iVisit combines instant messaging, audio and video conferencing and online collaboration into one application making it ideal for everyday communication and collaboration among people working on projects.

iVisit is not just for work. You can use iVisit to stay in touch with your family and friends. Imagine

iVisit lets parents talk, see and keep tabs on their kids while they are off to college.

Use your PC or your cell phone to attend meetings and collaborate on projects from anywhere.

iVisit offers multi-party Audio and Video conferencing over the Internet (IP). Depending on your bandwidth you can host 4-16 people conferences. Larger than 8 conferences are best achieved in a Local area network. iVisit supports windows, Mac’s and windows mobile PDA devices.

The iVisit client and server will not allow any communication without strong authentication. The authentication scheme is based on Kerberos-like tickets, using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption. This is unlike email, which makes it very easy for a sender to masquerade as another user.

iVisit offers built in echo suppression to improve the quality of your audio.

iVisit server controls the log on process so users can log on from any machine with their username and password without limitation to their license.

Multi-party conferences occurs in meeting rooms. Up to 16 people (depending on bandwidth) meet simultaneously in iVisit conference rooms.

iVisit’s Presence technology makes it possible to recognize when users in your social network are online. Each user can control their availability. You can also indicate that you are offline and still get prompted when someone is trying to reach you.

iVisit offers public and private chat rooms. Each chat room is presented and managed in its own window.

iVisit sharing includes presentations, applications and co-browsing. The presentation mode loads the presentation on each participant desktop for a faster and better experience. Additionally the presentation and user videos are managed by the application allowing the participants to easily view the presentation and navigate the participant videos in a separate pane.

iVisit offers remote control capabilities where any user can either extend or request control of the presenters desktop. Additionally users can block a video and control the audio communication by using the Push to talk mode.

iVisit presentations are pre-loaded on every participants desktop once connection is established allowing for instant navigation of presentation slides. Additionally each participant can now independently browse the presentation slides at will.

Each participant window offers a set of audio and video controls for both sending messages and controlling communication during meetings.

In Multi-Party conferences iVisit automatically detects and activates the speaker window over other participants. During presentations all videos are stacked and tabbed. Each user can navigate the participants in a room. The speaker will always automatically pop on top.

iVisit supports 4 video sizes, thumbnail (80 x 60), small (160 x 120), medium (320 x 240) and large (640 x 480). You can easily choose the right size depending on your needs.

iVisit is designed to be highly sensitive to the impact it may have on the other users and applications sharing the network. Unlike other real time audio/video applications that may blast away at whatever data rate you select, iVisit continually monitors network performance, and adjusts it's transmission rate accordingly. This focus on being a good network citizen comes partly from the experience of iVisit developers in the early 90's, when a single user running a poorly configured application could saturate the entire link between Europe and the US, and there was discussion of banning this type of application entirely.

Responsible for user authentication and identifying the Connection Initiation Manager (CIM) address of a given user.At install / configuration you supply a master admin account password; iVisit creates the first 'Super User' on the system 'Admin' which is then used to create all other types of account.Functions & abilities:

• - To ban a user from the server
• - To broadcast a message to server, room or listing
• - To create a link/alias from one part of the CDS to another
• - To create CDS administrators
• - All the abilities of a CDS administrator

Responsible for maintaining awareness of the user's current IP address and online status, acts as middle-main for initiation of peer-to-peer connections, manages user messaging.

Manages rooms, listings, and other means by which users make themselves visible to strangers. Created by UDS admin these users have full control of the user community directory and can manage subgroups within an organization.Functions & abilities:

• - Create, edit or delete neighborhoods, homes, rooms, listings and texts
• - Add server announcement, Add Info text to neighborhood or home
• - Hide or lock (turn invisible) neighborhoods, homes, rooms and listings
• - Edit or delete a link to a user home, ban a user home from a neighborhood
• - Remove or ban users from homes and neighborhoods
• - Create new Moderators for home

Replicates and forwards media and data streams for multiparty and broadcast sessions. (Available Q2 2008) otherwise all media for multiparty connections is managed by the iVisit™ Client Software in a Peer-2-Peer fashion.

Pentium 90 MHz, 16 MB RAM, and an Internet connection. iVisit is highly optimized to require very little processing allowing users to run other processing intensive applications while communicating from the same computer using iVisit.

PowerPC or Intel Processor, OSX 10.2 or greater, 20MB free RAM

- Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT, XP , Vista
- Mac OSX 10.2
- Linux

- ISDN or Broadband
- Performance gracefully scales to available bandwidth
- Operates over most firewalls and NATs
- Requires UDP port 9940 to be open to secure bidirectional traffic to work with routers and over firewalls

Works with most cameras, microphones and headsets. However cameras do effect the performance of video transfer and we recommend the following cameras for best performance.
- Logitech