The low budget VC systems by AVer Information Inc. (Taiwan) are primarily designed for Education, Medicine, Small and Medium Business (SMB) and are on average 4 - 6 times cheaper than the identical solutions by Polycom and TANDBERG (now Cisco) we supply the Armenian market with for the 9th year already (some installations examples - http://www.alpha.am/site/index.php?go=user_page&do=63 ).
Aver VC Systems have:
Standard Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) resolution video transmission;
The ability to establish both point-to-point and multi point (up to 10 simultaneous users) connections;
The ability to record conferences on USB Flash Drive – for Polycom and Cisco you need to purchase a separate recording server with cost starting at $20K;
Minimum16- x Zoom PTZ Auto Focus camera (except EVC130) - Polycom / Cisco PTZ cameras have only 12-x Zoom lens;
Standard 3-year warranty - separately from the equipment purchase it is mandatory to buy at least one-year warranty for Polycom and Cisco systems costing from several hundred up to several thousand USD;
Work in full accordancewith ITU (International Telecommunication Union) Standard Protocols and are compatible with all existing VC solutions;
User-friendly intuitive interface and are very easy to handle
AVer professional USB cameras:
Have standard Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) resolution video transmission;
Have 12- x Optical Zoom;
Are PTZ Auto Focus devices with Plug & Play function;
Are designed for Software (Polycom, Microsoft Lync, etc.) and Clouds (Skype, Microsoft Lync, Google Hangouts, FaceTime, etc.) based video communications;