A Test Drive of the Damaka Amadeo Mobile Collaboration Platform
The world is waiting with baited breath for videoconferencing to finally go mobile. Texas-based Damaka claims to have taken videoconferencing beyond its traditional conference room / desktop limitations and onto your favorite mobile device.
Damaka’s flagship product is the Amadeo visual collaboration platform consisting of software clients designed for a wide range of mobile operating systems and devices. Once loaded, the Amadeo client allows the user to leverage his device’s integrated camera and cellular or Wi-Fi data network to conduct SIP-based, peer-to-peer communication sessions with other Damaka users. The Amadeo line also includes a PC version of the software client.
According to the company, key features of the Amadeo product line include:
* Multi-party audio and videoconferencing
* Integrated desktop and application sharing
* Integrated presence and instant messaging (IM)
* Ability to operate across numerous devices / operating systems (Android, iPhone / iPad, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Windows PC, etc.)
* Ability to operate across numerous networks (Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G (WIMAX, LTE))
* Ability to hand-off calls from PC to handheld devices without disconnection (a capability Damaka refers to as “sweeping”)
In Q3 2010, the Wainhouse Research (WR) test team performed a top-level assessment of the Damaka Amadeo Mobile Collaboration Platform. To facilitate WR’s testing of the Amadeo solution, Damaka visited WR’s Atlanta test lab and then loaned WR two devices (an Apple iPhone 4 and an HTC EVO) preloaded with the Amadeo software.
See the just released “A Test Drive of the Damaka Amadeo Mobile Collaboration Platform,” available FREE to VCP subscribers, for the results of WR’s quick look at Damaka’s novel approach to mobile videoconferencing.
