physical core.

Management Node

• Minimum 4 GB RAM for the Management Node.

• Host servers do not require any specific hardware cards or GPUs.

• The Pexip Infinity VMs are delivered as VM images (.ova etc) to be run directly on the hypervisor. No OS should be installed.

• Gigabit Ethernet connectivity is strongly recommended.
• In general, you can expect 0.5-3 Mbps per port, depending on call control setup.

• Pexip Infinity Conferencing Nodes and Management Nodes may share the same physical host.
• Pexip nodes may also share the same physical host with other virtual machines.
• Pexip virtual machines must be configured with dedicated CPU and memory resources, i.e. Pexip virtual machines do not support oversubscription.

• Version 11 of the Pexip Infinity platform supports VMware vSphere ESXi 4.1, 5.x and 6.0, although we recommend ESXi 5.5 or 6.0.
• We recommend at least the Standard edition.
• The Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions have additional features that can be taken advantage of by Pexip Infinity in larger deployments.
• The Pexip Infinity platform will run on the free edition of vSphere Hypervisor. However, this edition has a number of limitations that mean we do not recommend its use except in smaller deployments, or test or demo environments. Notably, automatic deployment of Conferencing Nodes is not supported.

• The Pexip Infinity platform supports Microsoft Hyper-V in the form of Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 and later, and Windows Server 2012 and later.

• Pexip Infinity requires your KVM environment to include Linux kernel 3.10.0 or later, and QEMU 1.5.0 or later. This means the following distributions: Debian 8, RHEL 7, SLES 12, or Ubuntu 14.04 (or later, where appropriate).

• Pexip Infinity requires Xen 4.2 and later.