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We propose a four-dimensional (4D) coded multiband-OFDM scheme suitable for beyond 1.4 Tb/s serial optical transport. The proposed scheme organizes the N-dimensional (ND) signal constellation points in the form of signal matrix; employs 2D-inverse FFT and 2D-FFT to perform modulation and demodulation, respectively; and exploits both orthogonal polarizations. This scheme can fully exploit advantages of OFDM to deal with chromatic dispersion, PMD and PDL effects; and multidimensional signal constellations to improve OSNR sensitivity of conventional optical OFDM. The improvement of 4D-OFDM over corresponding polarization-multiplexed QAM (with the same number of constellation points) ranges from 1.79 dB for 16 signal constellation point-four-dimensional-OFDM (16-4D-OFDM) up to 4.53 dB for 128-4D-OFDM.
1. Introduction
The optical communication systems have been evolving rapidly in recent years in order to adapt to the continuously increasing demand on transmission capacity, coming mainly from the growing popularity of the Internet and multimedia in everyday life. In order to keep the system complexity reasonably low, the new optical communications solutions have to offer affordable upgrades of currently available optical communication systems operating at lower speeds to satisfy the required higher speeds [1]. One such approach was based on multidimensional coded modulation [2–4]. Namely, by increasing the number of dimensions (i.e., the number of orthonormal basis functions), we can increase the aggregate data rate of the system without degrading the bit error rate (BER) performance as long as orthogonality among basis functions is preserved. Most of the papers on multidimensional signal constellations for optical communications so far have been related to single carrier systems.
In this paper, which can be considered as generalization of [4], we describe how to map multidimensional signal constellation points in coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. The key idea is to exploit all advantages of both of OFDM and multidimensional single carrier systems. The multidimensional mapper for OFDM can be described as follows. Let N-dimensional signal constellation point be represented as S = (S (0),S (1),…,S ( N -1)), where S ( l ) (l = 0,…,N-1) is the lth coordinate. Let the duration of the signal frame be M signal constellation points. We can represent the signal constellation points in matrix form, by placing the coordinates of signal constellation points along the columns of a signal matrix. We further apply two-dimensional inverse fast Fourier transform (2D-IFFT) to obtain 2D-IFFT array of complex numbers. The coordinates of complex numbers can be considered as in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) channels, while even and odd rows of two-dimensional array can be mapped to x- and y-polarizations, respectively. The arbitrary N-dimensional (N = 2,3,4,5,…) signal constellation can be used in combination with this scheme. Because in optical channel we have four bases functions (in-phase, quadrature, x-polarization and y-polarization) available, the full advantage of this scheme can be obtained by employing the 4D signal constellations. All other steps of this 2D-OFDM scheme are similar to conventional coherent optical OFDM. On receiver side, we use the conventional polarization-diversity receiver, followed by 2D-FFT demapper. Therefore, this scheme can fully exploit the advantages of OFDM as an efficient way to deal with chromatic dispersion, polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and polarization dependent loss (PDL) effects. At the same time we can exploit the advantages of multidimensional signal constellation to improve the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) sensitivity of conventional optical OFDM dramatically. We also describe a 4D coherent optical multiband-OFDM scheme enabling 1.4 Tb/s serial optical transmission.
The paper is organized as follows. The proposed 4D low-density parity-check (LDPC)-coded OFDM is described in Section 2. In Section 3, we describe the 4D multiband-OFDM as a beyond 1 Tb/s serial optical transport enabling technology. The performance analysis results are provided in Section 4. Finally, some important concluding remarks are given in Section 5.
2. Description of 4D coded optical OFDM
The proposed 4D LDPC-coded optical OFDM system is shown in Fig. 1 . The m independent data streams are encoded using different LDPC (n,kl) codes (l = 1,…,m), where n denotes the codeword length and kl is the information word length of lth component code. The codewords are written row-wise into m × n bit interleaver. The m bits are taken from bit interleaver column-wise at every symbol slot i and are used as input of 4D mapper, which selects one constellation point out of 2m, depending on information content. The 4D mapper is implemented as a look-up table (LUT) with m input bits serving as a memory address that selects the four coordinates of 4D signal constellation point. The outputs of 4D mapper are written column-wise into 4 × M symbol-like interleaver. The content of symbol interleaver can be represented as a two-dimensional array (matrix) as follows:Eq. (2), we use to denote dot product of and as follows . The result of 2D-IDFT block is 2D array of complex numbers:5], and for VLSI implementation an interested reader is referred to [6]. The matrix (3) is further serialized into two vector-streams and . The row-vector is obtained by concatenating even rows in Eq. (3), while the row-vector is obtained by concatenating the odd rows in Eq. (3). The elements of row-vector (row-vector ), namely s x, i = (I x, i Q x, i) [s y, i = (I y, i Q y, i)], corresponding to x- (y-) polarization, are used (after digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion) as inputs to the I/Q modulator as shown in Fig. 2(b) of reference [4]. Alternatively, the polar modulator shown in Fig. 1(c) can be used. The corresponding streams in x- and y-polarizations are multiplexed in polarization beam combiner (PBC) as shown in Fig. 1(c) and transmitted over the optical transmission system of interest. Notice that arbitrary N-dimensional (N = 2,3,4,5,…) signal constellation can be used. Because in optical channel we have four bases functions available, the full advantage of this scheme can be obtained by employing the 4D signal constellations. (The cyclic extension insertion principle and A/D conversion operation are very similar to that in conventional OFDM and as such are not discussed here.)
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At the receiver side, and using the polarization beam splitter (PBS), the optical signal is split into two orthogonal polarizations that are used as input into two balanced coherent detectors. The balanced coherent detectors provide the estimated in-phase and quadrature information for both polarizations. The outputs of the balanced detectors, after A/D conversion, cyclic extension removal and carrier recovery, are processed by 2D-DFT block. Notice that both 2D-IDFT and 2D-DFT can be efficiently calculated based on 2D fast Fourier transform (2D-FFT) algorithm. The simplest 2D-FFT algorithm is based on one-dimensional FFT and requires 2M × Mlog2 M complex multiplications and additions. The complexity of this algorithm is M 4/[2M 2log2 M] times lower than that of direct 2D-DFT computation. Upon the deinterleaving, the symbol log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) are calculated in the a posteriori probability (APP) demapper using the following equation,Eq. (5) into Eq. (4) we obtain:Eq. (8), we use L(c ( t ) j) to denote the LDPC decoder output in current iteration (iteration t). In the above equations denotes the transmitted signal constellation point, R i denotes the received constellation point, and S 0 denotes the referent constellation point. The P(R i|S i), from Eq. (6), denotes the conditional probability that can be estimated by collection of histograms. The bit LLRs L(cj) are determined from symbol LLRs byEq. (9) is performed over all bits of symbol S, selected in the outer summation, for which ck = 0, k≠j. The bit LLRs are forwarded to LDPC decoders, which provide extrinsic bit LLRs for demapper according to Eqs. (8) and (7), and are used as inputs to Eq. (6) as the prior information based on Eq. (7).
Similarly as in conventional coherent optical OFDM systems in quasi-linear regime, the received 4D symbol vector of kth subcarrier in ith OFDM symbol R i , k = [R (0) i , k R (1) i , k R (2) i , k R (3) i , k]T can be represented byEq. (10), N i,k = [N (0) i,k N (1) i,k N (2 )i,k N (3 )i,k]T denotes the noise vector dominantly determined by the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise; ϕ T and ϕ LO denote the laser phase noise processes of transmitting and local lasers, ϕ CD(k) denotes the phase distortion of kth subcarrier due to chromatic dispersion, and H k denotes the channel matrix of kth subcarrier, which is similar to the Jones matrix described in [7,8]. Therefore, the equivalent model of proposed 4D OFDM scheme is similar to that of polarization-multiplexed (PolMux) OFDM, so that similar behavior is expected in terms of chromatic dispersion, PMD and PDL tolerance. As opposed to conventional polarization-multiplexed QAM based OFDM systems that multiplex two independent 2D streams, the proposed scheme is 4D scheme and allows full potential of 4D space to be exploited. For the same symbol energy as in 2D space, in 4D space the Euclidean distance between neighboring constellation points is much larger resulting in much better BER performance. In order words, for the same target BER, the OSNR sensitivity is much better in 4D OFDM as shown in Section 4.
3. Description of 4D optical multiband-OFDM
In order to meet high capacity demands, according to some industry experts, the 1 TbE standard should be available by 2012-2013 [9]. Coherent optical OFDM is one promising pathway towards achieving beyond 1 Tb/s optical transport [10,11]. Initial studies [10,11] indicate that the system Q-factor when multiband OFDM with orthogonal sub-bands is used is low (about 13.2 dB after 1000 km of SMF [11]). Such a low Q-factor represents a very tight margin in terms of 7% overhead for RS(255,239) code, and the use of stronger LDPC codes is advocated in [10,11]. In this section, we describe one potential LDPC-coded multiband 4D-OFDM scheme suitable for beyond 1 Tb/s optical transport.
In Fig. 2, we describe the conceptual diagram for multiplexing/demultiplexing enabling beyond 1 Tb/s Ethernet based on multiband 4D-OFDM. The frame corresponding to 1.4 Tb/s (see Fig. 2(a)) is organized in five OFDM bands, each carrying 280 Gb/s traffic, originating from 128 to 4D-OFDM described in previous section as follows 7 × 0.8 × 50 GS/s. The guard spacing between two neighboring OFDM bands is Δf G = mΔf sc (m is a positive integer), where Δf sc is the subcarrier spacing. Because the central frequencies of neighboring OFDM bands are orthogonal to each other, we may simplify the separation of OFDM bands by anti-aliasing filters, as explained in [10,11]. Every particular input data stream to the 4D-OFDM subsystem carries 40 Gb/s traffic. The 40 Gb/s traffic can originate from either 40 GbE or 10 GbE, when we need to perform RF multiplexing of four 10 GbE streams. The proposed multiplexing/demultiplexing scheme is compatible with 10 GbE, 40GbE and 100 GbE. For example, two 100 GbE and two 40 GbE data streams can be used as input to 4D-OFDM block to generate 280 Gb/s Ethernet traffic. Notice that the proposal due to Shieh [10] is not compatible with 40 GbE because it employs the 100 Gb/s data rate as the baseband rate. Another advantage of the proposed multiplexing/demultiplexing architecture is that it is essentially two-layer architecture (see Fig. 2(b)), while PolMux-based OFDM architecture [10,11] is three-layer architecture. Finally, the proposed architecture is based on 4D signal constellations, while that in [10,11] is based on 2D constellations and has much stringent OSNR sensitivity requirements.
In Fig. 2(b), we describe our proposed two-layer integrated circuit hierarchy. The baseband level, at 40 Gb/s, can be straightforwardly implemented in CMOS ASIC technology, and 40 Gb/s signal can originate either from 40 GbE or 10 GbE as we explained above. The baseband layer can also be combination of 40 GbE and 100 GbE data streams as indicated above. The second layer is the photonics layer, which can be implemented in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) technology [12], and simply requires the integration of five-frequency.
4. Performance analysis
As an illustration of the potential of the proposed scheme, we show in Fig. 3 the BER performance of the LDPC-coded 4D-OFDM schemes for single-band from Fig. 2. The figure shows the BER performance of single band for different 4D signal constellation sizes for symbol rate of 50 GS/s. In the same figure, we compare the BER performance with conventional PolMux QAM-OFDM. The comparison has been done for the same number of signal constellation points. Notice that because we are concerned with OSNR sensitivity only, the intersymbol interference due to chromatic dispersion and PMD is not observed, so that the BER performance of single-carrier and OFDM systems are the same. This is well known textbook material fact, see for example Fig. 3.2 of [13] (QPSK-OFDM) and Fig. 5.2-16 of [14] (single-carrier QPSK). Namely, the key idea of this paper is to introduce minimum changes in conventional PolMux OFDM and multidimensional single-carrier systems, while fully exploiting the potential of 4D space. The number of subcarriers in both OFDM schemes has been set to 128. For the 16-4D constellation, the signal constellation points are selected by ( ± 1, ± 1, ± 1, ± 1). For the 32-4D constellation, 16 constellation points are selected by ( ± ½, ± ½, ± ½, ± ½), 8 as different combinations of ( ± 1,0,0,0) and its permutations, 4 as ( ± 1,0,0, ± 1), and the remaining 4 by (0, ± 1, ± 1,0). On the other hand, for the 64-4D constellation, the 64 possible points are mapped to eight of the twelve non-disjoint even permutations of , where is the golden ratio. In addition to signal constellations described above and introduced in [4], we provide a new signal constellation, namely 128-vertices signal constellation. In this signal constellation, 96 vertices are obtained by taking even permutations of ½( ± 1, ± g r, ± 1/g r,0), and the remaining 32 points are those of the 32-point constellation. We can see that 16-4D-OFDM outperforms PolMux-8-QAM-OFDM by 1.79 dB, 32-4D-OFDM outperforms PolMux-16-QAM-OFDM by 2.14 dB and 64-4D-OFDM outperforms PolMux-32-QAM-OFDM by 2.07 dB, and finally 128-64-4D outperforms PolMux-64-QAM by 4.53dB. The comparison is, therefore, performed for the same number of constellation points.
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5. Conclusion
As response to continuously increasing demands on transmission capacity, we proposed the 4D LDPC-coded multiband-OFDM scheme suitable for beyond 1 Tb/s serial optical transport. The proposed scheme is capable of fully exploiting the advantages of both OFDM and multidimensional signal constellation. Signal constellation points are represented in matrix form by placing coordinates of signal constellation points along columns of signal matrix. We further apply 2D inverse FFT to obtain 2D array of complex numbers. Coordinates of complex numbers correspond to I and Q channels, while even and odd rows of 2D array correspond to x- and y-polarizations, respectively. On receiver side, we use conventional polarization-diversity receiver, followed by 2D-FFT demapper. The simulations results indicate that 16-4D-OFDM outperforms PolMux-8-QAM-OFDM by 1.79 dB, 32-4D-OFDM outperforms PolMux-16-QAM-OFDM by 2.14 dB, 64-4D-OFDM outperforms PolMux-32-QAM-OFDM by 2.07 dB, and 128-4D-OFDM outperforms PolMux-64-QAM by 4.53 dB. Therefore, the proposed scheme can fully exploit advantages of OFDM, to deal with chromatic dispersion, PMD and PDL effects; and multidimensional signal constellations to improve significantly the OSNR sensitivity of conventional optical OFDM systems. We also described the multiband 4D-OFDM scheme enabling 1.4 Tb/s serial optical transport.
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants CCF-0952711 and ECCS-0725405; through NSF CIAN ERC Center for Integrated Access Network under grant EEC-0812072; and in part by NEC Labs.
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SUMMARY This addon makes several changes to bots to make them act more like human players and make them more reliable as teammates. They can use melee weapons, rescue you if you die, react quicker to a teammate being attacked by a special infected and much more. Note: While this addon does improve the bots, it doesn't make them perfect. There is no way for me to fix every issue with the bots, but I have improved them in the areas that are possible. I realize they still aren't ideal teammates. FEATURES • Bots can use melee weapons. • Bots will continue to play after you have died instead of ending the game. • Bots will react much faster to a player being attacked by a special zombie. • Bots can perform some simple actions, such as closing safe room doors. • Bots will move around a player instead of shooting through them. • Bots are much more likely to save their first aid kits for a player. • Bots will try to stay in a tighter group with the player. NOTES • Works for all official game modes. • This addon doesn't block Steam achievements. • This version of the addon is ideal for single player, multiplayer with bots or servers. SUPPORT I try to offer quick support for all of my addons. If you have any issues or questions, please post a comment and I will respond as soon as I can.
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master_loquendo April 2016
with addon bots can move themselves without a human player ? I need to practice in versus
bazrael October 2015
What are original meaning of coopBL and coopDF in gamemodes.txt? (Or similiar ones such as versusBL and versusDF.)
winged_box February 2015
My server always restart at Death Toll from map 2 onwards when people were playing, the problem was solved after I removed this vpk file.
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Can you modify this to make bots have a preference for melee weapon over guns? They always grab the guns instead.
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Great improvements Bot's are in general more intelligent Added things Valve should've added In general it was a great addon worth the DL
Nothing that I'd noticed
All and all it's a great addon worth the download at anytime and this man deserves ALOT of credit for this fantastic addon.
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Bot use melee! Bot wait their friend! Alternative to Survivor AI Trigger fix (SourceMod Plugins)
Bot don't know how to press button for finale, for example Dark Carnival.
It more nicer if bot know to start finale and crescendo, Can use as Versus co-op training!
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- Bots can go without the player - We can play Versus, Realism, Survival and Scavenge Offline - When I'm attacked, they react faster than usually
- Not a really good Main Menu - We can't play Scavenge totally since bots don't use the Gascans - We can't play Best of Five in Scavenge - Bots do not pick up Bombs - They don't go by themselves (I am still the one who leads)
In case, this is a nice addon even if it needs some changes, but still it's good.
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Bot continue after I die. bot can close doors safe room. companion bot react when attacked by a special infected.
bot are bad using melee. still locking in places and not jump in some places. they do not always open some doors and teleports.
This is great because it helps to improve the behavior of the bots. But in the simple version (the bots will not take off) should get that melee and not progressing and stolen. But it's a great job, thanks.
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McCain picks forty-something "hockey mom" as running mate
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MC Cain picks Iris Robinson as a running mate — or as good as. Fuck if they get in we can look forward to even more of G W Bush. What a disaster that would be?
I wonder how many gay people would describe themselves as "friends" of this bigot. If she doesn't respect and support your relationship with your partner, and understand WHY you want to marry, she has the empathy of a stump, and isn't really the sort of person to associate with socially
Then again apYrs, have you ever met a gay Republican? It's like they're openly gay yet in the closet all at once. . .
Although I am completely in opposition to agenda that espoused here on this site I must say that your reporting is, for the most part, fair and impartial. Nice to see some "just the facts" reporting.
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Governor Palin is as a hunting& shooting woman(kill what you can)
"Governor Palin opposes abortion rights (KILL THEM babies AFTER birth)and supports the death penalty (Kill grown-ups, not 8 weeks humen cells?) and Alaska's ban on gay marriage (Kill the hope of equality for all people)."
Every man and woman that thinks all peolple are equals and support gay people MUST say NO!NO!NO! to this bigot in "hockeymom" disguise!
Oh, come on and give the woman a chance, people!! Don't judge her before her actions! This woman is incredible, in my opinion!
To rise to the heights of the second-most powerful person in the world despite a life-history of misery and torment is surely to be lauded – showing us all that a person's past need not affect their future?
The woman comes from a single-parent family; a mother forced into crime to provide for her child.
A dependence on alcohol and a vast array of both illegal and prescription drugs.
Her open attitude toward the LGBT society; even to the point of living a completely ambisexual lifestyle; str8, gay, part-time dominatrix.
A late/ex/missing husband's torments throughout her marriage.
I am further inspired that there IS life in a post-Will&Grace world!!!
(That IS a picture of Senator McCain and Karen Walker, isn't it?)
This selection will further demonstrate the incompetence of the past 8 years of fascist policies. This woman brings absolutely no credentials to the part of hate's ticket. It will stop McCain from accusing Obama of having no experience. She is also under investigation for misuse of office. She had a state trooper fired who was involved in a custody case with her sister, among other things. If McCain thinks by selecting her to run with him thereby attracting some of Hillary's supporters, he's dead wrong. Hillary's supporters are pro-choice (a woman's right to choose if she wants an abortion). Sarah Palin is a pro-lifer. This was a huge strategic blunder for McCain and I'm glad. It will only polarize moderate conservative women within his party, a few of whom support pro-choice.
She's like McCain but female. McCain better hope she makes speeches better than him because his "speech voice" is just annoying. I can understand why they don't sound like real people, being "neo-liberals" facists and everything, but why don't they look like real people? They look sort of artificial and computer animated.
She has a record of action to be judged by, it is not a pretty picture. check http://www.bentalaska.com
She also believes that if a mother faces a life threatening situation if she does not have an abortion, then its ok for the mother to die provided the fetus can survive. How moronic can it get? But that's republican politics for you, a party of absolutism, oppression, hate and kow-towing to evangelical christo-fascist cults. Their way or the highway!
My congratulations to the Democratic Party, my Democrat-voting American friends, to the United States in general and to a world which must continue to live with the most powerful country on Earth. By adopting this woman as his running-mate, Senator McCain has gone a step further to placing the keys to the Executive Mansion in the hands of Senator Obama.
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Despite clean audits and steps forward in improving financial management, deficiencies in internal controls still plague the Internal Revenue Service, according to a Government Accountability Office report released June 6.
The GAO said at the beginning of the audit of IRS' fiscal 2005 financial statement, 84 financial management-related recommendations from prior audits remained open because the IRS had not adequately addressed them. During the audit, the GAO was able to close 34; however, the GAO made 22 new recommendations.
Through the analysis, the GAO found that 29 recommendations, or 40 percent of the open cases, related to the IRS' lack of effective controls over safeguarding and securing assets, the report states. To do so, the GAO recommends keeping physical control over vulnerable assets and controlling information processing. It also recommends restricting and making people accountable for resources and records.
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Cloud analytics is dramatically altering business intelligence. Some businesses will capitalize on these promising new technologies and gain key insights that'll help them gain competitive advantage. And others won't. Whether you're a business leader, an IT manager, or an analyst, we want to help you and the people you need to influence with a free copy of "Cloud Analytics for Dummies," the essential guide to this explosive new space for business intelligence.
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You think you know what's in your data. But do you? Most organizations are now aware of the business intelligence represented by their data. Data science stands to take this to a level you never thought of – literally. The techniques of data science, when used with the capabilities of Big Data technologies, can make connections you had not yet imagined, helping you discover new insights and ask new questions of your data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Sarbjit Sarkaria, data science team lead ...
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WebRTC is bringing significant change to the communications landscape that will bridge the worlds of web and telephony, making the Internet the new standard for communications. Cloud9 took the road less traveled and used WebRTC to create a downloadable enterprise-grade communications platform that is changing the communication dynamic in the financial sector. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Leo Papadopoulos, CTO of Cloud9, discussed the importance of WebRTC and how it enables companies to focus...
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Qosmos has announced new milestones in the detection of encrypted traffic and in protocol signature coverage. Qosmos latest software can accurately classify traffic encrypted with SSL/TLS (e.g., Google, Facebook, WhatsApp), P2P traffic (e.g., BitTorrent, MuTorrent, Vuze), and Skype, while preserving the privacy of communication content. These new classification techniques mean that traffic optimization, policy enforcement, and user experience are largely unaffected by encryption. In respect wit...
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ReadyTalk has expanded the capabilities of the FoxDen collaboration platform announced late last year to include FoxDen Connect, an in-room video collaboration experience that launches with a single touch. With FoxDen Connect, users can now not only engage in HD video conferencing between iOS and Android mobile devices or Chrome browsers, but also set up in-person meeting rooms for video interactions. A host's mobile device automatically recognizes the presence of a meeting room via beacon tech...
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